Got a survey from my old UB account today, it's pasted below. What a fail at the idea itself and all the slogans they came up with.

In before facepalm.jpg

Marketing types. A different breed.

Hopefully they get shut down soon. But if that doesn't happen, it would be nice if they didn't equate poker and addiction in their slogan.

This would be only be dumber if they decided to refer to their "young, trendy, serious poker players" as "superusers."


Their attempt to try to pry the annoying d-bag demographic from Full Tilt will be amusing though.

Big LOL at those patronizing slogan choices that imply we're all frothing addicts. Obsessively obsessed with poker? I'd really like to see the genius that came up with that one. Mad Men they ain't.

We're Douchebags. Cereously.

"Absolute Poker is considering opening a sister poker room specifically for young, trendy, serious poker players only."

OK princess.

Does this hat make my ass look fat?

It's about time they got the brainwave to create a new site with a different name. LOL at creating "Cereus" while keeping the tainted names of AP and UB.

Of course I hope it ends in miserable failure.

But I fear it won't.

i LOL'd when i got this survey. yeah, just what everyone wants. a site geared towards regulars? now we can get into an ego match with all the other 20-something yr old high stakes HU regulars all day. plz.

lmk when they have a site geared towards people who AREN'T serious about poker. that one i'd gladly join.

Ain't that the truth!!

They already have two.

god I miss party. their commercails were so dumb they were barely watchable, and brought in exactly the players I wanted to see.

Raise. Stack. Own.

FTMFW!

edit: what happens when players are slightly older and less trendy? instaban?

LOL

I LOL'd hard

Juk

this is a fail on so many levels.

Profile Poker...for the selected few

"If you are cereus about poker"

"We are cereus" - this name is instant facepalm already, maybe they should start working with that first

This is disgusting on all known levels

and some unknown ones I'm sure

I think their attempts to market to "young, trendy, serious" (aka as "recreational and sucky") is what you generally should want from a site I would think. Way better than the more serious approach that I feel FT and Stars puts out there to "learn from the pros."

Marketing towards players who essentially "really really like poker because it's fun to 'own' players" or something like that works for me.

I would prefer it if Stars were to take one of these marketing approaches/slogans actually. And the recreational players I know who have played before and might consider playing again I think would respond better to ANY of these slogans than watching some PokerStars chick bungee-cord jump off a bridge.

Just not a fan at all of Stars current approach. I don't like all the slogans they are trying to come up with for their trendy-hipsters or whatever they are aiming for. But a couple of them I would be really fine with if Stars went that direction instead of whatever they are doing now because I think it would be more likely to bring in the types of players I would want to see at the tables.

young, trendy, serious poker players only

Cringe....Sounds like my mother is leading that marketing campaign.

abso4kinglootly

What advertising agency created the Party TV ads?

actually, it might just be such a bad idea that it attracts the right type of people.

like the kid who tries so hard to be cool, that he isn't. maybe the fish will be like "i'm young, trendy, and a poker god, I'm going to that site"

raise. stack. own. i'm gonna use that one!!