Thursday, November 04 2010
Richmond, VA - Macanudo®, America's number-one-selling brand of premium cigars announces the winners of the second annual Macanudo Millionaire contest. Dan Newman, of Liberty Township, Ohio is the national essay contest winner. He will also be joined in Las Vegas by these lucky winners: Kerry Rold, Redlands, CA; Terry Greenlee, Ripon, CA; Thomas Knuesel, Duluth, MN, and Dana Purdy, New Meadows, ID.
Newman and three guests, along with Rold, Greenlee, Knuesel and Purdy, each with a guest, will jet to Las Vegas for an all expense paid, three-day, two-night trip to the Palms Hotel and Casino where they will be accompanied by three Playboy Playmates for a VIP evening at the legendary Playboy Club.
While in Sin City, on Saturday November 13, Newman and his guests, along with the Macanudo Millionaire retail grand prize winner and his guest, will each be dealt a
hand of poker. If either the contest winner or their guests receive a straight flush, they will win the $2,000,000 prize, courtesy of Macanudo. This year's Macanudo Millionaire promotion ups the stakes from last year's promotion – doubling the prize money from $1,000,000 to a cool $2,000,000.
Updates about the Macanudo Millionaire contest will be posted to the contest's dedicated Facebook (http://bit.ly/cn8Wfs) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/macanudocigars) accounts throughout the weekend of November 13. Video footage and photos chronicling the weekend and the VIP evening at the Playboy Club will be featured on the Macanudo Millionaire website (www.macanudomillionaire.com) following the weekend of November 13.
Debo Mukherjee, vice president of marketing for General Cigar, parent company of Macanudo, comments, "We were incredibly excited by the buzz generated by this year's Macanudo Millionaire promotion. Together with the team at Playboy, we are gearing up for another, even more exciting weekend in Vegas and look forward to sharing the results with the media and consumers who have actively followed the contest since its kick off in September. Maybe this year, we'll celebrate crowning a Macanudo Multi-Millionaire."
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