Pokerspace review
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Community-based sites are all the rage across the net these days, so it’s no surprise that we’re seeing a proliferation of such sites in the online pokerverse as well. Community sites make a lot of sense when applied to the context of online poker - the popularity of forums is a testament to the potential that community-driven sites have to attract and maintain significant traffic levels. The newest entry in the online poker community site category is PokerSpace, a portal that blends community, communication, content and rewards for its members.
Overview
PokerSpace takes the poker community site model and adds a rewards component. By participating in the community in various ways, you earn points that can be redeemed for a variety of merchandise. PokerSpace also has a fairly robust selection of strategy content, news, videos and the like.
Pros
The site, while relatively new, seems to be doing a good job of coming up with some unique twists to a familiar format. For example, you can form teams with other members and participate in various weekly competitions against other teams. A large chunk of their strategy content is presented in a lesson plan format, with quizzes at the end of individual lessons and sections that you have to pass before moving on to the next area. The points system works mostly as you’d imagine - the main avenue for earning points is signing up and playing at various poker rooms, but the site does offer a variety of creative ways to earn points, albeit smaller amounts than you earn for sign ups.
The interface is clean and the navigation is pretty intuitive. There’s a good amount of content on the site and most of it is pretty easy to find your way through. The site lacks obtrusive ads and the graphics are nice and understated.
Cons
Most of the aspects of the site that are a bit lacking can be chalked up to the site’s relative newness. The blog area is a bit underpopulated, and the news and video content, along with some of the strategy content (which includes articles from PTP) are
provided by 3rd party partners like PokerNews and PokerTube.
There’s also not a ton of obvious ways to find other people that you might like to be ‘buddies’ with. As member profiles expand I’d expect that this will be remedied.
Overall
PokerSpace doesn’t entirely break the mold of what you expect from an online poker community site, but it does build effectively on the lessons learned by sites that came before it. If you’re looking for a rewards site that has a strong community and content aspects, you should definitely check it out.
