The Poker Tree is launching their national pub and bar poker gaming concept throughout the UK in July 2009. With hundreds of pubs already on board and more signing up every day, the poker league will be reaching all corners of the country over the coming months.

By operating a national points driven league system The Poker Tree will provide all the necessary gaming equipment free of charge to all signed up venues.

Better still, there are Las Vegas holidays and large cash prizes to be won by the players who make it through to the regional and national finals. Not only do the players win prizes and trophies but the venues associated with the winning players can also reap large rewards.

The Poker Tree has developed a unique website which combines social poker networking for all members. Every member will have access to their own home page with league statistics, profiles, messaging and lots of other exciting features. The site will be fully operational in the coming weeks at www.thepokertree.com.

If you are interested in hearing more about The Poker Tree then you can contact them on 0844 980 0422 quoting the code PTR1.

http://www.pokerplayermagazine.co.uk/pokerlife/pokernews/8956/the_poker_tree.html

A great use of social media here from my friends at AD, done in a similar way to the #uksnow map we saw earlier in the year.

When a user on Twitter tweets #atishoo + postcode + score out of 5 it gets aggregated on to a map plotting the level of hay fever agitation in that area.

Good work Kleenex highlighting the plight of hay fever sufferers up and down the country.

Check it out here

This could be seen as a slightly lazy piece of classic asp code but it works for me.

Php coders should understand this one.

sub echo(input)
response.write(replace(input,"'",""""))
end sub

The single quote is now essentially being used an escape character similar to php echo which saves having to do double quotes when using response.write to output html.

Enjoy