PokerShare.com Isn’t Bluffing the Kentucky County
30 September 2005

PokerShare.com, one of the latest and greatest poker sites to hit the World Wide Web, wasn’t bluffing when they offered a whopping $100 thousand to a Kentucky County to have their company name permanently stamped on the community.

It was verified that Poker Share officials are offering this generous sum of money to Sharer, a hamlet of Western Kentucky, which currently has no grocery store, post office or city council to call its own, if they agree to change their name to PokerShare.com.

Poker Share’s proposition has left Hugh Evans the Butler County Judge-Executive pondering the situation. Sure it sounds intriguing, but when it comes down to it, he admits he’s not wild about the idea of changing the name of the county to one associated with gambling.

Evans recently said that while he can’t speak for everybody in the county, he certainly can speak for himself, and as far as he is concerned, there is no way the proposal is going to fly. The fact of the matter is the small county of Sharer is very conservative, and poker and gambling isn’t what their about.

As was found in the book, Kentucky Place Names, the small county of Sharer, was established on February 15, 1900, and was named after either Postmaster Moses J. Sharer or his family.
 
According to Darren Shuster, a public relations agent that works for Poker Share, the reason why Poker Share originally chose to give Sharer first dibs on their proposal is because of the similarity the county’s name has to the company. Shuster said that he found Sharer by simply doing a search on MapQuest at Yahoo’s search engine.

Only time will tell who Poker Share will offer their proposal to next.