It's amazing, 12 games left - just 12 games in the Euro 2008! And I am running so hot in our betting promotion - Not! I actually regard myself as a fan, I saw every big championship since 1990, I was a and still am a big fan of Hamburg, I saw like 150 games live in some arenas all over Germay, I even was lucky enough to see the game Argentina vs. Ivory Coast back in 2006, but I really suck this time, 27 points until now. 20 games - 27 points, the best scorer allready has 46 points - mission impossible!? We'll see, but surely my bets have to improve a lot to attact the Top10.  If you're in a better position don't forget to place your (favorite=!?) results for the upcoming matches starting on thursday!

But beside I can also anounce a new blog coming up soon... I hope and think you will like it - even though in the beginning it might just be interesting for our german community since it will be german. One of our Community Manager publish a "trip report" in the last month and I really want him to participate in this blog cause his report was just great. Not just because what he wrote but how he wrote makes me think that it will be a nice new member for the german blogs.  On the other hand we will push some new foreign blogs in the next days aswell. "Behind the scene" is a good title, but it won't be in english... Peut-etre francais? My french su**s. I know there's a "^" missing right?! Whatever, it might be the french community, it might be any other, check our local dealer for more information!

Good luck!

Benido 

In the next days, we will reach another nice milestone – even though it has mere psychological but real value.

We will reach 30,000,000 page impressions over the last 30 days for the first time, an average of 1,000,000 page impressions every day!

Especially when looking back a year, this is an enormous development: we didn't even scratch 10,000,000 monthly page impressions back then. Besides reaching a broader audience, this development is also coming from what the average visitor does on our page. The average number of pages viewed per visit grew from 5.X to nearly 9 in May!

I hope that we can increase our quality and the attractiveness of our content and community further within the next months. I already teased a little about one of the exciting things to come, and can present a new screenshot of it: 

If you wonder: the above title is just a variation of a line from the song Fire Water Burn by The Bloodhound Gang. For the first time in our history, PokerStrategy.com has a higher Alexa Traffic Rank than the big old poker forums twoplustwo.com.

This is quite a success if you consider that twoplustwo.com started in 2002, while we did in 2005 – plus that the US is the leading home market of poker, whilst our strongest languages like German, Russian, French, and Hungarian only began to feel a kind of poker boom in '06-'07.

If you click on this graph, you will get directly to this comparison at Alexa.com where you can play around or add a third poker website. 

Add-on to my last blog post:

I sadly forgot to include the Hungarian top poster list of 2008! Sorry for that, dear Ernö! As a compensation, I hereby present their Top25!

2008 is just five months old – and we already have a lot of members with more than thousand posts in our community. Even I was astonished by the sheer amount of activity some of our great members show in the forums.

To give you a piece of infotainment, I got together the Top10 of the most active forum posters from January 1 until June 1. A day not too far away will even bring such fun facts to the homepage of PokerStrategy.com: we are already planning for extensions on our ranking page!

The overall #1 spot does by the way not go to a German member, but to gabriel1, an important motor of our Spanish forums. Congratulations! :) 

Today I'm bugtesting the second minor pre-release of our future social network.

As you can see on the picture, everything is pretty without design, yet – and of course only a small part of the features are realized and there are plenty of bugs.

But hey, at least it's something! And it is even called 0.2, with the version number trying to be linear with the progress. So 20% of the work until the first release should be done already.

I'm very curious about the way we all here at PokerStrategy.com will use such an advanced way of communicating and presenting ourselves and how it will improve our community and learning experience!

Be honest: aren't you also looking forward to having a buddy list, a nice profile and of course private messages here on PokerStrategy?