Stars of Aces.com’s Poker Movie Launch Blog & Podcast

July 19, 2006 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Upcoming Episodes Will Feature Live Podcasts from WSOP

Las Vegas, NV (PR Leap) – The stars of the sexy new poker movie presented by online casino Aces.com have launched a new blog and a premiere podcast episode to share their experiences shooting the film in Las Vegas and Rio de Janeiro. The cast will be in Las Vegas for the Championship weekend of the WSOP, July 27 – 30 and will publish their blog and podcast from The Strip.

The blog –Three Girls, One Summer, No Limit – is at acesmovie.blogspot.com where there is a link to the movie trailer video and to the girls’ podcast. The free podcast is also available at iTunes.

ACES the Movie is a sexy thriller about three beautiful, smart college girls that take on the underground card room circuit in Las Vegas. They eventually get caught cheating but they’re just as smart as they are beautiful and they end up in Rio de Janeiro beating some very high rollers at their own game. The movie will be released by Warner Brothers and Polychrome Pictures in the fall; Aces.com is doing promotional events throughout the summer and will be hosting a DVD release party in September.

So far in their blog, ACES stars Lacey Toups, Christina Morris and Sheena Chou have written about learning to play Texas Hold’em for their roles, and how much they enjoyed shooting the final beach scene. Their first podcast is an interview with Sheena where she talks about searching the back woods villages of Brazil with director Daniel Zirilli looking for a poker game, and about learning to play poker as a pre-schooler from her elderly Chinese great-uncle.

“We had a lot of fun shooting ACES in Vegas. I can’t wait to go back,” said Christina Morris, whose ACES character acts as the seductive decoy that distracts high rollers while her team cheats them out of their money.

“They’ve got this crazy schedule of interviews and photo sessions and special appearances for us,” said Lacey Toups who plays the brainy ‘mark’ in the movie. “I don’t know where we’ll find time for blogging, but I promise we will! As Christina says in our movie ‘One night in Vegas – we’re asking for trouble!’ If she’s the party girl she was in Rio then we’re going to have some good stories and wild pictures for our blog, that’s for sure!”

“We’re going to be hosting the Wednesday Night Free Roll Tournaments at Aces.com,” said Sheena, the spoilt Chinese schoolgirl in the movie. “I doubt I’ll win but that’s OK. The prize each week is a trip to our DVD Release Party in LA and I already have my invitation to that anyway!”

This Wednesday night (11:00 pm EDT), Lacey Toups hosts the Free Roll at Aces.com where another winner will win a trip to the DVD Release Party. Director Daniel Zirilli will host the online poker tournament the following week and it will be Sheena’s turn the week after. Christina will host August 2nd.

The cast’s blog will feature live reports from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas July 27th to 30th.

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Further information on Aces.com’s sponsorship of ACES the Movie can be found in the online Media Kit. For information on Aces.com or ACES the Movie, or to arrange an interview with the film’s cast, please contact:

Larry Colcy, Publicist
Lyceum Media
Larry@LyceumMedia.com
Vancouver: (604) 685-6240

About Aces.com
Aces.com offers everything Las Vegas gamblers enjoy: casino games, poker rooms, horses and sports betting. The popular retro-Vegas style site is part of the world’s largest internet gambling company, Sportingbet Plc (publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange). Millions of players have placed billions of dollars in wagers in this safe and secure environment. This summer, Aces.com brings the exciting world of poker to the screen, sponsoring the sexy new poker movie, ACES.