Full Contact Poker.com has developed an ingenious marketing concept
for the next WSOP, using the catch phrase "Wear the name, share
the fame."
The online poker site offers FCP members who play in WSOP events the
chance to share in potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars, just
for wearing FCP apparel in the TV-intensive competition. Adding money
to the gear, the company has announced that they will match five percent
of their champion Daniel Negreanu's gross winnings in the tourney
and award it to eligible FCP community members.
With over 30 events remaining at this year's WSOP, FCP claims that
this already guarantees $16 250 to FCP promotional participants.
Negreanu, a three-time WSOP gold bracelet winner, will play almost
every day throughout the six-week WSOP as he tries his hand at sweeping
tournaments and winning the 2006 Main Event's $10 million prize.
At the end of the tournament, the five percent from FCP will be split
into two prize pools, divided equally. One prize pool will be shared
amongst online members that wear FCP branded apparel exclusively during
any of the WSOP events they play. The second prize pool will be given
to any FCP- apparel-wearing community member that makes it to a televised
WSOP final table.
"The 'Wear The Name, Share The Fame' promotion is FullContactPoker.com
and Negreanu's way of showing support for the FCP community. We're
thrilled that Daniel's gotten off to such a great start at this year's
WSOP and that eligible FCP members have the chance to share in his
success just by wearing FCP apparel," said Henry Chu, President
of Big Stack Enterprises.
According to the iGaming web traffic report (Based on site traffic
and not poker room size) the following are the most frequented online
poker sites at present.
1. Party Poker
2. Pacific Poker
3. Absolute Poker
4. Full Contact poker
5. Bodog Poker
Purists would argue that the order is more usually:
1) Party Poker
2) Poker Stars
3) Ongame - Poker Room/skins
4) Pacific
5) Prima - skins
But with the large number of networks and major online poker sites,
there will inevitably be conflicting opinions!