Good Marketing Ploy

[GeoffM]

Easy way to get some mainstream media attention.

[eddo31]

that is some pretty good marketing. unfortunately, the lack of outrage in the us about no nhl season seems to indicate that pokerroom wont get too much of a bump from it.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

what if they dont play poker/???

Each side hires a top pro to play for them? Who would you pick?

Can't imagine anyone ever saying, welll....I don't really know how to play but I guess I'll put a few billion dollars on this one poker tournament, why not.

[eddo31]

negreanu has to be on one side of the table, just because he is canadian and because he wears hockey jerseys a good amount of the time at the table.

i have absolutely no idea who takes the other side. maybe phil ivey, who they could call the jarome iginla of poker for this match.

[2Tone]

It is a great piece of marketing, especially since the Press Release got picked up by the media.

And actually, they should do it, or a coin toss, or something. You figure the game is likely +EV for everyone, just to get it resolved. How much money is being lost by both sides by the season not happening?

[Tuff Luck]

Haha. Something like that wold never be settled over poker. Funny though.

[Talking Poker]

This is good marketing, yes, but personally, I preferred when they had topless women painted to look like a deck of cards running around just before the WSOP. Now that's good stuff.

[eddo31]

yeah, i think that spray painted boobs are probably a bit more eye-catching than their offer to settle the nhl problems. im not sure that either one of these promotions did much for them, but i guess they cant hurt at all.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

Headline:

"Billions of dollars lost in one hand as AA is beat by 72os ."

[Baseballa19]

This is true. I am no hermit and I honestly didn't even know about the situation until recently. The media in the US has just started making the NHL thing huge story.