4 King Poker
4 King Poker Basic Information
4 King Poker Overview
Launched in 2004, 4KingPoker is a poker forum dedicated web site that features information on learning online poker, popular poker web sites, bonus information and strategy. According to the web site developer, Scrawnybob, 4KingPoker was established to help online poker players save money playing online and avoid costly but frequent beginner mistakes. 4KingPoker also gains a great deal of trust from members of the site due to its realistic approach to some of the dangers of becoming too involved in online poker for real money. In fact, the bottom navigation of each page includes a link to the Gambler's Anonymous International Service Office.
4KingPoker Main Sections
Most visitors of 4KingPoker.com will distinguish two main sections - the web site article content and the poker forum. By far, the forum is the most visited portion of the web site and draws almost the entire site traffic. The poker forum can be accessed using the top navigation bar, clicking Poker Forums. The poker forum is very active with the most popular threads being those with general poker chat and information for beginners to online poker. The forum is home to more than 8,300 different poker threads and more than 73,600 different posts. Many loyal site visitors have been members of the forum since the site was launched in 2004.
The main content section of the site is actually a group of many different sections. However, the layout problems with the site can pose a problem with distinguishing the different content sections as they seem to simply have been added wherever they fit as the site continued to grow. In fact, many links on the homepage of the site are listed several different times on the same page as they fit in different sections. This can make determining all of the different main sections of the site nearly impossible - especially with the absence of a site map link. Still, most visitors to 4KingPoker are visitors to the forum, which is well organized and well populated to provide answers to your questions within only a few hours.
4KingPoker Content
The quality of the content at 4KingPoker poses the largest problem with the web site (ignoring forum posts by members, of course). Many articles are written poorly with little attention to grammar or spelling. For the casual Internet reader, this might not be as distracting as it is for a thorough reader. The quality of the content actually shifts from page to page - signaling that multiple levels of writers have worked on the web site over the years. Punctuation is usually incorrect and the content is, at times, a little too conversational using American slang language and words such as "gonna," "ain't" and "mak'em." While this type of writing may make sense to many American readers, English as a second language visitors may have some difficulty reading many of the pages on the site.
What 4KingPoker.com lacks in writing quality it makes up for in information. All of the articles on the site provide some very good information about poker rules and strategies that you can trust to provide you with the right information about the related topic. Of course, drawing conclusions from a forum can be a dangerous activity unless the information is backed up by a reasonable source. The forum content provides a healthy balance between useful posts of good advice and simple posts where writers will criticize a poker room without giving any additional information or reasons - something that can be a frequent problem with other forums.
4KingPoker Site Navigation
The top navigation bar at 4KingPoker is very easy to use. Clicking on each tab opens up a page of content describing the basic concepts of the section and providing a bit of information as well as a set of sub tabs with more detailed information about the topic. For example, the tab Learn to Play Poker opens up a set of other tabs that include Rules, Poker Hands, Starting Hands, Position, Flop and Turn & River. In order to navigate back to the home page, you can simply click the top web site banner. Clicking the Poker Forums tab takes you to the main focus of the site, the more than 9,000 member forum that is laid out with a variety of helpful threads and topics.
Although the main focus of the web site is the well established forum, other pages on the web site, particularly the home page, can be quite a task to navigate. Rather than using more navigation tabs, the site designer decided to use the home page to include a great deal of separate groups of links and information that will lead to further pages of the site. There are also some strange design decisions on some tabs. For example, by clicking on the Poker News tab on the 4KingPoker.com top site navigation bar, you are given access to an additional tab including an odds calculator. This sort of inclusion makes perfect sense in the strategy section but seems like a last minute add on in the news section.
