How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker:

“Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He’s in a $10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of Poker and he just sent out a Tweet. ‘Still in 10k split,’ he said. ‘Didn’t sleep much but feel OK….’ Is that an intimate look inside the minute by minute, high-stakes life of a poker veteran – or is that a head-trip of a bluff intended to make his opponents think he could be slow on his game today?”

The ReadWriteWeb talks to Joe Sebok, poker player and CEO of the Poker Road news site, about how Twitter is changing the professional poker landscape.

Poker is a giant industry. Online gaming is subject to all kinds of legal regulations, vagaries and pitfalls but real world competitions like the World Series of Poker have their own media covering play by play, hand by hand and tournament by tournament. Much of that media coverage now goes on online. As a growing number of poker players are beginning to send out short messages to the world via Twitter, existing poker media is being disrupted and the news sites are scrambling to out-compete with each other in responding to the players’ direct and immediate communication with their fans. Players are reading each others’ Tweets, too, and that has consequences.