Card Player Launches New Website

LAS VEGAS – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Card Player magazine, the world's leading poker publication, has launched a new Web site at http://www.CardPlayer.com that offers expanded content, customization tools, and an enhanced version of its proprietary software enabling amateur and professional poker players to track and analyze their tournament play results.

The magazine also is inaugurating a new monthly freeroll No-Limit Hold'em tournament with a $1,500 prize and a grand prize competition for the year's top 100 players. Players automatically qualify for the monthly tournament by posting to site message boards, shopping at the online store, or ordering a magazine subscription.

Visitors to the new Web site can register for free membership that qualifies them to create a personalized home page comprised of modules tailored to their specific needs and interests. Module choices range from poker news, a poker odds calculator and a poker room directory to Player of the Year, World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker updates. Members will also receive their own free CardPlayer.com email address, 50MB of storage space and calendaring capabilities.

The site's proprietary Card Player Poker Analyst software provides a variety of filters enabling users to analyze both their live game and tournament performance based on whatever data is most critical to them, including location, placement, winnings and game type.

Content upgrades include a new section that lists and describes every special tournament, with ongoing updates that will include Card Player web TV programs, major tournament reporting, player profiles, Card Player's Poker Schools, a blog section, and a specialized women's area. Expanded data on World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, amateur poker, and tournament results is also planned.

"With these upgrades, our Web site will continue to be the primary destination on the Internet for anyone who loves the game of poker," said Barry Shulman, publisher of Card Player magazine. "It is simply the most comprehensive, customizable and informative online resource dedicated to poker, hands down, and it's still entirely free."