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RECORD-BREAKING POKERSTARS BALTIC FESTIVAL RETURNS TO TALLINN

Mai 25, 2010

PokerStars announces the return of the region’s largest poker tournament, the PokerStars Baltic
Festival, to be held at the luxurious Swissôtel in Tallinn, Estonia from 16-19 June 2010.
Team PokerStars Pro Peter Eastgate from Denmark, the 2008 world champion, said: “It was a
great event last year and I will definitely recommend it to all the players I know.” Eastgate’s fellow
teammate William Thorson from Sweden added: “Swissôtel in Tallinn is one of the best venues I
have seen during my poker career.”

Following last October’s record-breaking inaugural event, this year’s PokerStars Baltic Festival will
have an increased buy-in of €1,500, up from €1,100. The bigger buy-in will appeal to the large
number of celebrated poker pros in the region and help ensure new regional records are set with
this year’s event.
PokerStars Baltic Festival 2010, held in conjunction with Olympic Casino, will take place from June
16-19 and players will be able to qualify for the event online with PokerStars. In addition to the
Main Event, a range of side events, cash games and Sit and Gos are planned. The exact festival
programme – and schedule for the online satellites – will be announced shortly.
The first PokerStars Baltic Festival in October 2009 brought together 307 players from 24 countries
to create a prize pool of more than €300,000. The winner of the main event was Thomas Partridge
from the UK, who cashed more than €75,000. The €10,600 High Roller event was won by the
Finnish high stakes player Ville Wahlbeck; American PokerStars Passport winner Shaun Deeb was
second.

A wealth of other big poker names also attended the event from all over the world, including Team
PokerStars Pros Peter Eastgate, Johnny Lodden and William Thorson, JC Alvarado and the
legendary Tony G. Taking part among the celebrities and sportstars were NHL legend Mats Sundin
and Formula 1 Powerboat champion Sami Selio, both members of Team PokerStars SportStar, as
well as celebrated Norwegian actor Aksel Hennie, Olympic canoe champion Alvydas Duonela from
Lithuania, Danish tennis champion Kenneth Carlsen, the Finnish ski-jump coach Tommi Nikunen
and former NBA player Martin Müürsepp from Estonia.

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