Paradise Has a New Online Poker Millionaire

NASSAU, Bahamas, Dec. 20 - Santino Sgambelluria arrived in the Bahamas a casual online poker player with hopes of winning the big one. The dream is now a reality for the family man and Naval Officer. On Sunday, he became only the second person to ever win $1 million in an online tournament at Paradise Poker's $1 million freeroll tournament.

Final Standings:

Place Name & Pay-out

• 1st Santino Sgambelluri $1,000,000

• 2nd Ryan Boyes $10,000

• 3rd Shane Patreau $10,000

• 4th Stephen Folusewych $10,000

• 5th Alan McFarlane $10,000

• 6th Antony Giles $10,000

• 7th John Medlin $10,000

• 8th Kevin McCann $10,000

• 9th Stephen Fiske $10,000

• 10th Nick Price $10,000

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Bodog Launches New Player Tourneys

Online poker room, Bodog, has announced the launch of its Beginner Tournaments, a special program to get new players started on successful tournament play.

New players often hear from more experienced players that “you have to pay for your poker education”. Through gaining experience, players become seasoned in the strategies that lead to consistent success.

“By playing in our Beginner Tournaments, players have up to twice the chance to make it into the money when comparing the number of payouts to a typical tournament,” said Calvin Ayre, Bodog Founder and CEO. “ The prize structure of these events, pays up to twice as many players – they will make the money more frequently thus preserving their poker bankroll as they learn the game.”

Beginner Sit and Go Tournaments are listed under the “Sit and Go” tournament button in the poker software. These tournaments are available 24/7 and will start when 10 players buy in and sit down at the table. Players simply open a table and click on an empty seat to play. The cost to enter these tournaments is $4 + $0.40. When playing in these tournaments, 50% of players are paid. In Bodog’s standard Sit and Go tournaments, only 30% of players are paid.

Bodog Poker is an an industry leader with aggressive tournament schedules offering $1.8 million in guarantees a month and a weekly $100,000 guaranteed tournament, plus WPT and WSOP qualifiers.

For more info and details on on the Beginner Sit n' Go Tournaments, visit Bodog Poker now!

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Poker Yellow & Bodog $100 Match Bonus!

Poker Yellow and Bodog have combined for a special offer for new clients to wager during the Holiday Season.

Open a new account today with Bodog.com and once you deposit $100 you will receive a free $100 match bonus into your account.

Offer is valid until January 1, 2006 to NEW Customers only. Sign-Up now and makeyour first deposit to get your free $100 bonus from Bodog Poker.

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Be $100 Million Richer atTitan Poker!

Titan Poker, the newst and most exciting online poker site, is proud to announce the $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Freeroll Tournament that will feature:

• $500,000 in Guaranteed Prizes
• A $100 Million Jackpot, which could be won in a single hand of poker
• 7 additional Jackpot hands, offering players a chance to win millions more
• Free entry to all qualified Titan Poker players

In addition to the $500,000 in Guaranteed Prizes at this tournament, one player has the chance of going home with the largest prize ever awarded in any sport - $100,000,000! And it all depends on the five cards that player is holding.

Titan Poker will host two Daily Freeroll Qualifiers awarding five seats each at their upcoming $500,000 Online Main Event Freeroll, which will be staged on Sunday, April 30, 2006. When the Online Main Event Freeroll narrows down to 10 final players, the action will be suspended.

The Final Table will be held in a secret location in May, 2006, one player will have the chance to win the $100,000,000 Hand.

During the Final Table action, if one of the players will hit a Royal Flush of Spades, he will win the $100,000,000 Grand Prize! And that’s not all, if any player comes close to hitting the Royal Flush, he’ll also go home a millionaire!

Play at Titan Poker now for a chance to enter the world’s most exciting poker freeroll!

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