Viral Blogger Poker Tournament

October 21, 2005 1:27 AM

Viral Blogger Poker Tournament On a recent CardPlayer article and WWdN post, there is mention of an interesting poker tournament that works off of viral blog marketing. While blogs and poker have had a rocky past when bloggers fought back against search spammers, this appears to be a "opt-in" marketing angle that is being embraced by the poker blogsphere as well as a number of mainstream blogs. Is this a case of beneficial or underhanded marketing? And will other sites try this in the future?
posted by hostile7 (5 comments total)

Hey hostile.

The link to your website (tightpoker) in your profile needs to be fixed.

From your site:
"In the meantime, I will pimp out PokerStars.com some more right now"

Countdown commences.....
posted by srboisvert at 3:35 AM on October 21, 2005

Is this a case of beneficial or underhanded marketing?

underhanded

two... one...
posted by three blind mice at 3:43 AM on October 21, 2005

At least it won't take you long to win the $5 necessary to register "hostile8".

See you later!
posted by NinjaPirate at 4:54 AM on October 21, 2005

Seriously, I don't trust poker sites any more than I trust porn sites to market responsibly. So many comment spams, so many referrral spams. I can no longer stand it. Thank god b2evol has a blacklist function, and I can catch most of this stuff before it happens.
posted by thanotopsis at 5:41 AM on October 21, 2005

And will other sites try this in the future?

Probably, and hopefully with the same result. Delete-o!
posted by fixedgear at 6:13 AM on October 21, 2005