Poker Room.com Have Lost The Plot

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Poker Room have lost the plot and so has Karl Magnusson, the Vice-President and Chief Administration Officer of Ongame if they are in on this irresponsible stunt in any way shape or form.

Why pokerroom.com would ever feel the need to be involved with such advertising techniques is plain beyond me.

There is surely no way Pokerroom.com have got wind of this promotion yet right? Tell me it's not so and i'll still not be surprised though. When will this stupid shock advertising ridiculousness end?

Ongame run Pokerroom.com - who are in turn accepted by Ecogra and ceo Andrew Beveridge as a decent "sealed" poker supplier. That goes for their quango-like directors Michael Hirst, Bill Gaston and Frank Catania. If Ecogra allow this stupidness to stand, they are more soft than I give them credit for - and that is saying something. Lets not forget that old chestnut - egap 113 - RESPONSIBLE ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONS

Adrants - Poker Site Stoops to New Promotional Low
We know the Internet is full of lame, cheesy, oddball promotions but this one sure grabbed our attention. On SaveMyFinger.com an man calling himself Carl Valentine made a bet with his "internet marketer" millionaire friend he could send 2 million people to SaveMyFinger by April 18, 2006. If Valentine succeeds, he will play his friend in a poker match to win the million dollars. If Valentine fails to generate 2 million visitors to the site, he will play his friend in a poker match to keep his right index finger. That's right. If Valentine doesn't achieve 2 million visitors and loses the poker match, he will also lose his finger.
Gamblog Comment - I won't even link up Save My Finger.com and neither have Adrants, because that will perpetuate this nonsensical garbage and legitimise this kind of rubbish, that the online gambling industry can do well without.

In all seriousness, Ecogra cannot allow this promotion to stand and I cannot see them allowing it to either, otherwise they will have plain lost the plot too.

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