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7.8.07

The Best Poker Website

If Ed Miller ran the twoplustwo website he would turn it into the best poker website of all time. He said he'd do these things:

"On the poker part, I'd install a CMS and immediately prioritize marketing the books. I'd kill the online magazine in its current form and hire a group of writers to do daily-updated strategy articles. Then I'd start adding web apps and utilities... basic stuff like hand converters and equity calcs first, and then a few other more advanced tools I'm thinking of writing for my own site. I'd ditch UBB and whatever new solution I went with, I'd expand the profile-building features so that people could build their own mini poker-related myspace-like pages where they could post their tournament wins (or have them slurped automatically from online repositories), link to friends, etc." (source: his comments at this post)
Wow! Those sound like excellent improvements! Imagine that kind of poker website with so much available, it could really be a one-stop shop. It would have everything except the actual gaming (he'd probably want that too if it weren't illegal in the US and Nevada specifically, where twoplustwo is).

So, the obvious question is, why isn't he doing that on his own website?
The fan doesn't know, but here are some possible explanations:
  1. He's too busy with other projects
  2. He doesn't feel his website readership is ready to expand to that point
  3. He doesn't have the investment capital or would rather use it for other projects
  4. He sincerely wants twoplustwo to improve and change