POKER PLAYER TAKES ON PRO

For Immediate Release -- June 6, 2006

Never has the opportunity to play opposite a poker professional been so easy. Among the recent initiatives by online gaming giant Bodog.com is a tournament that allows poker novices to play heads-up poker against Bodog.com poker pros David Williams and Josh Arieh on a weekly-basis.

Each week, the Bodog.com poker player who finishes first on the weekly Tournament Leader Board is given a chance to play heads-up poker against one of the two pros for $1,000. If one of the pros wíns, the money is rolled over. With the pros winning the last nine weeks, the stakes are higher than ever with a prize pool of $10,000. Will one of Bodog.com's players take out Arieh or Williams this weekend? To find out, download Bodog.com's poker software at: https://www.bodog.com/poker

"Our goal here is to provide our players with every single opportunity possible to develop and hone their playing skills so they too can play like a pro," says Calvin Ayre, Founder and CEO of Bodog.com" says Calvin Ayre, Founder and CEO of Bodog.com, and recent host of the popular poker and lifestyle television series, Calvin Ayre Wild Card Poker, which aired on Fox Sports Net earlier this year. "Bodog.com Poker has garnered a reputation as an effective training ground for many players, who eventually graduate to playing cards at land-based casínos."

Bodog.com's Tournament Leader Board ranking system allows players to gauge their play against thousands of others. The Leader Board is based on a system that distributes points for top finishers in the numerous tournaments offered each week at Bodog.com. The criteria used to determine how many points each player is accorded includes: the number of players in the tournament, the buy-in level, and the individual player's final rank. Those players who finish in the top 20 percent of each tournament are awarded points.

For more on the prizes: https://www.bodog.com/promotions/poker/tournament-leader-board/

For the Bodog Tournament Leader Board: https://www.bodog.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board.jsp

Last year, Bodog.com guaranteed its online poker players more than 70 seats at the WSOP, a Las Vegas-based series of tournaments held over the course of six weeks. This year, Bodog.com is qualifying 700 players for preliminary and main WSOP events, which begin on June 25.

Among its many offerings, Bodog.com also includes a sportsbook, racebook and casíno. Bodog.com has an international record label (Bodog Music), an international television division that produces television content around the world, and a publishing division that produces both BodogNation (an online magazine) and Bodog Beat (a blog).

Check out https://www.bodog.com/poker/ for the complete Bodog.com Poker experience.

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