Nicolas Levi is the Co-Founder of RankingHero and a former professional poker player with almost $2million in total winnings.  Since his poker playing days, Levi launched Ranking Hero, a “poker database made social” website, to revive and build camaraderie within the poker community.

Levi has recently revealed RankingHero’s latest feature, a new 3D ranking system he calls “HeroScore”.  In this interview, we discuss the innovation behind Levi’s rankings, its purpose within the poker community and how adding social elements to poker will help boost the industry’s ecosystem.

Becky Liggero: Thank you for joining me today, Nicolas.  Lets start by talking about this particular ranking that you’ve created because its different than a lot of the other rankings that are out there and available today.  Tell me why you decided to launch this and how it’s different?

Nicolas Levi: Yes, it’s a big challenge.  Its the first ranking that doesn’t try to rank just the results of players.  Ranking results itself is good but its always difficult because you don’t know the losses of the poker players, you just know the winnings.