PokerNews Cup to Be Televised by NPL to Over Half a Billion Households

PokerNews.com has just entered into a partnership with the National Poker League (NPL) (http://www.nplworldpoker.com) to film and broadcast the upcoming PokerNews Cup (http://www.pokernewscup.com), which will take place from October 21-29, 2007 at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The NPL will be filming five one-hour episodes from the PokerNews Cup, which will air in mid-December 2007 to over half a billion households worldwide through such networks as MOJO HD (Time Warner, Comcast, Cox Communications and Cablevision), the WGN Superstation Cable Network, and CBS Stations Group via syndication in the U.S., plus TF1 in France (Eurosport France, Jet Sports and TMC), Sky Italia in Italy, EuroSport in the UK, Spain and Poland, and many more.

The PokerNews Cup features six championship events, culminating in the three-day AUD$3,000 buy-in Main Event. The PokerNews Cup Main Event is expected to draw a large international field and generate a prizepool well in excess of $1M. The NPL will film all three days of the Main Event, with a feature table surrounded by audience seating to be constructed on the floor of the Crown Poker Room.

"We are thrilled to partner with the NPL to bring the PokerNews Cup to television," stated Gareth Edwards, Marketing Director, PokerNews Limited. "It is very exciting to able to launch the PokerNews Cup in such a great facility, and with worldwide TV distribution. We believe the PokerNews Cup Australia will be a great event and hope this will be a sign of things to come."

The NPL will also film the PokerNews Australian Bad Boys of Poker Invitational – a AUD$10,000 single-table tournament featuring some of Australia’s most well-known and vocal players. The lineup at present features 2005 World Series of Poker Champion Joe Hachem, reigning WPT Bad Boy of Poker Antanas “Tony G” Guoga, WSOP bracelet winners Jeff Lisandro, Mark Vos and Gary Benson, 2006 EPT London runner-up Emad Tahtouh, plus local high-stakes players Billy “The Croc” Argyros, Arul Thillai, Sam Khouiss and David Saab.

The PokerNews Cup is the first live tournament to be hosted by PokerNews.com. Over 100 poker players from around the world will be participating in the PokerNews Cup for free via exclusive PokerNews freerolls, with over $500,000 in prizes to be given away throughout the promotion which extends to early October.

About PokerNews Limited
PokerNews Limited 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, special bonuses and freerolls, and is available in over 25 different languages. PokerNews has recently branched out into tournament reporting and was named as the exclusive live update and chip count provider for the 2007 World Series of Poker, as is the official online media partner for Season One of the PokerStars Asia-Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), and the Aussie Millions. PokerNews are also hosting their first live poker tournament – the PokerNews Cup (http://www.pokernewscup.com) – which will take place at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia from October 21-29, 2007.

About the National Poker League (NPL)
The National Poker League (NPL) is a media-focused company – creating poker tournaments and poker related content for worldwide distribution. NPL does not own or operate any online gambling sites. NPL, is a division of New Vision Media Corp., a Nevada Corporation with administrative offices in Los Angeles at 655 S. Flower Street #112, Los Angeles, CA 90017. For further background information on the NPL, the Global Circuit Poker Tournaments, Television hosts, and television broadcast partners please request a press kit for the media or visit http://www.nplworldpoker.com.