A New Life Playing Online Poker @ Partypoker

Published: Friday, March 10, 2006 Online-Casinos.com

GET A NEW LIFE PLAYING ONLINE POKER AT PARTYPOKER

Not only can you play online poker - now you can find a mate at partypoker, too!

No-one can accuse the Party Poker marketers of lacking imagination, and their latest initiative explores the possibilities of online poker players finding dates as well!

Online poker card room Partypoker and Lavalife (an online dating agency) are teaming up to present a free 11-week long No Limit Texas Hold'Em tournament series that offers single poker players a chance to meet new people while playing cards online.

Once registered, online poker players are given a tournament date where they can compete for prizes and spend time chatting with potential dates. The theme of the tournament is "Play on Thursday. Have a date on Saturday."

The online poker tournaments begin Thursday, March 23 at 9:30 p.m. and will run at the same time each subsequent Thursday for 11 weeks. Players who finish in the top 20 of a Thursday night qualifier will be invited to participate in the final tournament on June 9th.

The 220-player final tournament offers players a chance to win $25,000 worth of prizes, including an all expenses paid vacation for two to the Club Med Turkoise in the Turks & Caicos Islands, a 50-inch plasma screen TV, an X-BOX 360, iPODs, and gift certificates to various leading online vendors.

"We have already experienced plenty of interest in this with hundreds of players signing up for the tournament well before the first qualifier," Partypoker spokesperson Warren Lush said. "It is not necessary that a participant must be single although the idea is targeted at singles. Whoever wins they will receive a vacation for two to take whoever they want."

Blossoming romance between two Partypoker members apparently provided the inspiration for the current marketing initiative after two of their online poker players, 27-year old attorney Gary Suffir and 27-year old Las Vegas artist Jackie Johnson, decided to get married after a courtship that began at a Partypoker Omaha table and resulted in the two marrying at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas.