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"Have you noticed the fanfare that accompanies a new signing for an online poker room? The press release, the photo shopped images, and the buffed out biographies.

It’s not quite the same when their contracts end though is it?"

http://www.pokerupdate.com/news/networks-and-rooms/the-death-of-the-full-tilt-poker-red-pro/

having a roster of 'faces' playing games most cant afford to play cant be great can it? they must add value somehow, but it makes little sense to me.

i'd imagine having a mixture of well known personalities and poker names regularly dropping into low - midstakes player pools would be a much bigger driver of action.

ok, kanu7 is a boss player, nice kid and comes across really well, but is he going to pull players into games? search him and you'll find him sitting across multiple tables each with $40k sat in front of him. often he'll sat out with another reg waiting for a rich recreational looking to do in 5% of his quarterly bonus over a few hours. his story of rising through the stakes is fairly inspiring though, so if you can get people to engage with that and watch his promo vid then fair enough.

ditto jake cody. if you can afford to buy into a $200 - $1000, 4000-field tourny then you may be lucky enough to play a few hands with a fella most poker players wouldnt recognise if they passed him in the street.

make em earn their pay-check. get them playing at stakes where people dont respect their rasies i say.

i'd much rather have the chance  to play a few sng's with rafa nadal / ronaldo than rail kanu7 and wcg sitting out against each other with an average person's annual wage in front of them. i know which i feel would drive more new players to the site