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Top 20 Most Searched Poker Players in 2011

By Lee Murphy - January 8th, 2012

News Dominating the high-stakes tables in the first half of the year with several SuperStar Showdowns against the best heads up players in the world, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom was not surprisingly the most searched online poker player profile on PTR in 2011. After a brief disappearance, Isildur1 is back at the $50/$100 PLO (6-max) tables.

In second, after taking a break to move to Vancouver, Canada due to Black Friday, Randy “nanonoko” Lew continued his consistent play which is shown in his stellar PTR graph. Nanonoko’s popularity was boosted by an excellent Team PokerStars documentary “I AM NANONOKO” released early in the year.
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PTR Server Status Notice

By dameon - September 25th, 2011

PTR Announcement A hardware failure occurred at our server co-location facility this morning. If this sounds familiar, its because this is the same server that went down in June. No data was lost but several features on PokerTableRatings.com will be temporarily affected. Read More…

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Update: PTR Experiencing DDoS Attack

By dameon - September 22nd, 2011

PTR Announcement Some of you may have noticed that PokerTableRatings.com is slower than usual. For the last two days, we have been the target of a large DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack.

The traffic load is several times our normal levels and the attack is still on-going. As a result, you may experience site issues where certain features are temporarily unavailable and the website is slow to load. Read More…

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PTR Server Status Update

By dameon - June 14th, 2011

PTR Announcement We are currently experiencing hardware issues at our data center. We blame the full moon… just kidding (but it really is full tomorrow). No data was lost, however several features on PokerTableRatings.com will be temporarily affected. Read More…

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PTR in the News

By dameon - April 5th, 2011

News Congratulations to the MarketZero team who are joining Zynga! We are
thrilled for them to be joining such an exciting company, but are also
sad to see them go.

So what does this mean for PTR and our members? Nada. PTR hasn’t
skipped a beat and we’re working hard to make sure PTR continues to be the best place to find stats on every online poker player. Read More…

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Premium Sneak Peek

By Sean Gibson - March 4th, 2010

PTR Premium The community here at PokerTableRatings.com was sent into a flurry when the announcement of the new “Premium Access” hit the front page of the site. The new premium area has been in development for months with features based on the feedback of the community. Read More…

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PTR gets turbocharged!

By dameon - December 12th, 2009

Hey guys in response to the problems we’ve been having with the speed of the website, especially during peak visitor hours, we’ve started load balancing! That means we now have 2 servers splitting the traffic that used to be served by one, which should give us plenty of room to grow :)

For the curious, both servers are Dual Quad core 2.66ghz Xeons with 32GB of memory :)

Dameon

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omg, why is PTR so slow today?

By dameon - November 17th, 2009

Well, because 35 thousand of you visited us 76 thousand times yesterday, and it’s even more today ;) Over the last couple weeks we’ve seen our traffic skyrocket from around 25 thousand visitors a day to over 35 thousand visitors a day, and we couldn’t be happier that more people than ever are enjoying the site. Our servers on the other hand, they aren’t handling it so well…

We’re working on dealing with the increased traffic, but unfortunately they don’t ship servers as fast as you guys hit refresh! Rest assured, we’re working on the problem and we expect it to get better over the next few days as the new hardware gets up and running.

Thanks for being patient guys!
Dameon

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New Commenting and Posting Policy

By dameon - October 15th, 2009

Hey guys,

You’re great! Well, mostly :) The vast majority of you are intelligent, respectful, appreciative members and we love you for it. However, there are always a few bad apples out there. It is because of those bad apples that we’ve had to create a commenting and forum posting policy, which we will be enforcing strictly. We’re not looking to become nazis but these less respectful members have forced our hand in this regard.
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Full Tilt back up (beta)

By dameon - July 17th, 2009

We’re testing the new Full Tilt stuff now. There is about 2.1 gigs of hands backlogged we’re working on plowing through, those should be caught up on today.

Our coverage during this test is probably a little lower than it was before all the Full Tilt patches, but maybe only by a few percent. Expect to see that come up during the next few days.

Thanks!
Dameon

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