All day in the right-hand margin of the pages of live news updates from the World Series of Poker, the PokerNews site has been flashing this two-part advertisement from the WSOP Academy:
Would you trust them to be able to teach you how to win a bracelet if they can't even spell "bracelet"?
Ironically, Phil Hellmuth, one of the featured instructors in this school, famously taunted an opponent in the WSOP a few years back with the line, "You can't even spell poker!"
Well, can you, Phil?
(Tip o' the fedora to Shamus for pointing out this gaffe to me.)
Addendum, June 12, 2008
One of the execs at PokerNews contacted me by email and said that it was PN--specifically their Lithuania-based web team--that designed and is responsible for the ad. The WSOP Academy is not to blame. I see that it has already been remedied.
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What Shamus forgot to mention to you was that PokerNews.com created that ad and made the spelling error, not the WSOP Academy.
Shamus didn't forget to mention that because he doesn't know who created the ad.
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