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Poker Agency Poker Icons Signs New Players & Opens Offices in UK, AsiaFri, Apr 10th, 2009 @ 12:00am
Poker Icons, a poker agency who represents players like Annette Obrestad, Juha Helppi, Peter Jepsen, Jesper Hougaard, Alex Kamberis, Chris Moorman, Brian Hawkins, John Tabatabai, Soren Kongsgaard have announced that they have opened offices in London and Macau, in addition to having representation in the eastern and southern part of Europe. The purpose of the expansion is to serve the growing list of players and partners from all over the world. They have increased the company's coverage from 12 to 14 offices worldwide. During the last 2 months they have also signed new players from around the world, listed here: * Denes Tamas Kalo - $2.5M lifetime winnings. * Richard Toth- $900,000 lifetime winnings, including a WSOP 2nd place finish. * Ryan Dreyer- Lifetime winnings of $700,000, including winning the Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament. Ryan is also ranked #1 amateur golfer as well as doing most of the poker commentary in South Africa. * Jay Kinkade- Lifetime winnings $210,000, including winning the Victorian Poker Championship. Online winnings $1.2M. * Alexiou Konstantinos- $400,000 lifetime winnings, including a EPT 4th place. * Jonas Klausen a shooting star from Denmark with $520,000 in lifetime winnings. including an EPT 8th place in addition to several cashes in other EPT's, WSOP and other international tournaments. Jonas is also a online phenom with several wins in the online majors. * Ivan Tan- Runner up in the APPT main event 2007. In addition Poker Icons have signed the top ranked (online) players from New Zealand. Per Hagen, Poker Icons President, commented about the UK office, saying: "I'm seriously excited about the opening of our UK office. Poker in the US has clearly seen substantial growth and has only recently shown signs of plateauing. We predict that Poker in the UK is about to experience a rapid explosion; we are now in a position to provide support thanks to the opening of our UK office." Per also explains that Poker Icons plan on piloting a new initiative in the UK, saying: "What we do best is arrange sponsorship packages for talented players due to the unique and special relationships we have with the online poker rooms. We have however recognized a need to provide additional support to new and existing players such as media training, legal support, financial advice, VIP perks and even career advice. Poker Icons UK will be the first to provide these additional services and if the pilot is successful then we will roll these services out worldwide." The UK President for Poker Icons is Glen Richardson and he found there was a lack of support for British Professional Poker Players and new talent. He therefore partnered with Poker Icons to establish their UK office due to their success and reputation in the European market. Glen expresses his enthusiasm for Poker Icons UK: "Business isn't just about money, for me it's more about doing something you enjoy and can be passionate about. I simply love Poker and I can't wait to get fully immersed in the UK poker scene." Dave Sito will be running the Asian Poker Icons office from Singapore and Macau, and he will be in charge of signing the talents and serving partners in the rapidly growing market of Asia. Poker Icons have already signed some of the top Asian players with Ivan Tan being one of them. In addition Poker Icons have also now got representation in the eastern part of Europe where they also have signed some high profiled players. Visit www.pokericons.com for more information about the poker agency.
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