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Pogo.com Expands Free Casino Games Offering; $1 Million Lottery

7 August 2000

SAN FRANCISCO, California –(Press Release)--Aug. 7, 2000 -- pogo.com(TM), the leading provider of free online games for the broad consumer market, today announced the immediate availability of three new games in its no-risk casino games category.

``Bank Buster Lotto(TM),'' a $1 million lottery giveaway game, joins Video Blackjack and Video Slots to increase pogo.com's casino games area, which already includes Bingo, Video Poker, Roulette and Keno, to seven games.

By far the most popular risk-free gambling games on the Web, pogo.com's casino games are played by more than 7 million people each month, in addition to the company's two dozen trivia, word, board, card, puzzle and classic arcade games. With the addition of the three new games, pogo.com expects to award $500,000-$1.5 million in cash prizes over the next 12 months.

As with its other free casino games, Video Poker and Slots utilize pogo.com's prize-redemption system, which enables players to participate in drawings for varying cash amounts up to $1,000, as well as instantly winning jackpots of as much as $5,000 in cash.

Buckaroo Blackjack(TM) pogo.com's online version of the classic video blackjack game adds several new twists. Stretching the standard blackjack rules to reward players with more and larger payouts, Buckaroo Blackjack features ``silver'' and ``gold,'' aces and jacks, which increase the player's payout for a winning hand by nearly a hundredfold in certain combinations, without requiring any additional bet.

Ali Baba Slots(TM)

An innovative take on traditional slot machines, pogo.com's Ali Baba Slots offers a unique ``storyline'' underlying the regular play. While attempting to match like symbols for various payouts as in ``real world'' slots, Ali Baba Slots also enables players to complete a 20-chapter story in which Ali Baba seeks to recover the legendary seven lost jewels.

Discovering all seven jewels results in a bonus payout of pogo tokens to players. Further, getting three genies on the center ``win line'' instantly yields the progressive jackpot, which can grow to as much as $5,000 in cash.

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