K9Poker - Social Networking Joins Hands with Poker

Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 27, 2007 -- Two huge movements have swept across the American pop culture landscape in the past few years- online social networking and the popularity of poker. A new web site, K9Poker.com, attempts to bring these two concepts together.

Social networking websites such as MySpace and YouTube have become main stream and are two of the most widely visited websites on the internet. The corporate establishment is recognizing the value of these websites and betting on them as important marketing vehicles. In 2006, News Corp purchased Intermix Media Inc., owner of the popular MySpace.com for the sum of $580 million. More recently, Google bought out the ever popular video sharing website, YouTube.com, for $1.65 billion.

The mainstreaming of poker has been fostered by the popularity of The World Series of Poker event, the World Poker Tour series and the advent of online poker web sites like Partypoker.com. ComScore Media Metrix - which measures all U.S. Internet users at home, work and college locations -- reports more than 29.1 million monthly unique visitors to online gambling sites. Even with the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, playing poker remains one of the most popular recreational activities in the US and worldwide.

K9Poker.com, started by two amateur poker players, was created to connect people together through their common interest in poker. There are thousands of home games, poker tournaments, and players in cities all across US listed on this web site with new listings entered everyday. Poker players can use K9Poker.com to post a poker profile, establish a personal network of poker friends, search for local home games and tournaments, write blogs, find useful poker information, discuss poker, and much more.

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