The best online poker sites engage popular professional players
as their brand ambassadors. Whenever these professional poker
players participate in land based events they wear the logo of
the online poker site they represent. They play all their online
poker cash games at the site they are attached to, sometimes
participating in special tournaments carrying their name. It is
a thrill and an honor for online poker players to play alongside
their favorites, something they can never hope to do in land
poker events.
Full Tilt Poker is one of the leading online poker sites. Its brand ambassadors are known as Team Full Tilt. Team Full Tilt has two of the current best online poker players, Phil Ivey (in picture) and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan. Ivey won $476,000 over the last weekend playing high stakes poker at Full Tilt. Last year Tom Dwan challenged fellow Full Tilt professional Patrik Antonius to a one-to-one duel in poker. However this seems to have fizzled out because neither player has the time.
Equally popular in the United States is the online poker site PokerStars. Daniel Negreanu heads the list of brand ambassadors at PokerStars. Negreanu is more of a live tournament player and his life time tournament earnings are more than any other player. The brand ambassadors of PokerStars are called Team PokerStars Pro. The latest to join this team is Isildur1 who played online poker for a long time winning a lot of money but without revealing his real identity.
The online poker site Absolute Poker till some time back had the two biggest names in poker as their brand ambassadors. These were Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke. Both left Absolute Poker a few months ago. Now the main ambassadors at Absolute poker are three female players Trishelle Cannatella, Tiffany Michele and Maria Ho, who are known more for their charm and sex appeal than poker playing abilities.
PartyPoker is an international online poker site with a big following in the United Kingdom and Europe. It does not cater to players from the United States. The ambassadors of PartyPoker are Mike Sexton, Tony G and Kara Scott. Sexton is known more for the administration of poker events and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2009.