4th Street Poker Tour

4SPT Google Group

In an effort to keep everyone connected - we've created a 4SPT group where people can post notices about games. You should have received an email invitation. If not, visit the group page and request an invitation.

Welcome to the All New 4SPT.com

by the First Lady

Q: What's up with the new website?

A: We've wanted to redesign the website for a long time, but never had enough time to dedicate to the project. The navigation structure that we put in place over two years ago had become outdated. Important content was buried while irrelevant information was being surfaced.

However, as a result of a corporate-wide reorg at that internet company I work for, I've found myself with A LOT of available downtime this past month. So I took advantage of the situation and let "The Man" fund the design and development of the all new and improved 4th Street Poker Tour website.

Allow me to take you on a little virtual tour. First, notice the categories in the left hand column of the site. Every single post has been categorized (over 570 and counting) to help you better nagivate your way through the site. A typical post will have several categories. For instance, Game Results will be tagged with the winner's nickname (or name if a nickname has not yet been granted) and the season.

Here's a tip for those with big egos. Any player who has ever won a game or authored a Poker Corner article now has their very own category page which includes all related and personalized content. So, you can bookmark your very own category page (or mine) and share the URL with friends and family so they can track your progress on the Tour.

Over on the right hand side of the page you'll find the standard Season and Overall Points leaders modules. However, instead of linking to profiles, the top five now link to the players' category page. At the bottom of each module is a link to the complete list of player standings.

Below the Recent Comments are Quick Links for The Vault, In the Money, Winners by Win, The Rules (which desperately needs to be updated), and all the Poker Corner articles. And we've reinstated the Upcoming Events module so you'll no longer have any excuse for missing a Major because the dates for all games in the season are listed.

We hope you like the changes and if you have any suggestions for improvement, please leave a comment.

6 Degrees of 4SPT: Outback

In the spirit of content discovery, I thought I'd uncover the trail to 4th Street of a two time winner that most of you have never heard of but who nonetheless has an original 4SPT nickname and his own category page.

1. Before Complex Slim was a poker guru, he worked in I.T. at a company called Worldlink. There, he befriended a sales assistant named Andrew and invented a game called Cup Ball (a complex game involving throwing a ball into a cup).
2. Andrew "KCBP" Dinowitz, while not at the first official game, is definitely a 4SPT O.G. He's the reason 4th Street became a "Tour" by offering up his home for the third game way back on July 1, 2004. Newbies to the Tour can meet the KCBP on Legends Night, at Game 8 on April 26th.
3. Dino introduced another legend to the Tour, Seattle Slew. Having taken enough bad beats to last a lifetime, our first Tournament of Champions winner moved back to his home city over a year ago.
4. Slew invited his friend Jay Coulbourne to the game back in the Fall Season of 2004. Back then we were really intent on making sure everyone and anyone had a nickname, so we weren't always so discerning. After he won his first game (FS I, Game 6) we scrambled to think of something original. All we really knew about him was that he worked at the Outback. And a lame nickname was born. The Outback went on to win his second 4SPT six games later and never returned.

4SPT Logo

Thanks to the hard work of Globe Shoes artist, Freddy Medina, the 4th Street Poker Tour is now branded! I hope you like the logo as much as I do. I can't wait to get it on some hats, shirts, chips, playing cards...

Click the logo on the right to see the detailed version.