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I don't know who Joanna Krupa is, or what she has to do with poker, but Grinder recently signed a totally sick longterm endorsement deal with Absolute Poker. You keep talking about the lack of ancillary potential that poker players get to enjoy now, so you must not be aware that people like the Grinder and Takeoever still have a lot of marketablility.

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Shane:

I stand corrected with respect to "The Grinder", whose
deal with AbsolutePoker has NOT been officially announced or implemented given that "The Grinder" hasn't appeared on any of AbsolutePoker's marketing material, not even in the weekly emails to the VIPs or on AbsolutePoker's websites as of May 25.

"The Grinder" should have gotten an online poker endorsement deal A LONG TIME AGO, long before the likes of "Blackjack Babe" Erica Schoenberg and Playboy cover girl Joanna Krupa have gotten their online poker endorsement deals.

I do know that Kenna James recently signed with SunPoker.com.

As for Nick "The Takeover" Schulman, I don't believe he has a longer-term deal yet even though he wore a "Full Tilt Poker" logo at the WPT Battle of Champions IV.