Trishelle Cannatella lands sponsorship deal with SureBet Poker

Model, actress, and poker player Trishelle Cannatella is now amongst the very few poker players who have landed post-Black Friday sponsorship deals, as she has officially inked a deal with the still to be launched Surebet Poker –Amanda Leatherman also landed a deal with Bodog which gives a good indication of precisely what type of US poker player sites are looking for these days.

Trishelle posted the news on her Twitter account Monday, stating “So excited to announce I have officially signed with @surebetpoker ! Site launches October 1st so go register to play with me :)” which coincided with a small piece in Ante Up Magazine where Sure Bet CEO Jason Sallman said, “We couldn’t be happier to have her on the team… She is a great addition, and I think the poker world will see big things from her in the near future.”

Sure Bet Poker is set to launch on October 1^st, and according to their website will offer the following promotions:

• Play for Free
• Great Bonuses For Reaching Status Levels
• Live Customer Service
• Offering a Lower Rake then Major Poker Sites
• Great Deposit Bonus
• All of Your Favorite Games
• Play with Team Sure Bet Poker Right at the Table

Sure Bet Poker is also offering the first 100 players that register at the site $5 absolutely free, with no deposit required; the next 300 players will all receive $1 in their poker account as a gift from Sure Bet Poker.

Cannatella’s first brush with the spotlight was her appearance on the Real World: Las Vegas, and has appeared on a number of Reunion shows for both the Real World and Road Rules. Cannatella has also appeared in numerous films and TV shows, as well as having posed for Playboy Magazine.

As a poker player, Cannatella has a single cash on her resume, a $20,000 score for finishing in third place at the 2010 WPT Celebrity Invitational at the LA Poker Classic tournament series. She also came out victorious at the 2010 Trash Talk Championship of the World, a charity event that took place at the Hard Rock Casino.

Cannatella will join poker pro and writer Mike Wolf, as well as Sure Bet CEO and tournament poker player Jason Sallman as members of Team Sure Bet. In addition to the trio of players that make up Team Sure Bet, tournament poker pro Kyle Cartwright  is listed as a “friend of Sure Bet” on their website.