Poker.com
Poker.com Basic Information
Poker.com Overview
Residing on the most sought after 'poker' related domain name in existence, Poker.com is an online poker and casino information portal website with thousands of pages of information about all aspects of poker. Poker.com has gone through many changes and has exchanged hands for millions of dollars in its history, which we will recount here.
Poker.com Main Sections
Poker.com has nine major sections:
Online Poker – Online poker guide and poker room reviews including the best poker rooms for specific countries.
Poker Store – A poker store that sells physical poker products including poker apparel, poker DVDs, poker software, poker books, and poker cards and equipment.
Tournaments – Poker.com cover all the major live poker tournaments including the WSOP, EPT, WPT, and several other major tournament series.
Games & Rules – A section covering the basic rules and strategy for the popular poker variations and their more obscure offspring including such classics as "Pregnant Threes" and "Honky Tonk."
Tutorials – Poker.com has written tutorials for everything from 'how to build a poker table' to 'calculating pot odds.'
People – Poker professionals and celebrities are profiled. At the time of this writing, 38 poker players are profiled, all of which are live tournament professionals.
Poker Culture – The 'poker culture' section at poker.com consists of a poker glossary which contains 278 poker term definitions, poker wallpaper, and a poker links page with some solid poker websites listed.
Poker Blog – A poker news blog that appears to be updated every 3-7 days.
Poker Forum – A relatively inactive poker forum that has dozens of categories, but only 1,526 threads, 3,204 posts, despite having 35,331 members. It appears that the forum was most active in late 2008.
Poker.com Content
Poker.com's strength is its abundance of varied content. While it does not excel in any one area, it has good basic poker strategy, rules and tutorials. Poker.com obviously strives to be a one-stop shop for poker information, and in that mission, it succeeds. The www.poker.com website could be updated more often though. An example is at the time of this writing (Nov. 4, 2009), they have a list of the past five WSOP winners, and the latest year listed is 2007, while the winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker was crowned almost one year ago.
For a beginning poker player, or one that that is new to online poker and gambling in general, poker.com is a solid resource.
Poker.com History
Poker.com was originally registered in December 1998, making it the oldest poker-related domain name on the internet, as well as one of the most valuable domain names on the entire internet. In 2001, just before the online poker boom, Poker.com was sold for $100,000. Six years later in 2007, Poker.com was sold for a whopping $27 million, making it the most expensive domain name sale in history, beating porn.com's selling price of $9.5 million.
Until the domain sale in 2007, Poker.com operated as an online poker operator. Shortly after the domain name was sold, all Poker.com players were transferred to PDCPoker.com and Poker.com became a poker information portal. Ranking #1 with an authority site listing in Google, Poker.com can do anything it wants and rank #1 for the most profitable search term on the planet.
