Dominik Kofert's PokerStrategy.com is the most trafficked poker site in the world.
Editor’s Note: You Oughta Know is a regular feature highlighting industry stories that we feel are underreported–or simply put–more people should know about. The first in the series is about PokerStrategy.com and its founder, Dominik Kofert.
PokerStars is the world’s most popular destination for people looking to play online poker. No surprise there. But you may be surprised to learn that their nearest competitor–in terms of number of active real money players–isn’t another online poker site like PartyPoker. Outnumbering all other sites with a comfortable margin is a company led by a 30-year-old German Mathematics & Philosophy student and former Starcraft player who opted to forsake a career in Business Management in order to go teach all of Europe to play poker.
His name is Dominik Kofert, and his affiliate company, PokerStrategy.com, is the world’s largest localized poker community and depository of poker strategy content. In fact, it’s the most popular online poker destination in the world–and by a large margin. PokerStrategy.com clocks in with an Alexa ranking of around 1,250. The closest ranking content site is the 2+2 Forum, with a ranking of around 3,600. It’s not even close.
PokerStrategy.com is also one of the most successful companies in the history of online poker; and that’s without ever having made single cent from the biggest market of all – the U.S. How in the world did they do that?
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