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Perhaps resulting from online poker's ever growing popularity, an amazing number of online poker magazines have come up over the final one decade or so. Indeed, so large is the number of such online poker magazines that we have been now actually seeing websites dedicated either to ranking them or serving as directories to them actually coming up.

What are termed as online magazines on poker vary considerably, from the simple one story per issue affairs to huge multi-featured affairs, that are typically designed and presented within the same way as all of the leading online magazines in the world.

The simple one story per issue online poker magazines typically take one particular facet of poker - maybe a particular player, a particular poker rule, a particular poker tournament or pretty much any other particular thing about poker, and focus their full attention on it; approaching the issue from different perspectives, interviewing different authorities about it, getting the poker community's general views on it - and ultimately developing what often turn out to be quite interesting stories.

The more 'featured' poker magazines online, on the flip side, often have different sections, say a poker news section, a poker tournaments section, a poker player's highlight section as well as a poker opinion section - each with what can turn out to be (based on the particular magazine one is actually looking at) some great features.

In a poker magazine using a four part (news, profiles, tournaments and opinions) format, the developers will typically dedicate the news section to emerging issues on the poker field - which could be everything from a newly launched poker website, to a newly introduced poker playing rule; and just about anything else in that series.

For the profiles section, the poker magazines online typically interview among the recognized and highly accomplished poker players, and because of advancing technology, the majority of these online poker magazines are nowadays able to present the interviews they so carry out in audio or video formats, so that the subscriber will not have to read them in text - which can be an extremely attractive feature to those of us who hate having to absorb information by reading.

Online poker magazine's approach to the tournaments section tends to vary from magazine to magazine, with some opting not to have it altogether, some opting to carry only information regarding notable poker tournaments that are very likely to attract everyone's attention, and with yet others opting only to carry information regarding poker tournaments whose organizers pay the magazines to have their tournaments featured.

Most online poker magazine subscriptions are free or sold at very nominal monetary costs. Rather than charge poker magazine subscriptions on the readers, most developers of these magazines are increasingly opting to rely more on the advertisement revenue (where, for example, explanation various online casinos offering poker pay to advertise on the magazines). Even for the magazines that charge subscription fees on their readers, the costs of such poker magazine subscriptions are usually heavily subsidized by various 'interest groups' who pay to have their advertisements appear on the magazines.