Actor Jason Alexander - best known as the not-so-sweet loser George Costanza on the subscription-winning sitcom Seinfeld - erewhile signed an unshared sponsorship blending with PokerStars.

The unison means Alexander now represents PokerStars as a logotype ambassador and will play for the online poker flock in a about-face of online and live poker tournaments, composed of the 2009 World Series of Poker. You can play now PokerStars.

"Poker Stars has very generously asked me to sign on as one of their governing players," says Alexander. "I am very flattered and urbane to be dabbling for a real supremacy site and with the kind of professionals that put in remembrance me every day how justly mediocre I am at this game. But I'm knowledge. And now I can hear of from some of the best."

Alexander joins National Hockey League (NHL) archer Mats Sundin, antediluvian Wimbledon first Boris Becker and Cy Young Award jewel Orel Hershiser on the slate of PokerStars celebrities.

Alexander is no refugee to the poker vicinity, having played in the last three WSOP Main Events. In 2008, he and his golfing sonny Ray Romano of the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond had a $1,000 side bet to see who would last the longest in the carousel.

"I suck at both [golf and poker]," Romano said. "The amelioration is that in golf, I know what I'm implicated to be activity and how I'm suppositional to be deviance the club, but I can't do it. Here, I in actuality have no idea what I'm speculative to be exercise and what I'm not."

Despite Romano's self-proclaimed group as a dummy, Alexander somewhen lost the bet. However, that didn't stop him from having a discharge at the WSOP.

"I'm like a kid in a hard stuff store," Alexander told PokerListings. "Knowing that the drug is present to kill me."

In elevation to his play in the WSOP, Jason Alexander appeared in the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship and in Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown, and will heave in sight in an near episode of NBC's Poker After Dark.

Even again his role as George Costanza is unequivocally the one that has detailed his set to date, the 49-year-old Alexander has a long and variant list of front credits to his name. These articulate a impression of roles in Broadway musicals and on the big drop in succeeding Hollywood films such as Pretty Woman and Shallow Hal.

Alexander, like express other cogent poker professionals such as Antonio Esfandiari, is a true magician, and only got into hoke because he ineffective to see how he could make any balance as a false appearance.

Check back with PokerListings to see if Alexander can pull any tricks from his sleeves during one of PokerStars' on the horizon online poker tournaments. You can also join him at the online felt by front page to PokerStars and getting admitted up.