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POKERSTARS CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE amfAR CHARITY TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCED

PokerStars and amfAR Join Forces to Support AIDS Awareness During the PCA
ISLE OF MAN, UK, Nov 30, 2009 – PokerStars, the world’s largest poker site, has teamed up
with amfAR, to help combat the Global Aids epidemic, through a high profile charity poker
tournament which will include many top celebs, sports stars and leading poker pro’s.
The celebrities and top poker pros are expected to take part in the $5,250 event which will take
place at the luxurious Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island on January 8, 2010. Half the
entire prize pool will go to amfAR to support their innovative research and help raise HIV/AIDS
awareness.
Among those due to play in the charity event are major PokerStars-sponsored sports stars such as
NHL Olympic gold medalist Mats Sundin, tennis legend Boris Becker and French rugby star
Sebastien Chabal as well as members of Team PokerStars Pro; PokerStars’ roster of talented
sponsored poker professionals.
“PokerStars is bringing a truly innovative and fulfilling cause to the PCA this year through their
partnership with amfAR,” said Team PokerStars Pro member, Daniel Negreanu, “As a member of
Team PokerStars Pro, I feel very lucky to be able to participate in, and contribute to, such a
worthwhile cause in the name of AIDS research.”
“amfAR is grateful to PokerStars for providing this opportunity to bring AIDS awareness to a new
audience and to raise critical funds for AIDS research,” said Gregory Boroff, amfAR’s vice president
and director of development.
Both PokerStars.net and PokerStars.com will be running special online qualifying satellites before
the event to give players from all over the world a chance to be involved; qualifiers can win a trip to
the Bahamas and play alongside the celebs, sports stars and poker pro’s in the amfAR event.
PokerStars.net will be hosting regular freerolls from now until December 6 while PokerStars.com
will be running $5 satellites until December 13.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure runs from Jan. 4-14, 2010 at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in
Paradise Island, Bahamas. In addition to the amfAR charity poker event, the 2010 PCA will host 50
tournaments over ten days in various games and formats, with millions of dollars in prize money.
PokerStars will also encourage all participants to donate in some way to amfAR during the PCA.
For more information on the PCA and information on the freerolls to be hosted on PokerStars,
please visit http://www.caribbeanpokeradventure.com/.

PCA Ladies Event

PokerStars is pleased to announce the start of online qualifying tournaments for the PCA
Ladies Weekend, the highlight of the Ladies poker circuit which takes place at the
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas in
January 2010.
The PCA Ladies Weekend is a chance for female poker players everywhere to be part of one
of the greatest poker festivals on earth – the PCA – played in one of the most beautiful
Caribbean locations, Paradise Island. The Ladies Weekend combines sunshine beaches with
relaxation, pampering and poker for female poker players who want to improve their
game, enjoy some spa treatment.
Satellites are now running on PokerStars for as little as $2.20, with packages worth $3,500
up for grabs. What does that include? Three nights’ accommodation at Atlantis, $900
towards travel expenses and a $250 spa voucher, either to unwind if things don’t go quite
as well as you’d hoped at the tables, or to celebrate your big win.
You’ll also receive entry to a Ladies Poker Boot camp worth $250, where you’ll get to learn
how to play like our top female Team PokerStars Pros like Vanessa Rousso, Victoria Coren
and Katja Thater. And of course, you’ll also receive your buy-in to the PokerStars No Limit
Hold’em $1,000 which also marks the Grand Finale of the Pokerstars sponsored High Heels
Poker Tour Grand Final. This is on Saturday, January 9, 2010, one of the 50 events
scheduled for the PCA.
PokerStars is the proud sponsor of the High Heels Poker Tour, one of the world’s premier
ladies poker organizations. The HHPT aims to give women of all ages the opportunity to
expand their skills at the poker table and provide a venue for nurturing the next top female
poker player.
All female players are welcome at the PCA Ladies Weekend, whether you are a member of
the High Heels Poker Tour, from another ladies poker organization, or just playing for fun.
Online qualifiers are now being held daily on PokerStars.com. You can find satellites in the
tournament lobby under “Events” and “PCA”, or by typing “PCA Ladies Weekend” into the
event filter. You can also buy-in directly to the grand final for $1,250 + $100, or turn up on
the day to do the same.
It’s open to all women, from experience veterans to those picking up cards for the first time.
And don’t worry if you don’t have a PokerStars account, you can download the software for
free at PokerStars.com, where you’ll find tutorials and all you need to get started.

ASIA PACIFIC POKER TOUR HEADS FOR SYDNEY FOR SPECTACULAR SEASON 3 GRAND FINAL

The PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour is set to end its third season in spectacular fashion
this year with the AUD$6,300 buy-in APPT Grand Final running from December 1-6 at the Star
City Casino in beautiful Sydney, Australia.
A wealth of different tournaments are taking place at the Grand Final which looks set to be one
of the most exciting poker “festivals” ever held in the Asia Pacific region. Among the stars taking
part are Team PokerStars PROs and former world champions Peter Eastgate and Joe Hachem
as well as fellow team members Lee Nelson, Emad Tahtouh, Tony Hachem, Eric Assadourian
and APPT Season 1 Grand Final winner Grant Levy. This season’s APPT champions – Simon
Watt, Dermot Blain and Dong-bin Han – have also won a seat into the Grand Final as part of
their prize.
Jeffrey Haas, President of the PokerStars.net APPT, said: “This season’s APPT has been a
great success with over a thousand players competing in the three events already held in
Macau, Auckland and Cebu in the Philippines. This has been made possible by massive
enthusiasm for the tour right across the region. This season’s Grand Final in Sydney is set to
cement the tour’s reputation for providing incredible events in great locations.”
The schedule kicks off next Sunday with the AUD $200 Pink Diamond Ladies No Limit Hold’em
tournament. A host of other events are taking place every day in the run-up to the APPT Grand
Final, including a deep stack tournament, PLO event and mega satellites to the Main Event.
Once the Main Event is under way, side events include the: AUD $15,300 High Roller, a bigger
buy-in (AUD $550) Ladies Tournament, an AUD $1,100 team event, an AUD $3,200 Heads-Up
event and the AUD $340 Camp Quality Charity Event in aid of the Australian Children and
Families Cancer Charity.
On December 7, the annual APPT Tournament of Champions event will take place. This
invitation-only Tournament of Champions features winners from the APPT as well as some of
the biggest names in poker, all competing to help their favorite charities. In its first year, the
event was won by former world champion and Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem from
Australia and last season by American Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso.
Online free-to-enter satellite tournaments at PokerStars.net are still running, and winners can
make their way to the APPT Grand Final for free – receiving a prize package worth USD $9,500
which includes tournament buy-in and accommodation at the luxurious Star City Hotel in
Sydney.
Live satellites are running almost every day at Star City Casino in Sydney, Australia. Visit the
Big Game Poker website at http://www.biggamepoker.com.au for full details.
The huge success of the recent APPT event in the Philippines, which was held on the luxury
resort island of Cebu and broke records for an event in the country, will help stimulate even
more interest in this season’s APPT Grand Final.
Last year’s APPT Grand Final Main Event attracted a total of 477 players with 34-year-old local
Martin Rowe taking home over USD $648,046 for clinching the title. The first ever APPT Grand
Final was won by Grant Levy, who snagged USD $850,000 for his achievement and is now a
member of Team PokerStars PRO Australia.
Please see full schedule information below and see http://www.appt.com/tournaments/sydney/
for further information and updates.

GALWAY MAN JOINS TEAM POKERSTARS PRO UK AND IRELAND

Jude Ainsworth joins the impressive roster of Team PokerStars PROs
Leading Irish poker player Jude Ainsworth has been signed as the latest member of Team PokerStars PRO.
A relative newcomer to the professional poker circuit, Jude, who plays on PokerStars as ‘j.thaddeus’, has
proved his ability to match the best at poker tables over the last year. He will strengthen the expanding Team
PokerStars PRO UK and Ireland team.
Jude Ainsworth from Galway, Ireland, achieved his breakthrough live result when he won the Irish Poker
Championship in 2008, collecting €145,000. He continued his success this year when he beat 501 other
players at the $10,000 Spring Championship of Online Poker Main Event on PokerStars.com and collected
$963,338.
Jude will be playing in the new UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT), which will see him playing on his home turf in
Galway from December 11-14, 2009. The events are aimed at both amateurs and professionals and will
provide players with a first-class poker experience at an affordable local level.
Jude said: “I’m really looking forward to competing in the UKIPT and being part of such an exciting tour.
Undoubtedly the event I’m most looking forward to is the return to my hometown Galway on the 11th
December.”
Other top names from around the UK and Ireland such as former England footballer Teddy Sheringham and
Team PokerStars PRO Vicky Coren will also be competing at the UKIPT events.
After the launch event in Galway, the PokerStars UKIPT will visit Manchester, Nottingham, Killarney, Brighton,
Scotland (city TBC) and Dublin with the Grand Final taking place as part of the PokerStars.com EPT London
event next October.
Daily satellites are running now on www.pokerstars.com for as little as $0.25 or 250FP.
Full details of the PokerStars UKIPT schedule can be found below. For more information and updates please
see http://www.ukipt.com

PokerStars weekly roundup: 16 November 2009

Cada crowned champion of the world.
Joe Cada, a 21-year-old from Michigan, became the youngest ever World Champion of Poker last week when he
won the final table of the main event in the Penn and Teller Theatre at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. Ahead of 6,494
players who started the event back in July, Cada triumphed in the long awaited final table, beating poker legend
Phil Ivey, fellow PokerStars players Kevin Schaffel and Eric Buchman and the chip leader for most of the final
Darvin Moon, having started fifth in chips and at one point having just 1% of the chips in play. The heads-up duel
was one of huge swings and the odd pair of nines, all of which can be read about on the PokerStars Blog
(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/wsop/2009/wsop-crowns-joe-cada-youngest-main-event-061007.html). Cada’s
reward for his astonishing comeback – the coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelet and the small matter of
$8,546,435.
The Sunday Million becomes the Sunday $2.5 million
PokerStars (http://www.pokerstars.com) was setting new records last weekend when the PokerStars Sunday
Million became a celebration of the $250 million in prize money already earned by players since the flagship online
event began. To mark the occasion PokerStars ensured there was a $2.5million prize pool, that’s an extra million
to the usual prize pool, earning the eventual winner more than $365,000. It also coincided with a new record for
players online on PokerStars at the same time when 317,000 were recorded playing at once.
The thriller in… Cebu
The latest leg of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (http://www.appt.com) came to a conclusion over the weekend at the
Shangri-La Mactan Resort and Spa in Cebu, Philippines where Dong-bin Han from Korea became just the second
Asian-based player to win a leg of the tour in what was only his first major tournament
(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/appt/2009/appt-cebu-korean-victory-in-asian-paradi-061243.html). The 37-year-old
outlasted a 319-strong field made up of the region’s best players winning the first prize of PHP 7,410,000
(US$160,000). The prize pool of PHP 29,086,420 (US$622,036) made this the richest event of its kind on
Philippine soil. The tour now heads south to Australia (http://www.appt.com/tournaments/sydney/) for the final
event of the third season, the grand final at Star City in Sydney. It all starts on December 1st.

Sunshine, beaches and the EPT Vilamoura
The next leg of the European Poker Tour (http://www.ept.com) is underway in the Algarve region of Vilamoura
(http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/vilamoura/index.html) in Portugal. It’s yet another new
destination for the tour which this year will feature 13 stops, including first time visits to Kyiv
(http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/kyiv/) and the Austrian Alps
(http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/snowfest/), as well as Portugal. Several hundred players have
descended on Casino Vilamoura to capture the first EPT crown from these parts and the name of that winner will
be known after the final table on Sunday. The tour then takes a week to head back across Europe to the Czech
capital Prague (http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/prague/ ). In the meantime coverage from the
front lines of EPT Vilamoura can be found on the PokerStars Blog (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com) .
Tournaments in all corners of the world
In true PokerStars fashion, if one tournament is finishing somewhere two more are starting somewhere else
around the world. As the EPT (http://www.ept.com) touches down in Portugal the same is happening in Costa Rica
where the next leg of the Latin American Poker Tour’s (http://www.lapt.com) third season starts this week in Playa
Conchal (http://www.lapt.com/tournaments/playaconchal/). It’s the second time the tour has visited these parts, the
last time being in season one when Valdemar Kwaysser, a PokerStars qualifier from Hungary, turned $200 into
$280,000. This year the Paradisius Playa Conchal Resort will be home to the tour, starting on Thursday. Follow all
the action on the PokerStars Blog (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com).
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JOE CADA ABOUT TO MAKE POKER HISTORY

The 21-Year Old Come Back Kid Aims at $8.5 Million and the title of Youngest WSOP Champ
WHAT: Joe Cada sits as chip leader and is about to make history at the 2009 World Series of
Poker as the youngest winner in the history of the Series earning $8.5 million
WHERE: 2009 World Series of Poker- Main Event Final Table at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino
in Las Vegas, NV
WHEN: Final table play begins on Monday Nov 9 at 10:00 PM PST
The World Series of Poker Main Event began with 6,494 entrants two months ago. Now only two
players remain. The 2009 final table began on Saturday afternoon with the final nine players and
ended around 6 a.m. PST Sunday with Darvin Moon and chip leader, Joe Cada, sitting at the final
two seats.
At 21, Joe Cada is about to make poker history if he can outlast Darvin Moon, a logger from
western Maryland. Cada will become the youngest Main Event winner in the history of the World
Series of Poker. Team PokerStars PRO Peter Eastgate, who won last year at 22, currently holds
the record. Cada and Moon go head-to-head Monday night with play beginning at 10:00 PM PST.
The two will battle for the top prize of $8.5 million at the World Series of Poker, and for Cada, a
part of history as the youngest WSOP winner.
The 21-year-old Michigan native has been playing poker for six years. Cada couldn’t play in U.S.
casinos until he turned of age last November. But he played in Canada at 19, and he could also
play in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas as well as the PokerStars Latin
American Poker Tour in Costa Rica.
Cada began playing poker online at PokerStars.net. By the time he began college, he was playing
online poker so well that he withdrew from college to become a fulltime poker player.
“It would be pretty amazing if I did beat Peter Eastgate’s record,” Cada said after play ended on
Sunday. “This is surreal; I feel very fortunate right now. I might as well go buy a lottery ticket while
I’m at it!”
Cada is being labelled the ‘come back kid’ based on his historic comeback after being shortstacked
with eight players left. Cada currently holds a 9 to 4 chip lead over Moon and is now on
the verge of making history with his unexpected comeback. Cada sits with 135,950,000 chips,
while Moon holds 58,850,000
The 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table will resume on Monday at 10pm PST at the Rio All-
Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

EXCITING NEW EVENT ANNOUNCED IN THE POKERSTARS.COM FULL EPT SEASON 6 SCHEDULE

John Duthie, Chief Executive of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT), today announced
the second half of the Season 6 schedule. The remaining six events span from Scandinavia to the
French Riviera. The schedule includes the much-celebrated EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in April,
as well as the exhilarating new event in the Austrian Alps: the first ‘EPT Snowfest’ in Saalbach-
Hinterglemm.
The addition of EPT Snowfest, running March 21-26, 2010 is likely to prove a massive hit with
players. They can enjoy plenty of invigorating ski and snowboard action when they’re not competing
at the poker tables. Saalbach-Hinterglemm is one of Austria’s premier ski areas and offers some of
the finest on and off-piste skiing in the country. As part of their prize, PokerStars qualifiers will be
staying at the luxurious Alpine Palace hotel during the six-day € 3,750 event. The prize package also
includes a bus transfer to and from Salzburg Airport and a six day ski package: lift pass, skis, boots
and poles.
The European Poker Tour, sponsored by PokerStars.com, is now the world’s largest poker tour in
terms of both players and prize pools. The tournaments take place in some of Europe’s most exciting
destinations. “There has been huge enthusiasm for the new EPT schedule and also for the bigger
’Festivals of Poker’ like the one we held in London, and will be holding at the PCA, Sanremo and
Monte Carlo events,” said John Duthie
“The spectacular success of the EPT London Poker Festival a few weeks ago shows that players
really relish the chance to play more side events, with a variety of games and buy-ins. We had huge
names entering – and winning – these events which created massive interest throughout the week.
With 730 players, the Main Event broke the record for the biggest poker tournament ever held in the
UK!” said Duthie
Last season’s EPT proved an outstanding success. With 11 events on the schedule, EPT Season 5
generated an overall prize pool of almost €55 million (approx $77 million USD) with 7,901 players
from 97 countries participating. EPT Season 6 has 13 events, and seems certain to smash records
once again.
Online satellites for the new EPT event in Vilamoura, Portugal and the PCA in The Bahamas are running
now on PokerStars.com with buy-ins from as little as $2.22. Players who qualify on PokerStars don’t just
win their seat: they also win luxury hotel accommodation (or cash equivalent) and spending money as
part of their prize package.

NEW POKERSTARS UK AND IRELAND POKER TOUR TO SUIT ALL POCKETS

PokerStars.com, the world’s largest poker site has announced the launch of the PokerStars.com UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). The first UKIPT event will be held in Galway, Ireland from December 11-14, 2009, in the Radisson Hotel. The event will be part of the popular Irish Poker Championships. The first UK-based UKIPT event will be held in  Manchester from February 11–14, 2010 at the Grosvenor G-Casino. The event will attract top names from around the UK and Ireland such as former England footballer Teddy Sheringham and Team PokerStars PRO Vicky Coren as well as other celebs and top professional poker players to be announced at a later date. “This is an incredibly exciting addition to the range of PokerStars live events. Here is our own local British and Irish tour, nicely accessible for those who can’t travel abroad very often or
who save their foreign travel for larger international events,” said Vicky Coren. The UKIPT is a fresh and exciting poker tour for amateur and professional players in the UK and Ireland. The events are being held in regional locations and will provide players with a first-class poker experience at an affordable local level. The events will have a range of buyin levels; from £500+£50 to £1,000+£100 for UK-based tournaments and €1,000+€100 and €2,000 for events in Ireland.

“The buy-ins are great: big enough to make chunky prize pools, not so big that they’re a huge drain on resources. It’s about time there was a serious respected tournament with a £500 buy-in, like the new ones in Manchester, Coventry and Nottingham,” added Vicky. In addition to a UKIPT title and prize money, players will also win a buy-in to the PokerStars.com EPT London event next October, which will also be the UKIPT
Championship Event. This will give regular season UKIPT finalists the chance to experience the exciting atmosphere playing in one of the biggest live poker tournaments outside of Vegas, alongside some of the biggest names in the world of poker. The UKIPT will have its own Points Leader Board that will be regularly updated. Players will be able to track their progress against other local players and professionals; including their
favourite Team PokerStars PROs. At the end of the season the top players from the UKIPT leader board will be rewarded with great prizes, including: a £10,000 freeroll for the top 100 players over the season; and the top three players will receive various levels of PokerStars.com sponsorship to events during the UKIPT’s second season.

Team PokerStars PROs attending the events will lead question and answer sessions ahead of play at selected UKIPT events giving players the opportunity to up their game with top tips from the PROs.

After the launch event in Galway, the PokerStars UKIPT will visit Manchester, Nottingham, Killarney, Brighton, Scotland (city TBC) and Dublin with the Grand Final taking place as part of the PokerStars.com EPT London event next October. Daily satellites are running now on  www.pokerstars.com for as little as $0.25 or 250FP. Full details of the PokerStars UKIPT schedule can be found below. For more information and
updates please see http://www.ukipt.com

POKERSTARS.COM BOUNTY STARS OF POKER

Amateur players try to take down Team PokerStars PROs and top sportsmen to claim a £5,000 bounty

Airing on Monday nights on Sky Sports from November 2nd is the PokerStars.com Bounty Stars of  Poker. Filmed by Emblaze Productions Ltd, the show takes amateur online qualifiers from PokerStars.com into a live TV environment where they will have to beat other members of the public to progress to the next stage of the show. If successful, the online qualifier will face either a Team PokerStars PRO or a sporting celebrity for a £5000 cash prize, but players won’t know who they will face until they take their seat at the table. The sportsmen who will be standing between the amateur players and a cash windfall are ex-England test cricketer and former ‘King of the Jungle’ Phil Tufnell, England rugby star and talented poker player Mike Tindall, and Welsh football legend Gary Speed.

The Team PokerStars PROs will also be bringing their unique personalities to the table. Peter Eastgate, 2008 World Champion, Victoria Coren, the first woman to win a European Poker Tour event, and Marcel Luske, one of Europe’s most feared and respected players, will all play against the amateur players. With their reputations at stake they won’t want to lose the heads-up best of 3 ‘bounty’ play offs. Victoria Coren comments: “This is an excellent opportunity for previously unknown poker players to make a name for themselves and play against some of the best in the business. The PokerStars Bounty Stars of Poker will expose these guys to the unique pressures of playing in a live environment with thousands watching on. And while I hope they enjoy the experience I’ve got no intention of taking it easy on them.”

The TV series will appear exclusively on Sky Sports in November/December. The first episode airs on Sky Sports 2 @ 22:00 on Monday, 2nd November 2009.

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