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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.
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