Like companies using social networking sites to spread their advertising, the poker world is also under the spell of this platform. There are currently no less than one hundred professional poker players with an account on the Twitter microblogging platform. At the top of poker players’ ranking, we find Joe Sebok, far ahead of the biggest poker names. He gathers 1,044,830 followers. Despite modest tournament winnings, Joe Sebok arrives first in the ranking; he has accumulated nearly $ 1.8 million in tournaments. Doyle Bronson, the poker patriarch, has the second place with more than 200,000 Twitter members. The big names Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, have respectively 33,760; 28,520 and 22,600 followers.
Given the performance of these three players, the latest figures are quite astonishing as they seem not proportional. Players don’t necessarily speak about poker on Twitter; they consider it as a platform where they can express themselves. Examples include Texas Dolly, the microblogging site best known for its jokes about blondes.
