CASINO CITY TIMES -- Mar 9 -- PartyPoker.com and Lavalife are teaming up to offer a free 11-week long No Limit Texas Hold'Em tournament series that offers single poker players a chance to meet new people while playing cards online. Players interested in participating must be members of both Lavalife, which provides both land-based and online dating services, and partypoker.com, a leading online poker casino. Both memberships are free. www.lavalifepokerchallenge.com. RELEASE @ CASINO CITY TIMES

Mark Brooks: I think certain brands work well with poker. Hold on, isn't internet gambling illegal in the USA. How's that going to work? Lavalife is Canadian, so this is a nice differentiator for them that US companies can't really offer.