PokerWink.com Launches Social Networking Website to Connect Online Poker Players

TORONTO, ONTARIO (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Looking for an easy way to connect with a poker community? PokerWink.com is an online, social-networking community designed for online poker players. PokerWink.com offers amateur and professional online poker players the opportunity to have fun, learn, interact, and socialize with their poker buddies.

In addition, they offer members the ability to reach out to other online poker members, find out who played who, and explore how they connected. The Website invites members to have fun, make poker buddies and build a strong, online, card-playing community.

Unlike many other poker-targeted Websites that simply provide news, PokerWink.com provides networking, clubs, special events, blogs, chat, an image gallery, and more, to its members and visitors, encouraging them to be active contributors.

"The site is not merely a source of entertainment," Phong Ha, founder, said. "It is influencing the lives of many online poker players by providing the bridge to connect people who have the same passion for the game."

The social networking feature is a unique part of the site. Members can create detailed profiles with their name, photo, online poker room alias (screen name), birthplace, age, poker experiences, and favorite online poker room. Members can also include details about their poker buddies and invite other online poker players to join them on the network to socialize.

PokerWink.com was created by an online poker player for online poker players.

"The PokerWink social network grows rapidly as poker players invite their poker buddies to discuss poker and meet other like-minded individuals," Ha explained. "It's a powerful, online tool, but at the same time, it's fun and easy to use. Members can literally see their personal network, showing their circles of poker buddies, buddies of buddies, and beyond. PokerWink is the next generation's solution for helping online poker players tap into the power of social networking."

PokerWink.com is a privately-held corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Privacy guidelines are adhered to on the Website and when logging onto the site, the member's full name will be displayed only to their direct contacts. For contacts two handshakes away, the member's first name will appear and the first letter of their last name. All others will see only the member's first name.

Press Release, www.pokerwink.com - 2006-03-07 05:13:00