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FullTiltPoker.Net Championship Aired Live

LAS VEGAS – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Get ready for the sporting event heard around the world with the first, live, international telecast from Las Vegas of the FullTiltPoker.Net Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. On July 13th, FSN, FullTiltPoker.Net and Wynn Las Vegas will make history with a sporting event rivaling the biggest of the biggest international sporting spectaculars with an all-star cast. Beginning live at 3:00 PST on Wed., July 13, 2005 and airing simultaneously in the U.S., UK, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Holland, and Denmark, this is a one of a kind, international, mega gaming event.

Held at the night club La Bete at Wynn Las Vegas, the tournament features Team Full Tilt, the biggest rounders in the game, playing for a $500,000 cash pool and other prizes. Scheduled to appear in the tournament are 2000 World Series of Poker champion Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, WSOP bracelet winners Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Erik Seidel, Jennifer Harman, 2003 World Poker Tour Ladies Night winner Clonie Gowen, plus poker pros Phil Gordon, Andy Bloch, Erick Lindgren, Doyle Brunson, Annie Duke, and Phil Hellmuth. Also, 2004 Card Player Magazine Player of the Year Daniel Negreanu, Poker Ambassador to Wynn Las Vegas joins the fray. FSN veteran announcer Barry Tompkins calls the action, and poker pro Howard "The Professor" Lederer provides commentary.

FSN, the premier network in poker television and the first U.S. network to show poker live; the night club La Bete at Wynn Las Vegas, the newest luxury resort on the strip; FullTiltPoker.net, the best free online poker site, with the most world renown pros: A trio of excellence each playing its part in bringing fans an unrivaled, live, global television event as FSN televises the final table of the FULLTILTPOKER.NET CHAMPIONSHIP AT WYNN LAS VEGAS.

And of course, with all these highlights, it wouldn't be an FSN event unless it offered the viewer more than just standard card games. Every player at the final table will be wearing a heart monitor. As they push tens of thousands of dollars into the pot, viewers will get to see if the pros are as cool and calm as they appear or if they are sitting there with stoic faces while their insides churn because they've been put full tilt.

With innovative graphics, superior customer service and a safe, secure interface, FullTiltPoker.Net is the best free poker site on the Web. FullTiltPoker.Net uses the Full Tilt Poker(TM) software which was developed by TiltWare LLC, a software development and licensing company based in Los Angeles, California and licensed to Kolyma Corporation, A.V.V. which is regulated and licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in Canada. "Team Full Tilt," is a select group of the world's finest professional poker players, including Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Phil Gordon (co-host, Celebrity Poker Showdown), Clonie Gowen, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman and others.

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