{"id":499,"date":"2009-06-07T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T02:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=499"},"modified":"2009-06-07T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T02:45:53","slug":"poker-and-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Poker And Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You would not think that the most used tool of a poker player would be Twitter but it seems that is the case these days especially since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldseriesofpoker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WSOP<\/a> (World Series Of Poker) is well under way in Vegas right now and goes for another 5 weeks or so. Just about every poker pro and any other poker player are using Twitter to update their status during tournaments with their chip counts, hands and other miscellaneous stuff going on.<\/p>\n<p>Poker news outlets are also using Twitter to get their updates out and they are building sites and tools around Twitter. For example, see <a href=\"http:\/\/tweet.pkrrd.com\/nation\" target=\"_blank\">PokerRoad Nation<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23nation\" target=\"_blank\">#nation<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wsop.pkr.com\" target=\"_blank\">PKR Poker<\/a> is live streaming a lot of the action that will not be televised and they stream Twitter messages across the screen that are sent to their address (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/WSOPLive\" target=\"_blank\">@WSOPLive<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_500\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-500\" title=\"PKR Live Stream\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vlcsnap-13136658-300x200.png\" alt=\"PKR Live Stream\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vlcsnap-13136658-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vlcsnap-13136658.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PKR Live Stream<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is a feed of some Poker tweets:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/js\/listbadge.js\"><!--\n{\"pipe_id\":\"6lGC4r4u3hG6bOZMDoSbGg\",\"_btype\":\"list\",\"width\":\"100%\",\"height\":\"400\"}\n\/\/ --><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would not think that the most used tool of a poker player would be Twitter but it seems that is the case these days especially since the WSOP (World Series Of Poker) is well under way in Vegas right now and goes for another 5 weeks or so. Just about every poker pro and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[148,223,147,80,146,145],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-pkr-poker","tag-poker","tag-pokerroad","tag-twitter","tag-world-series-of-poker","tag-wsop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}