That is right, just like many other sports poker trading season is running. But you might ask what do we mean by trading? Well just like in football or baseball professional players are been captured to represent franchises that are worth millions! Based on their skill, media presence and even popularity on the web, pros are been drafted by the biggest poker sites to represent them; but why? Simple, the WSOP is just around the corner and we are expecting a lot of action from these players.
But why is it important to have a professional player representing a site? Not only it represents an investment as most poker sites share winnings with the sponsored players, but also it signifies a media presence campaign. Look at it this way, if a poker player with a known name appears in a worldwide television broadcasted event with your logo on their shirt or hats, many people who look at the player play, will go online and search for the site. And on top of it the investments are not that big, of course depending on the player.
Now, we say it is open and running as we have already seen the first movements been done for the past few months. David Williams, a very solid poker player previously represented by Bodog has rupture its relationship with the multimillion company in what we think are efforts to go after one of the big ones. In his spot Amanda Musumeci is now the carrier of the brand in her chest.
Another big movement has been the poker young vixen Annette Obrestad a.k.a Annette_15, the winner of the WSOPE and said to have won several tournaments in PokerStars without looking at her pocket hands, not only showing it is possible to win using just skill, but also proving that she is one of the best, has recently signed with FullTilt on their team along with players like Phil Ivey, Jesus Fergusson, Mike Matusow and Gus Hansen. She will be part of the Red Pros team with very talented and skillful players like Mandy Baker, Svetlana Gromenkova among other top poker players she will have by her side.
Another consequence of the “draft” has been the exposure of other pros at mass media alternatives. This week we saw Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth on Good Morning America, where they set a small poker table to show how this business can be fun and lucrative if you have the skills and experience of both players. We also remember Ms. Duke during her role on the Celebrity Apprentice show where she was runner up and helped make her name even bigger.
So poker maniacs, keep your eyes and ears open, during the next few weeks for the WSOP to start you will see a lot of players with great skill been involved with major and small poker sites. The big question is, or better the more than $10 Million Dollar question is: would this year be different and we will finally have a poker pro champion?
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