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After taking the poker world by storm just a short while ago by making it through an enormous field at this year’s World Series of Poker main event to finish 17th, Tiffany Michelle is not the subject of controversy over loyalty to Pokernews, her employer and sponsor for the event.

Apparently the 24-year-old actress turn poker player from Los Angeles wore an Ultimate Bet logo, in addition to the Pokernews logo, during the WSOP main event, though she had an exclusive agreement with Pokernews.

Michelle believes she did nothing wrong because many other players at the event could be seen wearing multiple logos, and claims that Pokernews is slandering her.

“As we all know, it is standard practice for players to wear multiple logos during the main event,” Michelle said. “Pokernews was aware of this, having placed their logos on a number of players with sponsorship deal with other companies. Throughout the World Series I saw several players wear the Pokernews logo alongside logos of online card rooms such as Pokerstars and T6. This makes it very clear that Pokernews supported this practice as a rule and were not against players wearing their logo in conjunction with the logo of an online card room. Like many other people, I wore multiple logos but in no way diminished the presence of Pokernews in doing so.”

Many in the poker world understand that an exclusive agreement means that you are to be loyal to that one brand, and making deals without consulting that brand was a mistake on Michelle’s part.

“I would not have done what Tiffany Michelle did,” said Jenny Woo, Gambling911 reporter. “I would have been loyal to my employer. These are the types of arrangements that are made prior to an event like the 2008 World Series of Poker and with the consent of the folks who put food on my table, albeit I’m still hungry most of the time.”

The WSOP main event began with 6,844 players and is now down to the final nine, but will not continue play until November when the final table will be played out.

By Michael

gamingalerts.co.uk