Laurence Toney didn\’t make the Bluff Power 20 even though he runs the largest online poker site in the world. (38 million active players, they say, 7.5 million a day!) I know I know … I didn\’t vote for him either … but spoiler alert: probably will next year.
Lo, as he\’s known, Zynga Poker\’s General Manager, aka @lo_toney, is quite the new mystery man in poker. He doesn\’t come from a poker background, he comes from YoVille … one of the original Zynga games (and before that art.com, and before that eBay-Collectibles). While YoVille in and of itself is rather fascinating — seriously, they actually have a YoVille media, and do real-life biz with companies the WSOP could only dream about some day seeing on its felts — what that understanding of true social gaming brings to poker remains to be seen.
