Released on: August 5, 2008, 11:45 pm

Press Release Author: Maria Gomez

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: Deep inside the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
is the Amazon Room. For the past six weeks, this cavernous space has been home to
the largest poker tournament series ever held: the 2008 World Series of Poker.

Press Release Body: San Jose, Costa Rica, August 06, 2008 -- Members of the online
poker community PocketFives.com have dominated at the 2008 World Series of Poker,
racking up the most profitable year to date even before the results from the Main
Event have been determined. PocketFivers have racked up $15.9 million in earnings
from this year's WSOP, just shy of 10% of the total prize pool given away. A total
of eight players from PocketFives.com have won bracelets; the latest was Matt
"mattg1983" Graham, who took home $278,180 for winning Event #53, the $1,500 Limit
Shootout tournament.

PocketFivesLive.com, the premier destination for WSOP coverage of online poker
players, has been live at the Rio since the tournament series began in May. WSOP
Representative Nolan Dalla, who joined the PocketFives Podcast this week, commented
on the massive turnout at the 2008 World Series of Poker: "We had an 8% increase in
the number of participants. We had a 13% increase in the total prize money paid out,
which is $180 million in 55 events."

PocketFives.com members won 7 of 11 major tournaments over the July 4th holiday
weekend, led by Paul \"PIsom23\" Isom, who took down the PokerStars Sunday Million
tournament for $177,000. Anthony \"holdplz\" Spinella won the Full Tilt $750K
Guaranteed for close to $133K, and \"JohnnyBelow\" of Norway won the Full Tilt Sunday
Brawl for $61,500. \"Webez\" earned $37,500 for his victory in the Absolute Poker
$150K Guaranteed Weekly tournament, while \"Deckzor\" of Germany won the PokerStars
$200 Sunday rebuy for $49k. \"Deckzor\" had to battle fellow PocketFiver Mike
\"SirWatts\" Watson heads-up for over an hour to come out with the victory. Long time
member \"pkb6786\" received $23,600 for his win in the Bodog $100K Guaranteed and
\"dipthrong\" won the Full Tilt Sunday Mulligan for $44,400.

Daniel \"djk123\" Kelly is number one in the online tournament rankings this week, but
\"shaundeeb\" of New York is close behind and moved up one spot to number two. Jon
\"PearlJammer\" Turner and Phil \"USCphildo\" Collins moved up two spots to #5 and #7
respectively this week, but the big leap came from Stian \"JohnnyBelow\" Stabell of
Norway. Stian moved up 35 to #50 in the world at online tournament play after
winning the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl for $61,500 and placing third in the PokerStars
Sunday Second Chance for $27,600 on the same day. Anthony \"holdplz\" Spinella of
North Carolina entered the rankings this week at #69 following his victory in the
Full Tilt $750K Guaranteed for nearly $133K. \"Pokersavage1\" entered the rankings
this week at #77 after placing second in the PokerStars Sunday Million for over
$120K.

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Contact:
Maria Gomez
Pocket Fives
San Jose, Costa Rica
(506) 2289-6647
maria@fvsrl.com
http://www.pocketfives.com/

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San Jose, Costa Rica