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Pokerstars Reload Bonus

PokerStars have announced a reload bonus just in time for the 9th annual World
Championship of Online Poker (September 5 – September 27). Players that make a deposit
into their PokerStars account using the bonus code “WCOOP” any time before 23:59 EST
on September 11 are eligible for a one-time bonus of 20% of their deposit, to a maximum of
$100 (or €75 / £65).
Players that choose to take advantage of the WCOOP Reload Bonus will have twenty days
from the time of their qualifying deposit to release as much of the bonus cash as they can.
Bonus cash is released based on the total VIP Player Points (VPPs) accumulated by the
player for playing on PokerStars after making the deposit. The bonus cash will be released
to the player’s account in increments of $10 for every 200 VPPs (€10 for 260 VPPs / £10 for
320 VPPs) the player accumulates. Any bonus cash that has not been released twenty days
after the deposit will automatically expire.
The WCOOP bonus code cannot be combined with any other bonus code and can only be
used one time for one deposit during the qualifying period. Players seeking to receive the
maximum bonus amount should be sure to make a single deposit of at least $500 (€375 /
£325) to their PokerStars account using the WCOOP bonus code.

For further information,
please see: http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/bonus/wcoop/

PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura Final Table Update

A total of 384 players entered the EPT Vilamoura Main Event creating a 1.8 million Euros prize pool
and making it the biggest tournament ever held in Portugal. First prize is 467,835 Euros.
British players account for the top three at the PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura final table. The chip
leader is 20-year-old PokerStars player Toby Lewis from Southampton with 3,322,000. Sam Trickett
24, from Nottingham is slightly behind with 3,318,000. The third Brit is Friend of PokerStars and
England football legend Teddy Sheringham who has 1, 783, and 00. The short stack with 259,000 is
veteran Dutch pro Rob Hollink the very first EPT Grand Final Champion back in 2005, and now in with
a chance of becoming the first ever EPT double champion. See below for full final table player
profiles.
Sheringham is an England soccer legend who scored over 350 goals in a 23-year career that included
spells at Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United. His
achievements in the game include winning the Premier League, FA Cup and the Champions League.
He also played for England 51 times, scored 11 goals and was part two World Cup squads. Since
turning to poker in recent years, he has some impressive results including his biggest cash – 14th
place in last year’s WSOP-E Main Event for £40,481. That result was followed a few weeks later with
49th place at EPT London for £ 11,600 and he came 103rd at the EPT Grand Final last season for
€20,000. Teddy started Day 4 having already played six holes of golf in the EPT Vilamoura Fairways &
Felts Challenge alongside Daniel Negreanu and Marcin Horecki.
Chip counts
1. Toby Lewis UK 3,322,000 – PokerStars player
2. Sam Trickett UK 3,318,000
3. Teddy Sheringham UK 1,783,000 – Friend of PokerStars
4. Jason Lee USA 1,167,000 – PokerStars qualifier
5. Sergio Coutinho Portugal 872,000
6. Martin Jacobson Sweden 441,000 – PokerStars qualifier
7. Frederick Jensen Denmark 375,000
8. Rob Hollink Netherlands 259,000
PokerStars.tv
PokerStars Qualifier Martin Jacobson catches us up on how he is faring coming into Day 5.

http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-6688-ept-vilamoura-2010-day-4-recap.html

Luca Pagano, Teddy Sheringham, Fatima Moreira de Melo and David Williams share the stories of
their worst wrong lay down

http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-6687-ept-vilamoura-2010-wrong-laydown.

html?channel_id=18
PokerStars Team Sports Star Fatima Moreira de Melo answers Twitter and Facebook questions

http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-6686-ept-vilamoura-2010-ask-fatima.html?channel_id=18

PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura Final Table Player Profiles
Seat 1: Teddy Sheringham, 44, UK, Friend of PokerStars – 1,783,000 Teddy Sheringham is an
England soccer legend who scored over 350 goals in a 23-year career that included spells at
Manchester United, Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur. His achievements in the game
include winning the Premier League, FA Cup and the Champions League. He also played for England
51 times, scored 11 goals and was part two World Cup squads. Since turning to poker in recent
years, he has some impressive results including his biggest cash – 14th place in last year’s WSOP-E
Main Event for £40,481. That result was followed a few weeks later with 49th place at EPT London
for £ 11,600 and he came 103rd at the EPT Grand Final last season for €20,000. Teddy started Day 4
having already played six holes of golf in the EPT Vilamoura Fairways & Felts Challenge alongside
Daniel Negreanu and Marcin Horecki.
Seat 2: Toby Lewis, 20, UK, PokerStars player – 3,322,000 PokerStars player Toby Lewis, 20, was
already thriving when he won a big pot on Day 4 against Swedish PokerStars qualifier (and former
chip leader) Martin Jacobson. Lewis, who hails from Southampton but now lives in London, has
played several EPTs and cashed in Prague and the Grand Final last season. He also came 7th at the
PokerStars IPT event in Venice for €25,000 and 12th at the recent PokerStars Russian Poker Series
event in Riga for €5,250.
Seat 3: Martin Jacobson, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier – 441,000 PokerStars qualifier Martin
Jacobson had a rough Day 4, losing several flips which massively dented his stack, but the talented
pro has still managed to make the final table. He already has a string of great results to his name
including third place at EPT Budapest for €197,904, runner-up at WPT Venice last year for €238,840
and a fourth place finish in the World Series $1,500 side event this summer for $183,345. His live
tournament winnings are already close to $1 million.
Seat 4: Jason “JaspudUF” Lee, 25, Florida, USA PokerStars qualifier – 1,167,000 Jason doesn’t like
long-haul flights much, so he has only played one EPT before – Copenhagen in Season 5 (and he
didn’t cash). He has scored a couple of minor cashes in the live arena with a $2,025 finish in a $1k
event at this year’s WSOP and another $2,099 in another Vegas tournament in July of this year but
he’s mainly an online pro, playing as “JaspudUF”. He’s cashed for $428,025 in PokerStars
tournaments..and has made several other five-figure scores. His biggest online win was $42,000.
According to Lee’s twitter account, he “loves working out, kickboxing and making people laugh”.
He’s being railed in Vilamoura by his great friends Norwegian pro Annette Obrestad and American
Scott Montgomery.
Seat 5: Sergio Coutinho, 30, Oporto, Portugal – 872,000 Coutinho has played two EPTs so far – San
Remo and Vilamoura last season – but this is his first EPT cash. He was training in physical education
until 2005 and turned pro as a poker player around three years ago. This is his best live result but he
has made the final of several major online tournaments. He said: “I’ve been doing well online so I
thought eventually I had to make a final table in a live event as well.” He has come second and third
in major online events as well as coming second in the PokerStars Sunday Second Chance
tournament. Last December, he came 11th here in Vilamoura in the €1,000 PokerStars Solverde
Poker Season main event.
Seat 6: Sam Trickett, 24, Nottingham, UK – 3,318,000 British pro Sam Trickett soared into the lead at
EPT Vilamoura when he won a massive pot to knock out Italian Marco Leonzio. That made him the
first player to over the 2,000,000 chip mark. Trickett has been playing poker, both live and online, for
around six years. This is his third EPT, but first cash (he has played the last two EPT London events).
His best live result to date was runner-up to Jason DeWitt in the WSOP $5,000 NLHE event this
summer for over $500k but he has had several other big scores including fourth place in the 2008
WSOP $5k NLHE event and winning the Luton GUKPT in 2008.
Seat 7: Rob Hollink, 48, Groningen, Netherlands – 259,000 chips Father-of-three Hollink was the
first ever EPT Grand Final champion back in Season 1 in 2005. The veteran Dutch pro has played
numerous EPTs since but has never again mirrored that early success. Before reaching Vilamoura this
year, he wrote on his blog that he was likely to bust in the first few days so he would have plenty of
time to play golf. How wrong he was! His last EPT cash was San Remo in Season 4. He also became
the first ever Dutch WSOP bracelet winner when he won the $10,000 Limit Hold’Em World
championships in 2008 for almost $500,000. He is currently the final table short stack but still in with
a chance of being the first ever double EPT champion.
Seat 8: Frederik Jensen, 28, Denmark, PokerStars player – 375,000 Also known as Frederik Brink
Jensen, this young Danish pro has had a stunning 2010 so far. It’s actually the first year he has ever
cashed in a major live tournament but he started spectacularly, finishing second at the Aussie
Millions for over $1 million. In April he had his first ever EPT cash (78th at San Remo for € 13,000)
and then two weeks later came third in the €5,000 NLHE side event at the EPT Grand Final for
€102,900. His best online result was winning the PokerStars Sunday Million in August 2008 for
$205,000. He also came 25th in the SCOOP Main Event this spring.

POKERSTARS.NET EPT SEASON 7 AWARDS ANNOUNCED FEATURING NEW HEADS-UP AWARD

PokerStars.net today announced details for this season’s EPT Awards. The Awards, which
recognise and reward top performances during the world’s richest poker tour, have proved
hugely popular with poker fans across Europe and beyond, and created a real buzz during
Season 6 as players vied to top the rankings and snag the titles.
Season 7’s EPT Awards will feature a revised structure that awards different points to
different tournaments according to their field size. A new award is also being introduced to
reward the best Heads-Up player.
The full list of awards is as follows:
• EPT Player of the Year
• EPT Omaha Player of the Year
• EPT Mixed Games Player of the Year
• EPT Heads-Up Player of the Year (NEW)
• EPT Players’ Choice of the Year
• EPT Best Achievement of the Year
• EPT Best Online Qualifier
• EPT Best Country
EPT players will be able to cast votes on their fellow players for the Players’ Choice and
Best Achievement Awards.
Each individual award winner will win a seat for the opening event of EPT Season 8 and will
also receive a PokerStars trophy (golden for Player of the Year and silver for all other award
winners).
The nation that triumphs in the EPT Best Country award will win a €10,000 freeroll
tournament to be played live at the EPT stop closest to the winning country. The Best
Country will be determined by the highest percentage of cashes, i.e. the number of players
that cash out of the total of EPT players from that country. The winner of last season’s Best
Country, the Czech Republic, will host its live €10,000 freeroll at EPT Prague in December.
For further information please visit http://www.europeanpokertour.com/awards/
Russian pro Max Lykov, current EPT Player of the Year and winner of last season’s
inaugural EPT event in Kyiv, is looking forward to breaking records in Season 7. He said he
hopes to win a second, or even a third title. However, as he puts it, “It’s going to be a little
harder this year because I’m better-known now and people understand how I play a bit more. But I plan to try, and I’m going to play all the EPTs. Changing the rules to award more
points depending on field size is definitely a good idea.”
For his POY Award, Lykov won a seat into EPT Tallinn and said he is having a great time.
“I’ve never been here before and it’s a beautiful city – and at the moment I have chips!”
EPT Season 7 kicked off in the beautiful city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia and is running
August 11-16, 2010. Team PokerStars Pro Katja Thater is due to receive her award for EPT
Best Mixed Games Player of the Year at the party being held at EPT Tallinn on Friday night.
There was an eight-way tie for the award during the regular EPT season so an online final
was held, which Thater won.
Joining Thater in Tallinn are other winners of Season 6 Awards, including: Player of the
Year, Russian pro Max Lykov; Danish pro Allan Baekke, recipient of the EPT Achievement
of the Year Award for winning EPT Snowfest and running deep at EPT Sanremo; EPT
Players’ Choice winner and Berlin champion Kevin MacPhee; and EPT Online Qualifier of
the Year and Friend of PokerStars Pierre Neuville.
For a full EPT Season 7 schedule, please visit: www.ept.com

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POKERSTARS GUARANTEES US $50 MILLION IN PRIZES FOR 2010 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF ONLINE POKER

The PokerStars.com World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) – the richest online poker tournament
series in the world – kicks off its ninth annual instalment on September 5, 2010. The 2010 WCOOP features
US $50 million in guaranteed prizes, the most that PokerStars.com has ever guaranteed for a WCOOP series.
In addition to trying to win life-changing money, players will compete in almost every conceivable poker
discipline to become a World Champion and to win a sought-after WCOOP gold bracelet.
WCOOP is hosted exclusively on PokerStars.com. It runs over 23 days, from September 5-27, 2010, and
begins with a $215 6-Max NL Hold’em tournament. This year’s WCOOP schedule includes 62 events – many
with a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million or more – as well as four brand-new knockout events, giving players
the opportunity to win some cash even if they do not make the money. The series will culminate with a $10,300
High Roller mixed-game event (8-Game this year) and the traditional 2-Day $5,200 NL Hold’em Main Event
($10 Million guaranteed), starting on September 26, 2010.
43,973 unique players from 140 countries around the world competed in the 2009 WCOOP, an increase of
almost 100% in player participation over 2008. Yevgeniy ‘Jovial Gent’ Timoshenko won the Main Event, a win
worth more than $1.7 million. Players ‘Udon Wannit’ ($1.2 million), Daniel ‘djk123′ Kelly ($956,956) and
‘reddeevil’ ($933,712) also had phenomenal success. Kelly, ‘ICuRaRook’ and ‘Maksflaks’ shared the honours
for most cashes in the series by making the money in 11 of the 45 events.
“Players across the world re-arrange their calendars around the WCOOP schedule,” said Team PokerStars
Pro Daniel Negreanu. “It is the biggest and best online poker tournament series – and draws in tens of
thousands of players, with the deepest structures and a wide variety of events. I can’t wait to play this year’s
series!”
Players can qualify for WCOOP events via PokerStars satellites. All players, no matter what the size of their
bankrolls, have a chance to qualify for, and perhaps ultimately win, an event.
For satellite information and updates on this year’s World Championship of Online Poker please check
www.pokerstars.com, www.pokerstarsblog.com and http://www.wcoop.com/ regularly.

POKERSTARS PLAYER JONATHAN DUHAMEL LEADS NOVEMBER NINE AT 2010 WORLD SERIES OF POKER

PokerStars player Jonathan Duhamel is massive chip leader;
Team PokerStars Pros William Thorson and Johnny Lodden enjoy deep runs but falter at final hurdle.
Las Vegas, NV – July 19, 2010 – Thirteen days ago, 7,319 players were gathered at the Rio Hotel in Las
Vegas with dreams of making millions and becoming the 2010 World Series of Poker champion. Now only nine
remain – and two of them are PokerStars players. Canadian Jonathan Duhamel is the massive chip leader and
American Jason Senti the short stack in the battle for poker’s ultimate prize, but all the players will have to wait
124 days until the November final for their next shot at the $8,944,138 first prize.
PokerStars player and former finance student Duhamel, who goes into the final with 65,975,000 in chips, first
hit the limelight when he came tenth at the Season 5 PokerStars European Poker Tour event in Prague, Czech
Republic for €42,800 – his best live result before now. The 22-year-old, from Boucherville near Montreal in
Canada, has already made the money in two events at this year’s World Series – 15th place in a $2,500 NLHE
tourney for $37,276 and 50th in a $1,500 NLHE Six-Max event for $5,724.
He said: “I don’t have much tournament experience. I’m a cash game player but I’m confident in my game. It
was a long day but the longer it was, the better it was for me because I could accumulate more chips.”
Duhamel says he plans to limber up for the November final by competing in some European Poker Tour events
as well as “have fun with my family and friends and relax.”
PokerStars-sponsored Minnesotan Jason Senti, 28, who is the short stack for the final with just 7,725,000
chips, is an internet pro who specialises in cash games. He is also an instructor for an online poker school,
after ditching his job as an electrical engineer some 18 months ago. The $811,823 minimum that he’s
guaranteed as a member of the November Nine dwarfs his best live result to date: 32nd place at the $10,000
World Championship of Heads-Up NLHE event during the 2009 WSOP, which won him $17,987. The other
finalists include Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi (14,450,000) andıJohn Racener (19,050,000).
PokerStars-sponsored Brandon Steven, 36, was the final table bubble and returns home to Wichita, Kansas
with $635,011 for his tenth place finish. Steven and his brother Rodney – who busted out of the Main Event on
Day 1 – run health clubs and car dealerships in Kansas and are dedicated fund-raisers for local and national
health charities.
This year’s mammoth $68,798,600 prize pool is the second largest in WSOP history. PokerStars gave away
over a thousand seats to the 2010 WSOP, with more than 800 players accepting the challenge to compete in
the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Championship Main Event. Out of the 839 PokerStars players who took part,
145 have cashed, notching up at least $14 million so far between them.
The 2010 Main Event showed the strongest ever finish by members of Team PokerStars Pro. Eight made the
money but it was the spectacular runs by Sweden’s William Thorson and Norwegian Johnny Lodden that set
pulses racing. Both made it to the final 27 players of Day 8, the day when the November Nine are decided.
Lodden, the second shortest stack, bust swiftly in 27th place for $317,161 but Thorson seemed a plausible
candidate for the final until his jack-ten of diamonds was thwarted by John Racener’s KK. He was eliminated in
21st place, also for $317,161, the deepest ever WSOP Main Event run by a Team PokerStars Pro.

Other Team PokerStars Pros that finished well in the Main Event included British pro JP Kelly and Gualter
Salles from Brazil, who both survived to Day 6. Salles, a former racing car driver, had a remarkable experience
recovering from just a single $1k chip early on Day 5 to a peak of $1.5 million before busting in 117th place for
$57,102.ı JP Kelly was finally ousted in 111th place, also for $57,102.
New Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, winner of the PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun event in
Connecticut in April, cashed in 476th place forı$27,519. Her fellow team members Jason Mercier and Greg
DeBora from Canada also min-cashed on Day 5, while Humberto Brenes from Costa Rica andıFriend of
PokerStars Pierre Neuville from Belgium both made the money on Day 4.
Mercier cashed an impressive six times during the whole Series but his best finish was tenth place in the PLO
World Championship for $50,867. Brenes’ 736th place finish in the Main Event, for $19,263, was his 58th WSOP
cash, making him one of the most prolific WSOP earners of all time. He is now in joint sixth place in the “All
Time WSOP Cashes” list.
Young Michiel Sijpkens from Holland was the best-placed PokerStars qualifier in the Main Event. The 21-yearold
from Rotterdam, one of the youngest entrants this year, won his seat only six weeks after his birthday in a
$33 rebuy on PokerStars. He finished 19th for a $317,161 payday. His performance was the second best
Dutch result ever in the Main Event, after Team PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske came tenth in the Main Event for
$373,000 in 2004.
Outside of the Main Event, Pat Pezzin, one of four new Team PokerStars Pro Canada members, nearly
matched this year’s record for most cashes during the Series with seven overall. Russian Team PokerStars
Pro Alex Kravchenko and Victor Ramdin both cashed six times.
Five Team PokerStars Pros competed in the Tournament of Champions, a $500,000 free-roll whose 27
participants were all WSOP bracelet winners and voted into the event by the public. Daniel Negreanu came
sixth, Barry Greenstein came fifth and former world champion Joe Hachem came fourth, each winning
$25,000.
It’s now become a given that the PokerStars party is the biggest and most spectacular celebration of the World
Series, if not the entire poker year. This year’s gathering was no exception. As well as winning their seats,
accommodation and spending money, PokerStars qualifiers were guests of honour at the lavish bash, mingling
with Team PokerStars Pros and other stars as aerialists, podium dancers, roller-skaters and Canadian singer
Esthero provided non-stop entertainment into the small hours at the spectacular Rain Nightclub. Rap superstar
Snoop Dogg, a keen poker player himself, was the headline act and had the room rocking into the small hours
– a fitting sequel to last year’s performance by Nelly.

DAVID WILLIAMS AND VANESSA SELBST JOIN TEAM POKERSTARS PRO

As the WSOP* main event gets under way, PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, last night
announced two great new Team PokerStars Pro signings: seasoned poker pro David Williams and Yale
Law School student Vanessa Selbst join the team.

Williams is one of the most successful poker players of all time, with big results in both No Limit Hold’em
and mixed games. He has performed well playing in the biggest cash games around and to date has
acquired $7,923,630 in live tournament winnings. Like so many others who have gone on to become big
winners, Williams started out playing Magic: The Gathering, the collectible card game, and this ultimately
introduced him to poker.
Success took off for him when he came runner-up to fellow Team PokerStars Pro Greg Raymer in the
2004 WSOP* main event. He may not have taken top spot, but he still walked away with a massive
$3,500,000. This kick-started a fine run of tournament success, including a 7 Card Stud WSOP* bracelet
in 2006. More recently, he took down the WPT Championship for a cool $1,530,537. Williams is also a
big name online, with a PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title in an 8-Game
tournament for a cash of $107,800 in 2009.

Amazingly, Williams still finds time to play Magic: The Gathering with other poker pros. But as a new
Team PokerStars Pro, he’s looking forward to conjuring up even bigger tournament winnings.
Vanessa Selbst graduated from Yale with a degree in Political Science and is currently studying at Yale
Law School. She’s been a lifelong fan of games, including anything from cards to Pacman, and her love
of poker grew from there. In the space of just a few years, Selbst has built an incredible set of results at
major live tournaments, boasting $1,672,855 in live tournament earnings to date.
She made her first WSOP* final table in 2006, when she finished 7th in a $2,000 No Limit Hold’em
event, winning $101,285. Two years later, she won a WSOP* bracelet playing a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha
event, cashing $227,993 and beating a daunting field of 759. Selbst earned her biggest win earlier this
year, taking top spot in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun Main Event.
She took down the tournament for a huge cash of $750,000, confirming her status as a highly talented
poker player.

All this, and Selbst is still at Law School. An amazing start to a poker career that, with the backing of
PokerStars, looks set to deliver many more winning verdicts.
Williams and Selbst play online at PokerStars.com using the screen names ‘dwilliams’ and ‘V. Selbst’
respectively. For more details, visit: www.pokerstars.net

POKERSTARS.NET EMPIRE STATE HOLD’EM CHAMPIONSHIP

PokerStars.net is pleased to announce its involvement in The Empire State Hold’em Championship at
Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York.

Running from August 14-18, 2010, The Empire State Hold’em Championship will be sponsored by
PokerStars.net and will feature a $2,500 buy-in main event open to all players of 18 years of age and
older. This is an exciting new collaboration for PokerStars.net in New York State and should prove a
popular draw for many players.

Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona was opened in 1993 and boasts a spacious 32 table poker
room, plus 60 additional tournament tables. It also offers Vegas style gaming, some of the country’s top
award-winning championship golf courses, numerous restaurants and world class entertainment.
All this makes for the ideal venue for the player party, hosted by the resort and PokerStars.net, on the
eve of the main event, on August 13 at 8pm at Lava Night Club.
Jason DiBenedetto, Director of Poker Operations at Turning Stone Resort and Casino, states: “We are
very excited about our new partnership with PokerStars.net and look forward to welcoming players to
Turning Stone Resort for this premier poker event. There will be preliminary events beginning on August
9 leading up to the main event and several events running after the main event through August 22.” For
more details, visit: www.turningstone.com .
As usual, players can win their seats into the Empire State Championship on PokerStars.net. The
package, worth $4,000, includes main event buy-in, six nights’ accommodation and travel expenses.
Qualifying events can be found in the PokerStars.net lobby under tourney >> regional.
However, there will be more going on than just the main event. Team PokerStars.net Pro Vanessa
Rousso will be hosting a ‘Bigslick Boot Camp’ on August 13 at 1pm. Players can win their entry into the
boot camp online at www.pokerstars.net or by buying-in directly via the Boot camp website:
http://www.bigslickbootcamp.com .

“I am very excited about this PokerStars.net sponsored event!” says Rousso. “It’s the perfect setting to
run one of the Bigslick Boot Camps and I’m really excited to be coaching this session the day before the
Main Event.”

For more details on the Empire State Hold’em Championship, go to the website:

http://www.pokerstars.net/poker/promotions/empire-state-championship/

POKERSTARS GRANTED FRENCH LICENCE TO LAUNCH POKERSTARS.FR

PokerStars has announced the launch of PokerStars.fr, a French-only version of the world’s largest
online poker site, after being granted the licence number 0006-PO-2010-06-25 from the Autorité de
Régulation des Jeux en Ligne (ARJEL) to operate in France.

The PokerStars ARJEL application was submitted on May 19, 2010 and met all ARJEL licence
specification requirements. From now on, PokerStars.fr will enable French players initially to play free
money tournaments and sit and gos. PokerStars.fr will begin running cash games once the regulations
of the French government for online poker have been published. This looks likely to happen tomorrow,
Wednesday June 30.

The launch of PokerStars.fr signals a milestone addition to the PokerStars family, following on from
PokerStars being granted a licence to operate PokerStars.it in Italy in October 2008.
“Players on PokerStars.fr will have fantastic new opportunities, not only to play online but to win seats to
famous international poker events like the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour and the World Series
of Poker in Las Vegas,” said Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier. “These tournaments
require players to have the right mix of skill, training and concentration, and PokerStars.fr will be the
perfect place for players to work on that.”
The success of players such as Team PokerStars Pros Grospellier, along with Arnaud Mattern and
Thomas Bichon, has fuelled the phenomenal growth in popularity poker has experienced across France,
along with major tournaments such as those on the PokerStars European Poker Tour, an event of which
is played in Deauville, while the Grand Final takes place in Monte Carlo. In addition, French rugby
international Sebastian Chabal and tennis pro Gaels Monfils are ambassadors for PokerStars and play
online on PokerStars as well as at live PokerStars events.

“PokerStars.fr aims to be one of the leading online poker operators from the day the French market
opens, offering players the best tournaments, promotions and opportunities to win seats at PokerStars
world renowned international tournaments,” said PokerStars French Country Manager Alexandre
Balkany.

For more information, go to: www.pokerstars.fr

WIN YOUR SEAT TO THE FIRST EUROPEAN POKER TOUR EVENT OF SEASON 7 ON POKERSTARS.COM

Satellite qualifying tournaments are now running for the first ever EPT Tallinn stop – the debut event of
the PokerStars.com EPT Season 7. The event will run August 11-16 at the luxurious Swissôtel in Tallinn,
the stunning capital city of the Baltic state of Estonia.
A host of stars are already signed up for the €4,250 event, including: Team PokerStars Pro Katja Thater;
EPT Barcelona and WSOP bracelet winner Carter Phillips; EPT Berlin and EPT Players’ Choice Award
winner Kevin MacPhee; EPT Snowfest and Achievement of the Year winner Allan Baekke; EPT Kyiv and
EPT6 Player of the Year winner Max Lykov; and Friend of PokerStars Pierre Neuville. Almost 50 players
have already won their entry in satellites on PokerStars.com and at last week’s PokerStars Baltic
Adventure. Expectations are for more than 400 players in what will likely be the largest and richest poker
tournament ever held in the Baltic states.
Satellites for the EPT Tallinn Main Event are running now on PokerStars.com and PokerStars.it with a
full prize package worth €6,000 going to the winners. This includes a Main Event buy-in, seven nights’
accommodation at the 5* Swissôtel and €770 spending money. Players can qualify for as little as €5.45
or 250 Frequent Player Points.
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is not only one of the oldest capital cities in Northern Europe but also one
of the most beautiful. Located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, the city boasts one of the
best-conserved medieval old towns in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Summer
is the perfect time to visit Tallinn, which is famed for its vibrant nightlife and is often dubbed “the party
capital of Northern Europe”.
For players from around the world who are eager to enjoy a glorious summer on the Baltic,
PokerStars.com will be running a series of special online qualifier tournaments awarding “Super
Package” entries to both the PokerStars.com Russian Poker Series (RPS) Riga event in Latvia and the
PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn, as the two events run consecutively in two neighbouring countries. Players
will be able to qualify online for the €9,150 super-package, which provides winners with entries into both
events, hotel accommodation in both Riga and Tallinn, and includes transfer between the two Baltic
capitals, plus €1,360 for expenses.
The €2,000 Russian Poker Series Riga tournament takes place August 6-10 in the Latvian capital,
another stunning Baltic city famed for its nightlife and known as the “Paris of the North”. At the end of the
event, a bus transfer will whisk qualifiers 300 km north-east up to Tallinn for the EPT. Satellites for RPS
Riga are running now.

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