YouTube has been a boon to everyone with a video camera and way too much time on their hands. Since it was first launched it has gone from showing videos of the band "Rednex" singing their only hit "Cotton Eyed Joe", to airing the tearful pleas to leave Britney Spears alone, while finally realizing its crowning moment when a YouTube snowman got to question American Presidential candidates. Yes this has been a phenomenon of technology, the internet, and the shining light on the fact that a large chunk of the population simply doesn't have enough on their plate. So why wouldn't the poker industry want a piece of this action?
PokerTube.com is to the enthusiasts of the game what YouTube is to bored teenagers everywhere. It is on this site that those who are interested in the game can watch poker footage from just about any tournament, whether it be the World Series of Poker, or the game that is played once a week in your neighbor's condo. In other words, if you want a video of Phil Hellmuth behaving like an angry chimp, this is the place to go.
Unlike many things in life, PokerTube is a two-way street. People's involvement with the site doesn't begin and end at watching videos of Brandi Hawbaker and Jennifer Leigh slowly becoming the poker world's dysfunctional versions of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. Just like YouTube, people can upload their videos on to the site, whether they be poker stars you have run into, clips from your home game, or an MPEG of your best online poker moments, this site allows fans to interact with each other at a whole new level.



