Last Call Poker Holds Final Graveyard Game

When Lucky Lionel Brown passed away, he left specific instructions, as well as a ton of cash, to create a poker website in order to tell his story, and to get poker players to hold “poker wakes” in his honor in cemeteries across the country. That is the general idea behind the fictitious story of Last Call Poker, the latest in the growing genre of alternate reality games—games where players compete and participate both online and in real world events. This entity was created in order to create marketing buzz for Activision’s latest big game, Gun.The Hollywood Forever cemetery was the venue for the last of the real world events, called Graveyard Games, where about 60 people raced around the resting places of the dead to play a game called “Tombstone Holdem.” While many of the folk who came to the cemetery, or to a gravesite where one of the six previous events were held, complained about what they saw as a lack of respect for the dearly departed, game organizers and the operators of the cemeteries themselves, who granted permission for the Graveyard Games, felt that inviting the living to spend time in cemeteries is a great way to honor the dead.