'Tournament Reporter' Injects New Excitement into Online Poker Tournaments

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

Toronto, Canada - Tournament Reporter, a new online poker tournament ranking service, launched today introducing a new universal ranking system that assesses a player’s recent tournament performance. Now with Tournament Reporter’s TR Rank and Reports, players can set goals, track their progress, and gain insights about their play, including how they stack up against the competition.

Found at http://www.tournamentreporter.com, Tournament Reporter’s TR Rank and Reports provide real money multi-table tournament players with the most relevant-to-tournament performance measures, in an intuitive, visual, and well organized interface. Tournament Reporter is designed to be quick and easy to use.

“Our research indicates that real money tournament players play more for the competition and excitement rather than the money,” says Alex Antoniou, President and CEO of Tournament Reporter Ltd. “Tournament Reporter has the potential of growing the game of poker by enabling players to track and measure their performance. Tournament Reporter gives Tournament Poker players the extra excitement, challenge and competition they’re looking for when they play tournaments at Tournament Reporter Supported Sites.”

How The TR Rank™ Works

The TR Rank™ is unique because it varies based on your most recent performance relative to other players. The TR Rank™ is intuitive to use since it employs the card ranks i.e. Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10… to convey player performance. A player with an “Ace” ranking is a top ranked and a “4” is ranked below average.

Other poker reporting services consider a player’s performance to be a fixed trait - either you are a "shark" or you are a "fish". In contrast, the TR Rank™ recognizes that playing performance is in constant flux and may vary significantly over the course of time. For example in tournament poker, a novice player may rise to become a strong player in a matter of months or a strong player may lose focus and go on a bad run.

“We designed Tournament Reporter to be a place where tournament players could get the maximum amount of information and insights with the least amount of work,” says Adam Haines, Tournament Reporter Co-Founder and Director of Product Management. “At Tournament Reporter you’ll find a set of hundreds of highly visual charts that are organized in an interface that tournament players can easily navigate by simply pointing and clicking. Players wanted a wheel where they could easily track their player and opponents – so we added that too.”

Availability, Pricing and Licensing Information

Tournament Reporter is immediately available. Pricing and licensing information can be online at: http://www.tournamentreporter.com.