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I am designing the T-shirt for the Texas Holdem tournament at Pubcon. I want to hear from you during the design process, so I am going to experiment with Sphinn as a survey tool. Sphinn this one if you prefer the clubs girl, but look at the hearts first!

The T-shirts are going to start with these drawings, and then be built on from there with sponsors names, the name of the tournament etc.

Look at both pictures, and then choose which one you think would look better on the back of a T-shirt by Sphining it.

I am planning on long sleeve black t-shirts, but feel free to comment if you suggest a better one.

The “hearts” girl is here if you follow this link.

Look at them both, and then sphinn the one you like the best. Sphinn by the way is Danny Sulivans cool (new to me) version of social bookmarking for SEO’s. Think Digg for search engine peoples.

This is just a little preview of what to expect at the tournament.

Yep, the video is of me.

Microsoft announced their Pubcon party will be on Thursday from 7:00 to 9:00. As this will conflict with the starting time of the Poker Tournament I called my contact at the Venitian Poker room and they were gracious enough to change the starting time of the tournament. There are enough Pubcon Parties this time to kill you!

Official Notice

The Purposeinc 2007 SEO Poker Tournament

will now take place on

Thursday Dec 6th at 9:00 P.M.

(Please check in around 8:30 P.M.)

It should be the best Pubcon party there is!

Reminder, please go to the Venetian Hotel site and sign up for a Players Club membership which I believe is free before the night of the tournament.

Note: Dec. 2, 07 It is funny that one of the main reasons I set this party up was that last year there was the Microsoft Pubcon Party, (which I was not invited to), the Yahoo Pubcon Party, (which I was also not invited to), and the Google Party (which was in the conference and was for everyone. Since I did not get invited to these parties, and I knew that many others did not either, I figured it would be cool to throw the everyman’s  party at Pubcon 2007.

It turns out though that other great minds have gotten the same idea. The usual three, Google, Yahoo, and MSN are all throwing them, and Rand Fiskin is throwing the party of all parities with the Werefolf Contest (not by the way Wherewolf as I initially thought it was). There is also going to be a golf tournament, which I was told was closed, but don’t quote me on that or count on it! Also I have heard of a dinner get together, free show tickets given out by Joe Morin, and rumors of other events taking place.

Thanks to all who are organizing, as this I am sure will be the Pubcon to remember. I just wonder if anyone is going to make it to the sessions, or if they will all still be sleeping in.

I will see you at the tables!

dk

The Pubcon Poker Event (Not one of the official Pubcon Events) is starting to gather some cool sponsors. Best of The Web, BOTW has offered to kick in to help.

I also got word back from Chipotle Burritos that they are giving a coupon worth about 8 bucks to each player of the tournament for a free burrito. I have close friendship ties with Chipotle and they made big donations to the fire fighters in San Diego when we were bringing food out to them and doing chiropractic during the fires last month.

By the way I am still looking for another sponsor to kick in around $1500 for a killer project during the tournament. It will give the sponsor some serious eyeball exposure. Again, I am not making a cent off of this.

If anyone has any products that would be widely used by the attendees of the tournament you are also welcome to offer them. Just send me a comment or and e-mail dk (at sign) purposeinc.com and we can discuss it.

That is the latest news on Pubcon events.

SEO Poker Tournament Announcement for Dec. 2007

Name the SEO Contest and Win a free T-shirt. – Pictures of all the players.

The winner.. Dan Perry and his story!

Another story on Dan

The Charities

Tournament Finance summary

The T-Shirts

The original players list

The Graphics Available for your site!

SEO Poker Event at Pubcon Sponsors

Tony Clifton

This is the original donation page

The original 2007 registration area

It is all arranged! The Purposeinc 2007 SEO Texas Holdem Charity Poker Tournament at Pubcon Las Vegas will take place at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino right on the strip, two hotels down from the Wynn.

It will be on Thursday December 6th at 8:00  Changed to 9:00 P.M. Read more below..

Your host will be me, Dr. David Klein (to patients), a.k.a. Purposeinc (online), a.k.a. dk (in person)

The charities include burned fire fighters from the San Diego fire, the wife of a deceased fire captain, a prisoner rehabilitation group, medical clinics and schools in the Sudan, and a water pump and septic tank for an Indian school where 3500 children currently sometimes go without water. I wrote a page about the charities.

Here is a map of the casino. The Poker Room is just to your left when you enter the casino. It is directly under TAO, the ultra sleek night club that sells out every night. Between hands make sure to at least check the people out who are trying to get into TAO, that is a party unto itself!

A $50 tournament fee will be required to hold a seat. A small percent of this money goes to Paypal to cover the transaction, and the rest, around 98% goes directly to charitites. There is also a $1.50 charge from eventbrite, who is providing the online registration software.

I will be making $0 off of this event.

Before you buy in at the tournament players will be required to have a valid Venetian Players Club membership. This is free and you can sign up online.

Then the night of the tournament you will give the Venetian a $150 buy in to play in addition to the $50 charity donation you already made.

Read this before you sign up.

Then sign up here.

If you don’t know the rules you can go to

SEO Poker Table (*dot) com

* put in a . and get rid of the blank spaces

By the way the Poker Room Manager told me that free drinks will be provided.

Keep checking back here frequently for more details and related events. There may be a few more surprises popping up here 😉

dk

This is the full disclosure.

Please read everything below in this post before you register.

Then Click Here To Register.

Venitian Poker Room Thursday December 6th 8:00 Changed to 9:00 P.M.

(Starting time was changed from 8:00 to 9:00 so as not to conflict with the Microsoft Party)

1. Make the $50 charity donation immediately if you want to play (as soon as registration opens within the next few days).

This money will be split amongst three or more charities. Currently one of them is going to 2 fire fighters who were seriously burned in the San Diego fires in October 2007. The second goes to the wife of a fire fighter who died of a heart attack during the week of the fires in San Diego. The third charity is to help educate some of the Lost Boys of the Sudan. I am still looking for an Asian, European or South American charity (or all three) where the money really goes to help and is not wasted on administration. Not all of these charities are recognized by the U.S. IRS as full blown charities so may not be tax deductible. I am passing the money on to those who I feel need a little help right now, and not worrying about tax savings. (I will be giving more charity details here in the upcoming days)
The $50 just saves you a seat. It is not the buy in for the tournament. You must make the $50 donation in order to play in the tournament.

2. Show up at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas on Thursday December 6th around 7:00 or 7:30 8:30 at the Poker Room and make your $150 buy in. The Venetian runs one of the classiest joints in town and should run an excellent room.

Of the $150, the Venetian Poker Room has told me that they will be taking $40 for the casino room to cover costs, and the rest will be put into the pot. There will be a gradient payout from first place on down quite a few places. First place should be a fairly decent take.

3. Play the Texas Holdem Tournament and win! (or possibly lose, but not you right?)

4. There will be no refunds of any of the fees. I am not personally making a cent off of any of this, and am doing the work to help the charities and to help the average no name webmaster (I mean high roller!) of Pubcon get a chance to connect with his fellow webmasters!

5. This thing is taking off fast and should be a rocking ride, so if you have any suggestions or see any problems ahead please feel free to comment below. I am expecting it to take 4 or 5 hours depending on how many people we have play. It could go much faster or slower.

6. Check back right here for the Passcode to get in a few days. I am going to invite the paid members at Webmaster world first, and if there is room others can join.

There are limited seats, so sign up now if you want to play! (or at least as soon as I give out the password.)

REGISTER FOR 2007 PURPOSE INC. SEO POKER TOURNAMENT HERE

The online version is a NRM tournament! (No Real Money!)

The one in Vegas for Pubcon will be the real thing.

I set up a site where you can play Texas Holdem Online.

Remove the X below and type it into your browser.

The site is SEOPokerTable X .com

The reason I am not linking to it is that the SEOPokerTable site runs software that has a link to a site, that links to a real online gambling site.

The site you are on, Purposeinc.com has not links to gambling sites, and you have my promise that it will never have crappy links to bad neighborhoods.

The SEO Poker site has software that you can play Texas Holdem for free, and also learn the rules. It has a chat feature so you can yack with the other players.

When you log into the software it will ask for your e-mail address. Feel free to enter a fake one. I promise to not spam you with anything.

By the way, you all have my promise to not link this site (Purposeinc.com) ever, ever, ever to any online gambling!

I am still culling over the different dates and time for the tournament. We are getting lots of interest in the event, but I am still looking for more input in regards to what the contestants want in terms of date and time.

I am also trying to get a read on how late I can schedule it in the evening. I am guessing, that a poker tournament would last about 3 hours. Pubcon starts at around 8:00 each morning. Last year I was still deep asleep at 8:00 each morning.

This poker tournament should be very enlightening. As a group Search Engine Optimization guys tend to be very smart, very cunning, and good at carrying out strategies. It will be fun to see the treachery carried out at the poker tables by the guys who have a reputation for bluffing, redirecting, and generally being deceptive.

It is a group who often do not show their cards in life, as the second they do, someone else will snatch them and run down the street with them. They do this well though while sitting in front of a keyboard, but how will they do face to face?

I am still taking input as far as the date and time of the event. I am planning on setting the date by early next week. Because there is so much going on Tuesday and Wednesday, and due to the fact that no one has to get up early on Friday except to go drinking at the official Pub part of Pubcon, I might have the Post Poker Party on Thursday night.

I am still looking for someone who can provide me either with software I can run on this site, so entrants can practice online if they need to learn or a link to somewhere they can, and also a write up or a link to a write up on the rules of poker, in this case probably Texas holdem. The only requirement is that the link not be to an online paid poker site, or a site that links to them for obvious reasons.

I will keep you posted high rollers!

This site did not exist a week ago, so I am glad you found it! I announced the tournament in the members only area of webmaster world. It costs about a hundred bucks a year to be a member and worth every penny.

There are other games afoot regarding Pubcon. You can see a photo of one of our invited poker guests Dax in Shoemoney’s post about their Party Like an SEO rockstar. Dax is the one with his pants down.

Since this site has a page rank of 0 being brand new, I figure the links will probably have a value of like -1.

I have gotten some great e-mails of support, first from the BOTW guys offering to sponsor or donate to the charity.

I also have got a great e-mail and got some great wisdom from Clarke Douglas Walton who is an internet attorney and has a Vegas firm called Walton Law Firm.

Hey, when your Page Rank is 0 on a new site, it is easy to throw links around!

It was very cool though of both of the above to offer help the first day of the announcement.

I almost have the agreement with one of the most popular, elegant, and hip casinos in town for the poker tournament. I am still looking for feedback as to what the best night will be, and then I will wrap up the agreement and announce the casino.

Texas Holdem has been suggested as the game of choice, and it is also the most popular tournament poker game, but I am still open ears for advice.

I am intentionally not going to link to any bad neighborhoods on this blog even though we are discussing poker for obvious reasons. I am looking for someone who has a non gambling site (meaning good neighborhood) who would like to give the rules of the poker game we choose. I also am looking for someone who can either run on my site, or host on theirs a place where those who don’t know how to play poker can practice online without money being involved.

Please let me know what charity you support as well as what night sounds the best.

Purposeinc