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Members Of SONATA ARCTICA And DARK TRANQUILLITY Form Poker Team

May 12, 2009

Members of SONATA ARCTICA and DARK TRANQUILLITY have joined forces to form Rockstars of Poker, a poker team which aims to give fans a chance to meet their heroes while playing poker online.

Rockstars of Poker works together with Betfriends.com and gives everyone a chance to challenge the team totally free. In addition to the prizepool sponsored by Betfriends.com, whoever kicks any of the team members out of each tournament gets special band-related prizes.

Rockstars of Poker co-founder Henrik Klingenberg (of SONATA ARCTICA) explains: "Me and Marko (Paasikoski, SONATA ARCTICA) and Martin (Brändström) as well as Martin (Henriksson, both of DARK TRANQUILLITY) met over a couple of beers at a festival in Italy last summer and found out that we're all really into poker. Later we stayed in touch and at some point a poker playing friend of ours asked us why we don't have our own tournaments."

As both bands have gotten several requests for chat meetings and different online interaction with their fans, they decided to join forces and combine a dear hobby with a little bit of "work."

"Instead of just chatting online which is not really our thing (mind you, we're a bunch of rock dudes in our 30, who like beer),we thought that we might as well play some poker while we meet up with whoever has something they want to know....or say," says Klingenberg. "The best thing is that it's totally free for everyone so you really don't have to be good at poker, but you still have a chance to win some money and prizes as well as ask us anything, so everybody wins."

The next tournament is scheduled to take place on May 17 at 21:00 CET. Just log on to www.rockstarsofpoker.info to find out how to register.

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