I think the most effective site for poker news is PokerRoad. While other sites provide an abundance of poker content, I feel PokerRoad differentiates themselves by bringing the average fan closer to poker professionals using PokerRoad Nation, Red Pro Strategy forums, and Blogfessionals.
While PokerNews has a Twitter page following the pros, PokerRoad does it in a unique away allowing fans to become apart of the PokerRoad Nation by including #nation in their tweets. This helps brings fans closer and makes them feel apart of the poker community.
All of the sites have poker forums but PokerRoad's Red Pro Strategy Forum are unique and different from the others. This forum allows for in depth analysis of certain poker situations without all of the noise from other users. It allows the fans and regular poker players to get into the minds of the professionals. By including a shadow forum for regular users, this doesn't alienate regular users either. So, I think this was a great unique idea that PokerRoad has come up with.
Also, PokerNews and Card Player both have blogs but once again PokerRoad has done something different by providing blogs as well as video blogs which they call Blogfessionals. We've all heard the adage "A picture is worth a thousand words", well I feel that a video is worth a thousand pictures. By providing this video blog, users are instantly connected with the poker professionals who are video blogging.
PokerRoad may not have some of the other content that PokerNews and Card Player provides but it does bring something new to the table. It may not have the detailed tracking of PokerNews or detailed player results like Card Player; however, PokerRoad does a great job of providing new and unique content to poker news bringing poker fans and players closer to the poker professionals.
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