With the launch of the new bluffmagazine.com, we are also launching a new blogging platform. With the new platform, it gives us the flexibility to easily add new blogs and let all sorts of new bloggers start using our system. One of those new blogs is going to be a blog devoted specifically to thepokerdb, Bluff’s online poker tournament tracking database.

In terms of history, thepokerdb was founded in May 2005 by Nat Arem and Paul Shamilov. It was developed initially as a beta but, upon proving popular, was relaunched as a production-level site in the fall of 2005. Over the following 12 months, thepokerdb’s traffic and popularity increased by leaps and bounds prompting an acquisition by Bluff Media in December 2006. For the following few months, Bluff developers worked to redevelop thepokerdb and integrate it into Bluff Magazine’s website. In late March 2007, thepokerdb was moved from thepokerdb.com to bluffmagazine.com/thepokerdb and version 2.0 of the site was finally live. On January 29th, 2009, the latest version of thepokerdb (very similar to the previous one in terms of function, but taken to the next level in terms of design) was rolled out.

Going forward, we hope this blog will serve as a resource for us to communicate with thepokerdb’s valued users and subscribers. We will be posting regularly as bugs and problems arise, along with information about bug fixes and how we resolve any future issues. As this business is constantly evolving and technical issues are always coming up, we can’t promise that everything will always be correct — that’s where you can help. Report issues to us. Leave comments on this blog. Explain the problems that you’re seeing and what the data should look like. It’s nearly impossible for us to keep up with every bit of data from every site, so we rely on you to be our eyes and ears for many of the minute problems that can arise when collecting enormous amounts of data everyday.

Thank you very much for years of loyalty and we hope you like the new design,

Nat Arem
thepokerdb.com founder