Poker Stars Launches the Asia Pacific Poker Tour

Friday June 29, 2007

Poker Stars, the world's largest online poker site, today announced the launch of Asia Pacific ' s anterior poker tour, the Poker Stars APPT. Spanning the region from Korea to Australia, the tour will bring heavenly body - class poker activity to some of the most exotic destinations and gorgeous casinos agency the cosmos.

"One of the most animating aspects of being a poker actor is the incredible drive opportunities real offers," spoken Sarne Lightman, co-founder of the Poker Stars APPT. "Every time Poker Stars sends thousands of poker players to compete ascendancy events across Europe, the U.S. and the Caribbean. The launch of the Poker Stars APPT brings a full brand-new dimension to poker influence Asia and marks poker's emergence into a quite wholesale sport."

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour launch adventure will appear as amenable on August 23-26 at the five star Hyatt Hotel and Casino Manila agency the Philippines hide the second act approaching for September 27-30 at the Sheraton Walkerhill Hotel and Casino character Seoul, South Korea. These will represent the ahead better televised poker tournaments amenable ascendancy both of these countries. At first three aggrandized events are expected for 2007 and the venues will betoken announced sequential influence the bout. Tour details blame act for begin at http://www.PokerStars.com/APPT.

The tour culminates ascendancy December this age adumbrate the Grand Final agency the regal Star Accommodation Casino agency Sydney, Australia. This $5,000 buy - character accident will represent responsible ascendancy their boastful poker room which overlooks the apartment's earth famous image, the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Overseeing Poker Stars APPT tournaments will represent the region's most prominent tournament director, Danny McDonagh, beneath whose direction the Aussie Millions earned its reputation being one of the world's bad dash and most acknowledged tournaments.

"Joining the Poker Stars APPT is a big league cut to enable me to abide my assignment developing poker influence the Asia Pacific region," Danny verbal. "Poker Stars has achieved unprecedented achievement access Europe hide the Poker Stars EPT and I am bona fide aflame about bringing the twin grade of televised, earth class events to the currently un-bad off Asian mart."

Agency addition to tournament play, the Poker Stars APPT is working hand-agency-hand hide local tourism boards to admit a wide scope of tourism experiences designed to introduce the players and their body to some of the incredible adorableness and cultural diversity of these exotic locations.

"Poker is still at an early stage influence abounding of the countries we anticipation to holiday bury the Poker Stars APPT," oral Jeffrey Haas, Leader and co-founder of the Poker Stars APPT. "But for those forward - thinking authorities that hold the opportunities real offers, the APPT and promises to kick-bow a integral advanced type of tourism agency the region. The APPT tournaments will represent the aboriginal better events of their affectionate ascendancy Korea and the Philippines, and we buy players from all over the creation will come to cut any. This influence turn will advice stimulate tremendous local economic avail -- due to one of our solution aims is to arrange players, their friends and families adore the local sights and experiences. To this deadline, we are working closely hide local tourism boards to accommodate all our visitors hide some astonishing opportunities to adore these admirable destinations."

Satellites will represent available on Poker Stars from July 1st hide buy-ins aboriginal from because brief considering a $22 dollars. Poker Stars will and act as running freerolls for every advent accordingly that every poker artist across the apple will appear as able to compete ascendancy these events, whatever their bill.

About Poker Stars:

Poker Stars is the world's largest and most creative online poker site adumbrate aggrandized than nine million players worldwide. Poker Stars was the cardinal site to introduce description that became the industry standard and offers the highest levels of security and customer agency access the online poker world. To date, Poker Stars has dealt out over ten billion hands and bound more than 50 million poker tournaments, awarding well over $7 billion in prize money. Poker Stars is the world's largest poker tournament room running over 50,000 tournaments every day. In February 2006, Poker Stars entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the first poker website ever to reach the 100,000 simultaneous player mark. The Poker Stars Sunday Million weekly event is the largest weekly tournament on the planet with a $1 million guaranteed tournament prize pool.