Blogging about Poker: 4 Tips

Blogging about Poker: 4 Tips
Blogging about Poker: 4 Tips
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Have you considered starting a poker blog? As the poker fandom keeps expanding and the chance for coverage keeps growing with the tournaments attracting fans from around the world, there is more of a need than ever for coverage of the sport. The once niche game is now mainstream, and yet you wouldn’t know it from the coverage.

If that sounds like something you’d like to weigh in on, now is the time. Take a look at our top tips for getting your poker blog off the ground.

Make sure you know what you are talking about

This is likely to be the case if you are looking to start a blog around poker, but you will need to really know the ins and outs of poker playing to write about it. Trying to express why a hand is so shocking to a game is the basis of the narrative, and if you get people lost on the details, your blog will be incomprehensible.

There are a lot of strategies for poker. Take the complicated elements and learn to put them simply for the reader. This is the basis of all sports commentary. Taking elaborate mixes of planned strategies and instinctive reflexes and making a digestible narrative for your readers to feast on. Everything is a story.

Pick the right platform

There are a lot of places you can create your blog on the internet. Website builders are the best option. The likes of WIX, WordPress, Squarespace, etc. all offer a range of features to help you get your blog off the ground.

WIX in particular is the technophobe option. It has a friendly interface that will walk you through all the more technical aspects of running a website, and you can add features as you go. Obviously, your site will need a blog, but there are also options to add a forum to get in touch with you, templates to nail down your design and more features are modded into existence every day.

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Follow all the action

If you’re interested in poker, chances are you’re going to want to know what is happening in the tournaments. But poker fans want to know equally who the up-and-coming players are and who are the best of the best. For the best of the best, you’d be better off keeping a close eye on the World Series of Poker but look out for smaller tournaments and online tournaments for the stars that don’t have the follower numbers.

But don’t just stick to the tournaments. A big part of the culture of poker fandom is the lifestyle. Make sure you are following the professionals who aren’t entering the WSOP every year. You can find a few Twitch streamers online, who have accumulated a large following with vlogging, streaming, and other content about their life as professional poker players.

But learn to diversify too. You’d be surprised what kind of audience traditional games like poker pull in. You can play blackjack, roulette or even bet on sports with the 32Red sports bet site.

Learn to market yourself

Running a blog is akin to being an influencer, in that your content is the thing that will bring income, which means you will need to market it.

But don’t just set up your Twitter and call it a day. Poker fans aren’t likely to swim in the same circles as, say, a beauty influencer. Spread yourself amongst the more niche social media platforms to expand your reach.

Instagram is a good option even if it’s not niche, since a lot of the professional poker players use it to showcase their lifestyle, with a demographic that is following but look into Reddit too. Browse the Reddit poker forums for chances to showcase your poker knowledge and coverage.

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