Showing posts with label Canterbury Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canterbury Park. Show all posts

Monday, November 17, 2008

More fun with numbers, or, CPL Poker Blog rising up the charts

Month 2's Google Analytics results are in and we're looking pretty good. Our attempts to broaden out the blog to include Home Poker League Resources, Poker News and things like the Hand of the Week look to be paying off.

As we did last month - here's the map of our site's visits:
Still heavily Midwest, but we're up 13.5% on hits from various cities (59 cities last month to 67 this month), and up 15.6 % on visits (377 to 436). We also saw hits coming from 14 different countries (up from 11).

This last point is of some interest. Cities with the most visits were largely the same: Minneapolis and St. Paul led the way again. Circle Pines and Hennepin County moved up a spot with Burnsville replacing Hopkins in the top 5. The item of interest is that Sydney, Australia came in 6th - we're branching out - and, a g'day to all you down under.

On the keyword end of things, our coverage of the area's two biggest card rooms (Canterbury Park and Running Aces) led the way with 19 visits from searches. Add in our various news visits (most often about one of the two card rooms) and you have another 7 visits. Our Home Poker League Resources saw 10 visitors checking us out (with the new "Missouri Chip" getting 6 of them).

This month's stats saw us hit our high water mark for unique visitors in day at 17 - on October 29. We're pretty consistently between 10 and 15 each day. On the browser end of things - over the two full month's of stats - IE leads with 65.56% of visitor browsers, Firefox is at 19.075, 12.30% use Apple's Safari system and Google's new Chrome browser is the choice of 2.71%.

Finally, it pays to give players monikers mimicking pros. We had 7 visits from people looking for either our own league players, people with similar names to our players and those actually looking for Mike Matusow and Phil "Unibomber" Lakk, but finding our versions of them.

Drop us a line if you'd like to see us add features or items - we love hearing from you.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Canterbury Park laying off 60

Canterbury Park announced last Friday that it will complete the layoff of roughly 10 percent of its work force (60 full and part-time positions), by the end of October. Increased competition from the Running Aces card room as well as current economic conditions are forcing the move.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

CPL Poker Blog Site Traffic

Okay, the first month of Google Analytics is in and here are some highlights (this is basically site traffic for those who aren't familiar with "Analytics").


We had 377 visits from 107 unique visitors. This came from 11 countries and 59 cities. Here's the map of the locations our visits came from to us:

As you can see we're pretty heavy on Minnesota, but we're trying to expand and grow. Prelimary numbers from month two seem to bear this out. Our top 5 cities visiting us are Minneapolis, St. Paul, Hopkins, Circle Pines and Hennepin County (all here in the Twin Cities).
As for keyword searches the two card rooms we talk about the most (Canterbury Park and Running Aces) lead the way. Searches for Canterbury Park (including their Fall Poker Classic) yielded us 10 visits. Running Aces variants brought in 8. Our Home Poker League resources (which we added well into the month) accounted for 7 visits, with folks looking for various poker definitions brought in 4 more. Finally, the now resurrected Hand of the Week had 2 web searched hits.
Ahh, fun with numbers.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Oh boy - Running Aces 10,000 Lakes Poker Tourney more than just the HPT

Oh yeah! This is hot! The 10,000 Lakes Poker Tournament is more than a Heartland Poker Tour event - though that is the capstone. This is Running Aces' counterpart to Canterbury Park's Fall Poker Classic and another example of the benefit to Twin Cities area poker players.

The 10K LPT starts on Nov. 5th with a $200 +$30 NLHE event. All-in-all there will be 10 events plus the HPT Main Event. Events include a "Celebrity" tourney, Ladies-only, Deep Stack, Add-ons, Shorthanded, and...wait for it.....an OH8 tourney - something for everyone. Buy-ins obviously include the popular $200+$30 and $300+$40 but you can also get in for $125+$25, $50+$20 and $50+$15 depending on the tourney (a price range for everyone).

You can check out the full schedule for the 10K LPT at: http://www.runningacesharness.com/gaming/tournament_flyers/HEARTLAND.pdf

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Running Aces October Tourney Schedule Up - OH8 Tourney on 10/5

Running Aces has posted their October Calendar for the various poker tournaments. View it here:
http://www.runningacesharness.com/gaming/tournament_calendar_102008.pdf

And, there's some consistency - the monthly OH8 tourney is still on the first Sunday - this time Oct. 5th . Show up and you may see a couple of CPL members playing it this month. CPL Co-Director "Karaoke" Phil Fuehrer has played in the first two and is looking to get in another "practice" session before Canterbury's Fall Poker Classic Event #6 (OH Hi-Lo) on Oct. 15 (though he has a dinner he's supposed to attend which might preclude him from making the 5th). It also looks as if Jeff "Matusow" Matson is planning on being Runnig Aces - and, who knows, there may be others in attendance as well.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Fall Poker Classic schedule now up

Even though we're now sweet on Running Aces, Canterbury Park continues to be a player in the Twin Cities poker scene. Their signature event is probably the Fall Poker Classic, a series of 15 events taking place each October. Canterbury has just released the schedule for this year which you can view here: http://www.canterburypark.com/Poker/FallPokerClassic/tabid/146/Default.aspx

Karaoke Phil is especially jazzed up for the OH8 tourney on Wednesday, October 15. That, and yet another indication that Running Aces is generating competition in the area which directly benefits players. For the Fall Poker Classic it is added chips (Canterbury is calling it "Deeper Stacks" and "More Chips!!") - meaning more play for your dollar and a greater advantage to skill (versus luck) per tournament.