We started with 12 teams and now have 27! I prefer live NLHE tournaments and go to Vegas twice a year to play in those. I still participate in the CardsChat league that I started exactly 10 years ago. I love to jump into fun games online with CardsChat members when I have the time. How about your own personal involvement in the game? Do you still play poker regularly and if so what games? We will be making a splash at the Colossus again this year! More and more of our members try to make it to live events now and we have a great team event during the WSOP every year. What do you see as the future of online poker and live poker especially in America? What is the vibe that you get from the members of CardsChat?Īlmost nine years later (after poker's Black Friday on April 15, 2011) American members are still holding out hope that they’ll be able to play online again at big sites like PokerStars, but we’ll just have to settle for one state at a time for now. Others include Evan Jarvis, Dara O’Kearney, Collin Moshman and Katie Dozier, not to mention our very own CardsChat poker experts. Jeff Gross is another poker pro who takes time out of his busy schedule to visit the forum. Ryan Laplante - a WSOP bracelet winner - regularly spends time at CardsChat assisting members. Yes – members were very excited when you started that thread! Here is the link to my recent "Ask Me Anything" On CardsChat by the way. I understand that you have several well known poker pros posting on CardsChat now as well? I even did an “Ask Me Anything” thread just recently on CardsChat myself! We welcome players of all levels – beginners, intermediate and advanced – there’s a place for everyone at CardsChat! We’re dedicated to providing a sense of ‘family’ and belonging to our users. Our members make lifelong friends and acquaintances from all over the world. We pride ourselves on the strong sense of community that our members feel. What sort of community can somebody expect when they join CardsChat? We also have a strong focus on community events – we offer our members over $15k a month in freerolls, leagues, leaderboards and special events prizes. Our members know they can discuss poker in a friendly environment and not get discouraged by negative responses. What do you think separates CardsChat from every other poker forum out there? I am personally a big fan of CardsChat and I have been posting on there for close to a decade now. I became the forum administrator in 2009 when we had 50,000 members and we have since then continued a steady growth. The founder Nick wanted to provide a friendly and open space for players who were looking to discuss all things poker.īy the end of 2006 CardsChat had over 15,000 members we doubled that to over 30,000 in 2007! I am happy today to bring on the long time CardsChat forum administrator Debi O'Neill to explain what it is that separates CardsChat from all the rest.Īnd furthermore, why the CardsChat community continues to see steady growth, while most other poker forums are clearly in decline at this point.Ĭould you please give a brief history of CardsChat, how the community and the site began, and your involvement in it?ĬardsChat launched in late 2004 and I joined the forum in late 2006. In fact, I have been a member there for nearly a decade now, and it is the only poker forum (besides my own), which I continue to post at. However, there is one poker forum that clearly bucks this trend and stands out from all the rest in my opinion. In fact, this is precisely the reason why very few big name poker pros even bother posting on many of these poker forums anymore. This really prevents useful discussion and a positive learning environment in my opinion, which is kind of the whole point of a poker forum! As many of you know, I have been a vocal critic of some poker forums over the years, due to what I feel are unnecessary amounts of negativity, trolling and the like.
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