[Note: The sub-tabs to this one are specific to TheSimoneTeam Poker Promo #1]
We like to come up with fun and creative ways of promoting our Real Estate and Mortgage business.We hope you will join us for a chance to play in the 2008 WSOP with the pros!Chris
enjoys playing poker and has had the opportunity to play in the WSOP in
Vegas and knows that most poker players would love the chance to go and
play.That’s how the idea for these promotions came to be.
The first of these
promotions ran from November 2007 through June 2008. It was a series
of free monthly tournaments that resulted in people qualifying for a
2-Table Live Grand Finale event for a $1700 World Series of Poker prize
package to Vegas. The winner of this event was Ed Stacy of Campbell.
At the same time as this promotion was going on, I held another
promotion (www.TheSimoneTeamREFI.com) resulting in another lucky
player, Marcus Lam of Fremont, winning a WSOP prize package. One
additional participant took the easy road to getting their free WSOP
entry...they simply referred a friend of theirs that needed some real
estate assistance in our direction and they were rewarded with an entry!
On June 27th, the winners above and myself were joined by fellow participant Michael Migdol in Las Vegas to play in Event #49 of the 2008 World Series of Poker. Here is a copy of the trip report:
Several of you have asked me how it
went in Vegas for the
World Series of Poker this last weekend so I thought I'd send this
out to everyone. It was a great time! Ed Stacy (estacy1373),
Marcus Lam (Style Poker), Jeff Howell (jmh_pt), Michael Migdol
(modaddy),
and I all played in WSOP event #49. Some of their friends came to
Vegas to get in on the fun too. Jeff, Marcus, and I all busted out pretty
early. Jeff had a particularly bad beat...pocket Kings...flopped K44 (a
dream flop right?)...he ended up all-in after the flop and his opponent
turned over QUAD FOURS! Unreal! For me, it was my nemesis hand (QQ)
that knocked me out of ANOTHER world series. I was getting a little short
stacked...re-raised all-in pre-flop and got a caller with AQ. He hit an
Ace
on the turn. The ladies did me in AGAIN!! Ed made it further until
he
was crippled when his AQ ran into AK. He ended up getting knocked out
by professional poker player Andrew Black. Michael made it the furthest
(he was the only one that made it to the dinner break). He had ~$15k in
chips, got pot committed with an AQ and unfortunately ran into AA.
Another
tough break.
Even though winning that hand would have sent Michael deep into the
tourney don't feel too bad for him. He sat down shortly afterwards and
played ‘Let-it-Ride'. He hit a Royal Flush and won $50,000!!!!
I think
it is safe to say that he was the big winner for the weekend!
Amazing!
He immediately went and registered into the WSOP main event that starts
this week...Good luck Michael!
I want to thank all those that participated in this fun promotion. I hope
you all enjoyed yourselves. I had a great time meeting/playing with all
of
you. It was such a great time that I plan on doing it again. Keep
an eye
out for an email announcing the next poker promotion.
Good luck all,
Chris
The Simone Team: Chris & Francine Simone (408)772-7113
