Team PokerNews Announces $250,000 in World Series of Poker Freerolls

(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 13, 2007 ) Melbourne, VIC -- PokerNews.com (http://www.pokernews.com) recently launched its Team PokerNews World Series of Poker promotion (http://www.pokernews.com/wsop-2007), which will give away over $250,000 in online poker freerolls. Each Team PokerNews WSOP Freeroll will award one $12,000 WSOP 2007 package, and there are over 20 freerolls currently scheduled, with many more to be announced.Team PokerNews (http://www.pokernews.com/wsop-2007) has recently announced that they will host over twenty $12,000 World Series of Poker Freerolls, giving away over $250,000 in prizes.Each freeroll winner will receive a $12,000 World Series of Poker package which includes entry to the 2007 WSOP Main Event (valued at $10,000), plus $2,000 for travel and accommodation. All of the winners will also get to be a part of Team PokerNews and will experience extra benefits such as custom clothing and merchandise, plus invites to special team functions.There are $12,000 Team PokerNews WSOP Freerolls scheduled at Full Tilt Poker, Party Poker, Titan Poker, Pacific Poker, CD Poker, Everest Poker, Wingows Poker, Prime Poker, Gnuf Poker, and Sportsbook Poker. Each of these freerolls is exclusive to new players who download the software through PokerNews links and register a new account, as well as players that have previously signed up to the respective room(s) through PokerNews in the past.Each Team PokerNews freeroll has a unique set of requirements – the full schedule and details of how to qualify for each freeroll can be found at http://www.pokernews.com/freeroll-tournaments.Last year Team PokerNews sent over 20 players to the 2006 WSOP, where two freeroll winners made the money – the highest finisher being Per Erik Loeff from Norway who took home $51,129 for his 118th place finish. Expect Team PokerNews to be even bigger and better in 2007!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, live feeds of tournaments available online as well as special bonuses and freerolls, and is available in over 20 different languages. PokerNews Ltd also incorporates PokerNewsCasino (http://casino.pokernews.com) and PokerNewsBackgammon (http://backgammon.pokernews.com), which both provide up-to-date news and information in the PokerNews tradition.###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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Gareth Edwards

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