ZeeJustin Gets Banned From Party Poker

Regular readers of 2+2 are probably very familiar with tournament guru, ZeeJustin. According to a few different sources ZeeJustin had his accounts frozen at Party. According to Party, they fingered him for having multiple accounts and having played in tournaments under more than one of those identities at the same time. This comes fresh on …

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Poker Marketing Backfires

Yes, another guerilla (or gorilla depending on your taste) marketing stunt. Online poker site Pokershow decided to drum up a little PR by putting up a video aimed at being offensive to Muslims then creating a fake Muslim activists group to protest the video. The idea was that this would take off as a viral …

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Party Poker Troubles

Seems like PartyPoker is introduced people to a world of pain with the new interface design. How many of our PC’s were f***ed by party? Party Lobby Not Updating Can you think of a major company, ever messing up worse? Party update – how much of our edge is gone? Players boycott of party already …

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Forget A WSOP Seat, You Can Win A Hooker

Yes, another site that obviously falls into the Gorilla Marketing group of online poker rooms, Sinful Poker, is offering a 69 cent satellite into a tournament that nets you: * A trip to Costa Rica * 3 Nights Hotel * A Hooker The absolute best part about this promotion is the following line in the …

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Online Poker, Bubbles, Bursts, and Marketing

Ok, so I’ve been saving up some posts that I wanted to talk about but I haven’t gotten around to it. I’ll steal the infamous uber-post format because . . . I’m lazy. It wasn’t all that long ago that people were predicting the burst of the poker bubble. At the time I was convinced …

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