PokerNews.com to Provide Exclusive Live Updates and Chip Counts for World Series of Poker Europe

(EMAILWIRE.COM, August 22, 2007 ) Nicosia, Cyprus -- PokerNews.com (http://www.pokernews.com/wsop-europe/) in conjunction with Bluff Media, LLC, will be providing exclusive live updates and chip counts for the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), to be held from September 6-16 in London. Following on from their coverage of the 2007 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, PokerNews.com will once again be providing real-time online tournament reporting and hand-for-hand coverage of each final table, with all updates to be translated into 20 languages.Following on from their extensive coverage of the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, PokerNews.com (http://www.pokernews.com/wsop-europe/) in conjunction with Bluff Media, LLC, will once again be the exclusive live update and chip count provider for the next WSOP-branded event – the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) – to take place from September 6-16 in London.PokerNews.com will be providing updates for all three WSOPE events, starting with the £2,500 HORSE from September 6-8, the £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha from September 8-9, and finally the £10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'Em Championship which will take place from September 10-16. Readers will be able to follow the action online in real-time, with tournament updates from the floor, chip counts, plus photos and videos of the top poker professionals and event winners. Once again, PokerNews.com will be providing hand-for-hand coverage of each final table, both with live updates and also in our feature hand simulator, which provides an animated replay of each hand.All coverage from the World Series of Poker Europe will be translated live into approximately twenty languages across the PokerNews network of websites. In addition to this, PokerNews.com will be sending a team of reporters from over five countries in order to provide localized video content for the first time.PokerNews.com is one of the leaders in tournament reporting and was recently announced as the official online media partner of the APPT, to go alongside their partnership with the Aussie Millions. PokerNews.com is the exclusive live update and chip count provider for all World Series of Poker branded events through to May 2008.About PokerNews LtdPokerNews Ltd incorporates PokerNews.com (http://www.pokernews.com/) which is considered to be the independent online poker authority, having been picked by Forbes as "Best of Web" for the Poker category. PokerNews features daily news, reviews of the major poker rooms, special bonuses and freerolls, and is available in over 20 different languages. PokerNews has recently branched out into tournament reporting and was named as the exclusive live update and chip count provider for the 2007 World Series of Poker, as well as being the official media partner of the Aussie Millions. PokerNews are also hosting their first live poker tournament – the PokerNews Cup (http://www.pokernewscup.com) – which will take place at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia from October 21-29, 2007.###This press release was issued through GroupWeb EmailWire.Com. For more information on press release distribution, go to http://www.emailwire.com.

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