PicksPal Crowns a Multi-Millionaire

Just one week after seeing its first player get one million points, the online sports picks game gets its first multi-million-point winner.

Mountain View, CALIF (PRWEB) November 9, 2005 -- PicksPal (www.PicksPal.com) proves that like all great records in sports, even unprecedented marks in sports picking are meant to be broken. PicksPal player “Tweeter” raised the bar to a new level by accumulating 3.4 million points in one week, obliterating the previous mark of just over one million points.

“Tweeter” reached the milestone on Sunday, accumulating over three million points with a combination of hockey and pro football picks. The Picking Order (the site’s main blog) hailed “He shattered the daily record, the all-time record and set himself apart as the Top Dog, The Big Cheese, El Grande Picker...and the King of PicksPal.”

The unprecedented million-point-mark was established just last week at PicksPal, only to be shattered by “Tweeter”, an apparent sport picks guru who relies on consecutive long shots to build points.

PicksPal (www.PicksPal.com) gives players 1000 points each week, which they can use to pick games and props from Pro Football, College Football, Basketball, Hockey, and others using real-time odds and spreads. The site challenges players to amass one million points by the end of Sunday night, enshrining them in the PicksPal Millionaire Club and ensuring massive bragging rights for those who are successful. Since PicksPal’s launch in mid-September, only one player had topped the million-point threshold.

The previous week’s winner, “Mohawk”, reached the million-point-mark on eight picks with relatively safe odds, however, Tweeter rode four long shot picks with riskier odds to reach his unparalleled mark of 3,417,000 points. Here is how he did it:

Date – 11/2;
Game – Nashville vs San Jose;
Event – Will there be a short-handed goal;
Pick/Odds – Yes/11:1;
Points – 1,000;
Won – 11,000;
Total – 12,000;

Date – 11/4;
Game – San Jose vs Anaheim;
Event – Will the game be scoreless at the end of the 1st period;
Pick/Odds – Yes/7:1;
Points – 12,000;
Won – 84,000;
Total – 96,000;

Date – 11/6;
Game – Pittsburgh vs Green Bay;
Event – Will there be a defensive TD;
Pick/Odds – Yes/6:1;
Points – 96,000;
Won – 576,000;
Total – 672,000;

Date – 11/6;
Game – Minnesota vs Anaheim;
Event – Will the game be tied at the end of the 3rd period;
Pick/Odds – Yes/7.5:1;
Points – 366,000;
Won – 2,745,000;
Total – 3,417,000;

In the midst of all the commotion over Tweeter’s three million points, another player, “MommaJoeMamma” also reached the million-mark with 1,000,001 points. After having no players even come close to half a million points in its first six weeks, PicksPal has now seen three players reach the mark in the last two weeks.

Said The Picking Order, “Who knows what Mohawk might have done had he not chosen to sit out last Sunday? Tweeter, on the other hand, went all in on Sunday and hit it big. Congrats to all on a huge day and week. This record will stand longer than a week.”

About PicksPal.com

Based in Mountain View, California, and created by Internet sports pioneer, Tom Jessiman, PicksPal.com (www.pickspal.com) launched in September 2005. PicksPal received its initial funding from Canaan Partners and counts Canaan general partner Maha Ibrahim and online marketing expert and TicketsNow (www.ticketsnow.com) Chief Marketing Officer Kenneth Dotson as Board Members. PicksPal members compete in the weekly game, playing and earning points by picking real events based on real odds. PicksPal members have the opportunity to risk their points on any of their favorite sports, including pro and college football, pro and college basketball, baseball, golf, boxing, motor sports, horse racing and others. At the end of the week, the member accumulating the most points wins.

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