Celtic Cashes In With Poker Room

Scottish football giants announce partnership with online poker room

The deal will see them become the latest football club to open their own online poker room.  The new venture is powered by a leading online poker network and will join that company's burgeoning network.
 
The new site will enable players to form poker teams to play against each other as well as renowned Celtic footie heroes, and forms part of an income generating scheme to help finance a new training facility and the club’s youth development programmes. The new site claims to offer a "host of prizes", including a place in the Online Poker Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas.
 
A spokeman of the online poker room said: "Our aim is to develop an online poker community, both within Celtic and through inter-club tournaments. Players will soon be able to play against teams from other Scottish Premier League (SPL) football clubs in a new online poker tournament which could culminate in a Scotland poker team playing against an England poker team."
 
While there are other Scottish clubs who are affiliated to poker sites, such as Hibernian and Kilmarnock, Celtic are the first to have their own site.