A lot of time and thought has gone into Poker Underworld so far. We started with the software and the graphics, and to be honest, we could have gone live with that right away. The game works great and is typical of most Poker games out there - but we’re not live yet. The reason for this is that we wanted to bring as much of the concept behind Poker Underworld to life as we could afford to first, so that when players come in for the first time they understand that we’re a lot more then a Poker game.

This site is being built without any startup money or investors - it’s just me and Jason building and promoting as much as we can in our spare time after our day jobs are over (and sometimes on our lunch breaks), hoping that one day soon other Poker players will have as much fun playing here as we think they will.

So how do we build a true Poker community? We tried to learn a lot from other successful social networks like Facebook and mySpace. We liked the way that once you added a person as your friend, they became part of the content on your homepage. We’ve tried to interpret this for Poker, so when you log onto your Poker Underworld homepage, all of the wins by people in your friend circle are there for you to see. If your friends post a blog entry about a bad beat, it shows up right away so that you know what your friends are up to. If your friends are sitting at a Poker table right now, it tells you where so you can join them.
Most of these features are complete now, and we’ve got a lot that we want to add over the next few months. Combine this with our “private table” and “head to head” features and we think this website is really going to change online Poker. Make sure you reserve your screenname now.

Ryan
The Poker Underworld Team