I have been working with Lock Poker and Bluff Magazine for ages on this now and we finally started promoting yesterday. You should hopefully start seeing it everywhere in the next few days. I won’t be going into the nitty gritty of the promo here as it will be all over Poker News Boy in the coming weeks. So I hope you check out PNB for all the latest details on the Bluff Pro Challenge.

However, this is the biggest thing PNB has ever been involved with and should be massive for all three sites involved. But probably moreso PokerNewsBoy as we have the most to gain. I have been making deals giving away favours and pretty much doing summersults to get this deal sorted with Lock and Bluff. Even though Bluff is the main focus for the Promo, PNB has as much involvement and was involved at every stage of getting this promo sorted. To be 100% honest it was originally my idea. So that will explain why PNB is involved. As I am sure some people are wondering how I managed to get PNB involved with two sites as well respected and known as Lock Poker and Bluff Media.

Over the coming week I will be calling in a few favours and trying to get this as out there as possible. However, if you wish to help or looking for a costum post on the Bluff Pro Challenge let me know and I’ll get an article to you.

So here is the official press release from Lock Poker:

Lock Poker and Bluff partner again! This time the world is invited to the Bluff Pro Challenge

The BPC sponsored by Lock Poker is set to kick off on April 1st.  Bluff, Lock and PokerNewsBoy are giving you the chance to show the world who is the best of the best. Time to take your game to the next level.

The prizes include the player being on the July 2011 cover of Bluff Magazine, as well as featured in a 6 month marketing campaign, and signed to a 2 year LockPRO ELITE Sponsorship and a WSOP Main Event Seat.

“The first Bluff Online Poker Challenge was a revolutionary concept in poker to try to find who the best tournament players in the world were, this time Lock Poker and Bluff are stepping it up a notch to try and determine the best poker player… period”  says Eric Rizen Lynch, “one month, one goal, whoever makes the most money wins. I’m looking forward to finding out who emerges from the challenge and getting to know the next big thing in poker!”

“We are so excited to be doing this type of challenge with Lock again. We really are in a new generation of poker where online Pros are the new rockstars,” said Eric Morris, President of Bluff Magazine. “We want to be a part of making the next amazing player really matter. This is a life changing moment for any serious poker player out there and we are excited to be a part of it.”

Each player begins the competition with the bankroll of their choice and has the entire month of April to build their bankroll playing in ring games, multi-table tournaments and SNGs exclusively on LockPoker.com. The winner the player who shows the greatest profit. Players are permitted to reload their account at any time during the 30 days. The minimum weekly play required is 250 SNGs/MTTs or 2000 raked hands.

The BPC begins April 1st and runs through until Midnight on April 30th. Fans can follow all the action through the daily scoreboard and video blogs from the players at www.lockpoker.com/challenge.

BLUFF

BLUFF Magazine is America’s leading poker publication and BluffMagazine.com is the leading website for poker news and player rankings in the world. BLUFF is home to exclusive columnists like WSOP bracelet winners Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly who take readers inside the world of poker’s elite each month.

LOCK

Lock is the world’s most innovative online gaming brand. Lock launched their first masterpiece, Lock Poker, over two years ago and recently launched their ground breaking Casino. They exploded into poker industry by introducing the Bluff Online
Poker challenge, becoming the first company to develop a Mac download casino and hiring Eric Rizen Lynch as their VP of Product development. Lock continues to bring a fresh perspective to this exciting industry and its mandate is to drive innovation through superior design and initiative. http://www.lockpoker.com & http://www.lockcasino.com

POKER NEWS BOY

PokerNewsBoy.com is the Internet’s leading source for poker news, information, and exclusive bonuses and promotional offers. Since its inception, PokerNewsBoy has grown into one of the poker world’s most recognizable brands and has developed into one of the poker industry’s most trusted online poker portals.

As PokerNewsBoy continues to grow you can expect the same level of dedication and expertise from their owners, management and staff. Visit the PokerNewsBoy homepage at www.pokernewsboy.com

If you are looking more info on the Bluff Pro Challenge make sure to visit http://pokernewsboy.com

However, lets get to what everyone wants to read. The important updates:

1. First thing I want to do is thank everyone who voted PNB in the IGB Affiliate Awards. PNB made the final cut in the Best Newcomer (Affiliate) category. So now it’s down to the last 10, I better start preparing my winners speech and sorting out travel and accommodation. In all seriousness I can’t see past BettingPro.com winning. There site is seriously sik. Just don’t know if they can be counted as Newcomers, but think they by far have the best site. Still cool to be nominated though.

2. The second thing to announce is the PNB Poker Awards and PNB Forum launch. Last month we launched the forum and a day or two ago we announced the first PNB Poker Awards for players to vote in. So I’m asking everyone who bothers to read this to pop over to the PNB Poker Forums, register and vote in the awards. Also feel free to leave some views in the forum. Could do with all the help trying to get the forum started.

3. Thats me and the family settled into the new house. Great having all the extra room. Plus the games room is awesome now, just full of boys toys. Xbox, Wii, Laptop and my computer. But its great to have all the extra space to breath, especially coming upto Xmas. Only problem is as we have all the spare room, we invited everyone for Xmas dinner. Now have 14 coming to dinner. Which I have to cook.

4. Other big step foward for PNB was PNB becoming the official Poker News source for PokerSpace. It’s pretty cool and means that PNB has the resources to reach many new poker players and it helps us by PNB being able to offer bigger promotions to our readers and gives PNB more credibility. Also makes it possible for PNB to give away free money at poker sites thanks to PokerSpace.

5. We also have two massive promotions starting in January and Febuary, both involving Lock Poker. First is the crazy freerolls that only PNB and PokerNews.com players are eligible for. In total they are four 10k freerolls, which involves $7.5k in the prizepool and 25 $100 bounties available to be won. Should have crazy value for the poker players that are eligible. Just sign up using Lock Poker Bonus Code: PNB1200. That bonus code will get you a 200% bonus up to $1200, plus means you can play in the $10k freerolls.

The other big promo is the BE A PRO competition that PNB and Bluff will be holding on Lock Poker. Can’t really go into much details as it’s still all top secret. But this is going to be massive. Just watch this space

Thats about all I can think about. But if you fancy posting anything on here, send me a email or message. And we can sort something out.

First up is a promo for my Poker Affiliate friends over at PAL. I am going to give away $100 to the top two affiliates who rank for the term “Poker News Boy Relaunched“. So this is me trying to give back to the community that helped get me and PNB where it is today. I would also like to thanks the members for there kind words about PNB. That was great to wake upto.

Another new thing that some of you like to read PNB is the addition of the PNB Newsletter. This will be a weekly newsletter that will go out every monday. It will just be a quick recap of what happened in the poker world that week. So abit excited about that, and I hope you’s all sign up.

I also have a crazy link sale going on over at PAL. I am doing the unthinkable and giving away quility permenent links for $40. All these links go in new posts before they are published so that they are there when google first indexs the page. I have not went totally crazy though, as I am limiting this to 50 links and a max of 10 links per affiliate. Compared to what I usually charge this is an extreme bargain.

What else? There is also plans for an affiliate news section going up on PNB, this should be pretty cool and will be looking some help and particapation from my poker affiliate friends.

That is pretty much all I can mention, there is still a few big suprises in the horison but I’ll keep them under raps till closer to the time. But things are going good for PNB.

p.s if your looking any links contact me on Skype: pokernewsboy.

For over the last week I have been talking to a number of affiliates who have been interested in joining PNB, even nearly accepting 2 offers before turning them down or talks breaking down at the last minute. I think in total I had 7 people enquires before accepting the offer from Kevin.

Kevin is better known as his PAL username (Kef272) and is also the owner of The Poker Fish, as well as many more mini sites. He is an expieranced affiliate and has been affiliating for over 4 years. However, this isn’t really why it was Kevin that I choose in the end up. The biggest reason was the fact that he wanted to help, he wanted to be involved. Which was exactly what I was looking. I was wanting to find an affiliate who was as excited about the places PNB can go, and wanted to help it get their. Thats why in the end up Kevin was an easy choice.

So now Kevin owns 37.5% of PokerNewsBoy.com, and I am excited to have him come onboard. I now own 50% with our silent partner Stevie Devlin (AllinStevie) owning the final 12.5%. Hopefully this is the winning team to take PNB to the hights it can go.

Other recent news, is that a day after Kevin signing up to PNB, it also gets accepted into Google News. That just could be a good omen. I’ll also write a blog post at a later date to try and help a few people on how to get into Google News, just don’t take it as gospel, just why I think I got into Goole News, and what I changed to do so.

I hope you keep an eye out for all the big changes soon to happen over at PNB, and I will also try and keep you’s 3 or 4 readers of my blog updated.

p.s. Also getting a new mascot made. I’m looking foward to seeing that finished. You can see the progress so far in the pic above.