PokerNews Launches PokerNews Romania Website

(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 08, 2007 ) Nicosia, Cyprus -- PokerNews (http://www.pokernews.com) recently launched PokerNews Romania (http://ro.pokernews.com) – a website completely dedicated to poker news, information and resources with localized promotions - written entirely in Romanian.PokerNews Romania (http://ro.pokernews.com) is the latest addition to the ever-growing number of PokerNews language websites. Signalling the continued growth of poker in Europe, PokerNews Romania brings the number of European countries with a dedicated PokerNews language website to over ten.PokerNews Romania will provide all the features of a PokerNews website – the latest local and international poker news, resources for new players, reviews of online poker rooms, special localized promotions, and a community forum where Romania poker players can come together and discuss poker strategy, news and views. PokerNews Romania editor Monica Saavedra is understandably thrilled about the recent launch, "I am very excited to see a great project like this realised. I hope that Romanian PokerNews is going to reach all passionate poker players from Romania and also attract new players into the poker arena. Romanians will have access to a site that will give them all the resources and tools necessary to start or continue their trip into the poker world. Also, this site will certainly give more confidence to Romanians to interact with international players through the knowledge of rules, strategies, stories from other players and step-by-step guides for participating in online and land-based poker rooms."Monica hopes that PokerNews Romania will help introduce poker to a new audience, "The site will offer live updates and plenty of news. Due to the great expansion of poker all over the world, Romania already has a Romanian poker tour, but the number of participants is very low. Although there are no poker rooms in Romania some casinos have a table or two available. With such limited exposure, it is hard to create a strong poker community. Therefore I hope that Romanian PokerNews will be the spark which is needed to take Romanian poker to an international level."PokerNews currently provides websites for nationals of Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Russia, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Portugal, Estonia, Spain, China, Japan, Israel, Turkey and Romania. These sit alongside the English versions from the U.K, Australia and America. There are also a number of PokerNews language websites planned for launch in the coming months.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), PokerNewsBingo (http://bingo.pokernews.com) and PokerNewsBackgammon (http://backgammon.pokernews.com), which all provide up-to-date news and information in the PokerNews tradition.

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Gareth Edwards

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