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Joeingram1 United States. Dec 22 2013 04:19. Posts 943

What's going on guys, I am having an impossible time actually writing anything for the past few weeks so I am making myself write about the project/idea/website thats been in my head for the last bunch of months. After I started writing about drug experiences and shot taking and about my time spent in Vancouver I thought I could figure out a better way to write about all this degen stuff I've spent the last 6 years of my poker career doing.

I was listening to a podcast interview a few days later and realized I never listen to anything poker related on podcasts anymore and for the most part most of the content out there, strategy or of a more entertaining nature is not very interesting. I think this is to be expected as poker in america isn't what it used to be when poker road, poker after dark, hsp, etc was going on and alot of different people were talking poker all the time.

I thought about it a bit more and realized I love love poker and its basically been my life for along time now and the only poker site I really ever go to anymore is twoplustwo which is basically a place you go when you want to talk about nothing of any substance. Through some type magic I then came up with the idea to build a site that poker players would be able to go that could have entertaining interviews, poker (PLOOO) strategy podcast, an in depth view into what its like to be a high stakes poker player who travels the world and randomly decides to go on week long benders (rage). From that point the wheels started going crazy in my head and I started brainstorming on the type of things I could write about, youtube videos I could make, things I could talk about on podcasts, and then I started working on building the website.

When I started using wordpress I was a bit annoyed that I couldn't do some things I wanted to do with basic themes so naturally I decided that I would study html, css, and some php and build my own theme and be able to customize everything exactly how I wanted. I also thought that learning more about programming and getting started down that path could help me eventually get into learning how to build my own programs for poker. At this point I realized how much I was neglecting actually playing poker so I went back to 10 hour days for about a month and kinda forgot about the idea.

Learning all this new language for programming I wouldn't classify as difficult but rather very time consuming. Friends have asked me why I don't just pay someone to do all this and play poker instead but all of this is really interesting to me and something I want to learn. I've never been the best with balancing 2 really big things at the same time and it seems like when I am working on this, I'm not really playing poker at all. Right now all I really need to get the website launched is this little thing known as content. I haven't been able to write anything at all or even get into the zone to write anything and when this whole idea is generated from the things in my head, it is problem.

This is all a pretty basic introduction to it and with that said I will make myself write another blog post explaining the website a bit more

Joey

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Last edit: 22/12/2013 04:23

Silver_nz New Zealand. Dec 22 2013 05:09. Posts 5647

Good on ya for putting in the focus to learn even though you could easily hire

FrinkX United States. Dec 22 2013 08:07. Posts 7562

sounds like a fun idea

wouldnt be hard to find people to contribute lol

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morph1 Sierra Leone. Dec 22 2013 13:33. Posts 2352

cool idea man... keep updating

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hiems United States. Dec 22 2013 14:55. Posts 2979

poker updates imo.

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GameOverNoob Canada. Dec 23 2013 14:43. Posts 961

Content it king. Your website is the last thing you should focus on. If you're spending time on a website, you're wasting it.

There's really no need to learn php anymore. Programming is awesome but you can't build anything worthwhile with php and html5.

Buy a premium theme and customize AFTER you've created 100 unique pieces of content. Until then, use whatever website, and get as much feedback as possible so you can iterate your work.

You should read content strategy for the web, and check out feverbee.com

@lehgoboy

TimDawg

United States. Dec 23 2013 20:33. Posts 10197

You should interview WCG and ask him almost all non poker related questions

Would be really entertaining I think

online bob is actually a pretty smart person, not at all like the creepy fucker that sits in the sofa telling me he does nasty shit to me when im asleep - pinball

Joeingram1 United States. Dec 27 2013 07:08. Posts 943

On December 23 2013 13:43 GameOverNoob wrote:
Content it king. Your website is the last thing you should focus on. If you're spending time on a website, you're wasting it.

There's really no need to learn php anymore. Programming is awesome but you can't build anything worthwhile with php and html5.

Buy a premium theme and customize AFTER you've created 100 unique pieces of content. Until then, use whatever website, and get as much feedback as possible so you can iterate your work.

You should read content strategy for the web, and check out feverbee.com

Thank you for this post and it is something I completely agree on. For a period of time I was really focusing on the idea of coding my entire website and put the content on the back of my mind but I think I have some amazing content to share and since my last post have been refocused on putting together items I can go to launch with

THanks for the link

On December 23 2013 19:33 TimDawg wrote:
You should interview WCG and ask him almost all non poker related questions

Would be really entertaining I think

Me and Doug have a really fun idea planned