 Dancing
With The Stars Poker
Beauty Forces Ayre
to Banish Employees
to Indian
ReservationBy most accounts, the Kahnawake Indian Reserve far outside of Montreal, Quebec is cold, dreary and - no offense to the Kahnawakes - a little boring. A testament to this observation is that Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre chooses not to live there but he is forcing a large number of employees to move there....all because of a Dancing With The Stars poker beauty, Shannon Elizabeth. Ayre, we have learned, is livid over the fact that Ms. Elizabeth has become such a big star and her appearance on ABC's monster hit, Dancing With the Stars, only serves to reinforce this fact. Of course, he wishes his close celebrity friend all the best but remains despondent over the fact that his key poker staff failed to close the deal - that being to have Shannon Elizabeth represent Bodog Poker. Shannon's asking price was not immediately known, though she has previously appeared on a Bodog produced poker program. When told they would have to move to Kahnawake, many of Ayre's long time employees instead elected to resign. Online poker affiliate managers were among the first to be cut. "I have been dealing with xxxxx for years and now he is no longer with the company," bellowed one online poker affiliate. Ayre's current crop of poker pros (classified as Team Bodog) include the beautiful but shy seeming Evelyn Ng, a divisive figure by the name of Josh Arieh and a granny porking, toe sucking magician by the name of David Williams who once turned down an offer to become Gambling911.com sexy reporter Jenny Woo's MySpace friend. To see where we are going with this, well respected poker pro, Daniel Negreanu, requested to be Jenny's friend the first day the Gambling911.com MySpace page went up. "Depending on how deep Shannon Elizabeth goes with Dancing With the Stars, the amount of publicity she would have garnered for Bodog Poker is likely to prove extraordinary," explains Payton O'Brien, Gambling911.com Senior Editor. "The dance competition is huge." So popular is Dancing With the Stars that Gambling911.com has provided the show with its very own blog. "Betting on this show last season was phenomenal and the ratings keep exploding," O'Brien said. Should Shannon bust out early, Bodog Poker could save face. For his part, Ayre has denied banishing employees to Indian reservations because of the Shannon Elizabeth faux pas. Instead he claims that the Kahnawake Mohawks are now managing Bodog and he wants his employees to become more "in touch with the earth". --- Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher CCostigan@CostiganMedia.com Originally published March 17, 2008 1:17 am EST
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