Slides for the Business Bootstrap meetup. Pitch Deck.

1. POKERRAVE.NET
“Rave about your poker games”
www.pokerrave.net
www.twitter.com/pokerrave
www.angellist.co/poker-rave

2. The team
Lee Englestone James Dixon
(Founder / Geek) (Advisor/ Poker Pro)
@leeenglestone @beats4fun
• BSc Computation,
• Full time UK professional
Manchester University
poker player
• Senior Software Developer
• MCP, MCAD, MCSD • Big advocate of Poker Rave
• C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET MVC,
Silverlight, WP7, WPF, • Has poker contacts / reach
jQuery, SQL Server, Oracle

3. Where did the idea came from?
• Poker players trying to tweet hands & chip levels!?
• Poker players love to describe hands and share progress
• Poker fans like to follow professionals and other players

4. Wouldn’t it be great if..
a player could visually share
their hands and game progress?

5. All Time Earners
Poker popularity
WSOP 2012 $10,000
main event
• 1st - $8,531,853
(Greg Merson)
• 2nd - $5,295,149
• (Jesse Sylvia)
• 3rd – $3,799,073
• 4th - $2,851,537
• 5th - $2,155,313
• 6th - $1,640,902
• 7th - $1,258,040
• 8th – $971,360
• 9th - $754,798

6. Online Poker sites
PokerStars.com recently celebrated its 90,000,000,000 online hand
Poker Market is HUGE (& wealthy)

7. Different players / different games
Home Pub league
games games
Live Online
tournaments tournaments

8. Enter Poker Rave
• Track game session (when, where etc) with Poker Rave mobile app
• Easily create notable hands during that game
• Show graph of chip level during game
• Follow other Poker players (and see their activity)
• Share links to hands and games on Twitter and Facebook
• Users ‘score’ increases through
• Creating games and hands
• Having their games & hands up voted
• Having their games and hands being favourited

9. Poker rave platform
Poker Rave website
API

10. Poker Rave current status
• Current state
• In beta
• All functionality is web interface based
• Mobile app comes next
• Participates in nReduce online incubator
• Sets, meets and reports on weekly tasks
• Gathering interest
• Positive feedback from poker players
• Currently bootstrapping
• but contemplating raising funding to allow full time development

11. Revenue possibilities
Custom
Direct Affiliate
venue
advertising programmes
promotion
Paid for advertising Commission from Venues (casinos etc)
(banners) referring site visitors can pay to describe
Probably pokers sites to poker sites and promotions
& services signing up On their ‘venue’ page

12. Competition
• Main competitor is PokerStars ‘Boom’
• Allows export of hand from PokerStars client
• Limitation : Requires Flash player! So no iPad and iPhone can view!
• Limitation : Limited to PokerStars games
• Whereas Poker Rave
• Can be viewed on all platforms
• Not limited to PokerStars

13. Demonstration

14. Next steps
• Grow the site / gain traction
• Get poker players registering/using the site
• Ideally professional players
• Develop the mobile app
• Perhaps have Kickstarter campaign for £2K for MacBook / dev
resources to make iPhone app (would promote Poker Rave as
well)
• Create videos (for demo, promotion & investors)
• May be the best way to describe concept to others
• Apply for funding / Accelerators / Incubators
• Why not?