The newly launched online poker room Aced.com has recently signed a contract with a winner from the WSOP of 2006 main event. Jamie Gold who took home the whopping first prize of 12 million dollars has signed the contract to represent the online casino in future tournaments and poker games on going for an unknown amount of time commencing this year.

The online poker room thinks that it will be great to put a now well known poker face to their online name in hopes of getting more recognition and making themselves a well known and frequently visited website on the list of poker sites around the world.

The controversy between many online casinos and sponsoring live game poker players is that many of them are based out of the US and since online gaming for money is not widely accepted in the US the online casinos and famous poker players sometimes find it difficult to work together.

Poker pros do not like to be put under any scrutiny and thus try to stay away from situations that would create this.

Currently the most popular online poker room that has a enough celebrity names to fill a poker room is Full Tilt poker with names such as Gus Hanson, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harmon and that is just to name a few.

Sites do claim that having celebrity poker pro representation can ultimately increase their popularity and make them a much more profitable company in the long run but there is also a serious amount of money that goes into sponsoring these celebrities and keeping them on the payroll.

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