Holyfield spokesperson Real Deal poker
Evander Holyfield just finished playing in the Ante up for Africa event at the World Series of Poker and he’ll now encourage people to virtually ante up as a spokesperson for a relatively new poker site, Real Deal Poker.
Real Deal Poker takes pride in being the only online poker sites that deals its players “real” cards when they are playing poker. It seems only natural, then, that the site would find a spokesperson that embodies “the real deal”. Since Evander is known as Evander “the real deal” Holyfield, it seems the company has found its spokesperson.
"'Real Deal' is who I am," Holyfield said. "Like today, if you would have told people, 'Bring Evander onto the poker thing and have him take pictures there.' How many people do you think would say, 'I don't know, I don't think he's hot (anymore).' We get out here and they had to stop it because there were so many people taking pictures."
Real Deal Poker launched on May 7; those behind the site know that it’s a gamble in today’s world of big and powerful online poker companies. That also ties to boxer Holyfield.
“The idea was the fight to bring real poker online,” said Gene Gioia, the founder and president of Real Deal. “We realize getting into the business is mammoth. The perception for online poker is obviously PokerStars, Sportsbook.com Poker and Absolute Poker.net. For a new breed to come in is a daunting task.”
But the realities haven’t scared Gioia.
“We’re going to use the fact that we deal real card and if that doesn’t convince you we got Evander Holyfield to know you out,” Gioia said.
