PokerCurious.com is back up. I apologize for the miscommunication with our former server host that had the site down. I'm thrilled that we are on a new server that is quick again.

Join us this Sunday, January 29th at 20:00 CET (2 pm EST/11 am PST) for our third week of our six week $65 freeroll Minted Poker Freeroll League.

Due to the site being down, I wasn't able to send the usual newsletter announcement so only 65 members played each of the first two freerolls. That leaves excellent opportunities for third week players in the larger player pool to surge up the leaderboard.

Three more $65 freerolls will follow on each successive Sunday at the same time. The top six cumulative points leaders from the six week league will earn additional cash prizes:

1st - $35
2nd - $25
3rd - $20
4th - $15
5th - $10
6th - $5

Happy New Years all! After an extended break for the holidays in November and December we will be starting our third Minted Poker League. It will have a similar six week with extra league prizes format to the second version with the exact dates to be announced soon.

For those that have been enjoying my EpicPoker.com Social Director columns focused on the poker and Twitter world, here is my latest column - Enhancing the Value of Twitter for 2012

http://www.epicpoker.com/news/blog-pages/2012/01/social-directory-enhancing-value-twitter.aspx

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season. With all the festivities going on, I almost overlooked last week's Social Director column that gave my Twitter perspective on the heads-up battle between Chris Klodnicki and Andrew Lichtenberger in the recent Epic Poker League mix-max main event.

http://www.epicpoker.com/news/blog-pages/2011/12/social-director-twitter-vets-face-off.aspx

I'm hoping early in the new year, we can start up a new freeroll poker league on Minted. So keep an eye out for that.

For this week's Social Director column, I caught up with the latest exploits of Sam Trickett (@Samtrickett1) and David Sands (@Doc_Sands) on the tournament felt and on Twitter. Both players have had a tremendous 2011 and continue to make strides in their game.

http://www.epicpoker.com/news/blog-pages/2011/12/social-director-following-samtrickett1-and-doc-sands.aspx

With the holidays approaching, my contract writing is slackening so I will try to write a couple blogs that don't just pimp my article writing...

One of the interesting aspects of Twitter is you don’t know what you are going to find. While there are certainly some very structured and reliable tweeters, many poker pros are more unpredictable. Some will have bursts of tweeting around a tournament or some personal activity. Others are content to have their occasional impulsive tweets speak for them. Then there are those pros that experience a sense of tweeting mania. The tweets flow with reckless abandon sharing an almost unfiltered stream of consciousness...

Read the rest of this week's EpicPoker.com Social Director column to hear about Kathy Liebert's Manic Twitter Monday.

http://www.epicpoker.com/news/blog-pages/2011/11/social-directory-pokerkat-scratch-fever.aspx

Happy Thanksgiving to all. This week's EpicPoker.com Social Director column focuses on how to solicit good twitter hand advice. Context is key.

The example I illustrate with features David Paredes, @gaucho2121, a 31-year-old respected East Coast cash game and tournament pro who received feedback from Mike "Timex" McDonald and other pros during his recent Borgata Fall Poker Open tournament.

http://www.epicpoker.com/news/blog-pages/2011/11/social-director-soliciting-twitter-advice.aspx

I'm back to share this week's EpicPoker.com Social Director column where I discuss the seven common mistakes that poker players make when managing their Twitter feed. If you are going to do the Twitter thing, you might as well do it right.

http://www.epicpoker.com/news/blog-pages/2011/11/social-director-seven-mistakes.aspx

My Social Director column got pushed back due to all the extra Main Event content EpicPoker.com posted this week. My column this week looks at how passionate, opinionated and supportive Twitter poker personalities are during a big poker event like the WSOP Main Event final table. Check out the lively commentary from the poker world when the big hands came down Sunday evening to decide the Tuesday Trinity.

http://www.epicpoker.com/news/blog-pages/2011/11/twitter-during-november-nine.aspx

In honor of Halloween this week, I wrote my weekly EpicPoker.com column featuring how poker players celebrated Halloween, costumes and all, on Twitter.

There are fifteen fun pictures to check out:

http://www.epicpoker.com/news/blog-pages/2011/11/social-director-halloween-poker-style.aspx

This week's EpicPoker.com Social Director column "Twitter Conversation, Define "Fish" shares an extended exchange that occurred on Twitter a few days ago discussing the media and poker industry use of the word. The conversation demonstrates that Twitter can be more than selfish promotions and snarky comments.

http://www.epicpoker.com/news/blog-pages/2011/10/social-director-twitter-conversation-define-fish.aspx

On another related note, Klout, the Twitter influence rating service, rolled out a major change in their scoring algorithm that caused significant shifts to most people's scores. The new scoring seems to weight your influence on Facebook more than your influence on Twitter. It got a lot of people worked up who have focused on building their Twitter influence and who have reliably used Klout as the standard metric for gauge and refining their expanding social network. It demonstrated to me once again how poorly some companies manage change through a lack of transparency and poor communication. As Cole South replied "see: Netflix." Exactly. People see through when a business isn't straight with their customers. The companies ultimately take a step backwards when they intended to take one forward, if they don't adequately factor their customers and their perceptions into the changes.

(Note - For those with some extra time and interest in the reaction to Klout's changes, read some of the hundreds of constructive comments left on the Klout blog announcement of their changes.)

http://corp.klout.com/blog/2011/10/a-more-accurate-transparent-klout-score/