MIKEY IS REAL

The earlier InfoPowa bulletin reporting the rumour that PokerShare intended to enter a poker-trained chimpanzee in the manin World Series of Poker event has been confirmed by a company spokesman.

Alex Van Klaveren of GameShare , the Gibraltar-based parent group for PokerShare responded thus to an InfoPowa enquiry about the rumour:

"Thanks for your email.  Your sources are accurate.  We have been training Mikey for the past 4 months and he is now ready to play the WSOP main event. We will be issuing a press release by the end of the week."

Van Klaveren did not comment on whether this ploy had the cooperation of the WSOP tournament director, saying in response to a direct question on this: "I agree, it should be interesting to see what people make of it.  Mikey has a blog which is starting soon where you will be able to follow his progress."