SKY-HIGH ONLINE POKER
3 April 2009
This game can give you a real high....
Most innovative poker marketing idea this week comes
from BestPoker.com on the Ongame Internet poker network,
which is currently running qualifiers for its inaugural
"Poker in the Sky" tournament.
The qualifiers
are designed to whittle what is expected to be a large
entry field down to just 22 players, who will then be
hoisted 150 feet above the ground over Kungsträdgården
in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden on a platform, using a
giant crane. Definitely an eye-catching promotion that
should give the players a genuine high.
First
prize for the sky high event is a brand new Kawasaki
motorcycle, with other prizes including a Scott sport
utility bicycle, an iPhone, a watch, and an Xbox. The
event, expected to last approximately four hours, is
scheduled to take place on May 13th.
Magnus
Bjuggren, VIP Manager at Bestpoker.com says: "Poker in
the Sky is something that we have planned for a long
time. We have a lot of successful players at
Bestpoker.com and this is a great opportunity for us to
give the very best of the best - something no one else
can."
Not since the heady days of the InterPoker
extreme poker challenges, which involved all sorts of
derring-do formats and exotic locations, has the
industry seen such an attention-grabber as that proposed
by BestPoker, and there is a possibility that the
company will be staging other "out-there" events.
According to Robert Arfvidsson, Marketing Manager at
Bestpoker.com, this could be only the first of a series
of such events. "Hopefully, we will be bringing this
concept to other cities in Europe and South America,"
says Arfvidsson. "[That] makes it even more exciting for
the winner from Stockholm, to be able to defend his or
her title in the next event."
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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