PokerStars was launched in September 2001. PokerStars has become a poker industry leader largely due to its
wide diversity of games and limits, world-class customer support, sponsorship
of major tournaments and events worldwide, and its close affiliation with the
last three World Series of Poker champions.

Draper will have a chance to
make his dream come true by playing in two of the richest and most prestigious
tournament in poker.
At its peak, PokerStars. SportStat is a Detroit-based
sports technology company founded by technology developer and CEO Johnny
Richardson and former Detroit Lions All-Pro receiver Herman Moore, SportStat
president and COO, who also served as honorary chairman of the event.

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The All-Stars participating in the
event hailed from Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico and the U.
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com) is the world's most innovative online
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That
translates into tens of thousands of games and tournaments from which players
can choose. That can now be
transferred from the field to their phone or PDA thanks to SCORE.

It is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Yesterday, the world's largest tournament poker site made history once again,
registering its five millionth player.

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com Surpasses 5,000,000 Player Mark

LOS ANGELES, Three weeks ago, PokerStars.
In February 2006, PokerStars. A whopping 1,116
entrants (19 percent of the field) qualified to play in the 2005 WSOP via
PokerStars satellites. PokerStars is the site where the 2003 and 2004 World
Series of Poker champions won their entries into the WSOP .
Another feather in Detroit's hat is the announcement that the City will be
hosting the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) 2008 Spring championships.

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"There are more than 156,000
members of the American Contract Bridge League and we want them to feel
welcome in Detroit.

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The five-millionth player is George Draper, from Las Vegas, NV. The reigning world
poker champion , Joe Hachem, has also been an active player at PokerStars since
2001.
"The nature of our event means that families from five different countries
and three continents take an avid interest in the action.A.

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Since then, that number has
doubled. The winner will also receive an entry into
the main event of the fourth annual World Championship of Online Poker, the
world's largest online poker tournament, with an estimated prize pool of $5
million.pokerstars.
To date, PokerStars has dealt nearly five billion hands and run more than
20 million poker tournaments, awarding well over $4 billion in prize money.com became the first poker website ever to
reach the 100,000 simultaneous player mark.
"We were delighted that fans of the NFL Global Junior Championship were
able to follow the games through SCORE technology," said tournament organizer
Patrick Steenberge.
"If we can draw many bridge players from our local metropolitan area, we
will be in a good position to become part of the regular rotation for national
tournaments," Horwitz said. Different events
will be held each day and one does not need to be an ACBL member to compete.

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Five Million and Counting !

PokerStars is the world's largest poker tournament room, with over 5 million
registered player accounts.com Sunday Million is
played every week, which is the largest weekly tournament on the planet with a
$1 million guaranteed tournament prize pool. In the fall, PokerStars hosts the world's largest online
tournament, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). "The ability to watch the most exciting plays via a cell
phone was the perfect complement to the other forms of live streaming we were
able to provide from the Silverdome. Make way for the 2008 Spring North American Bridge Championships .
"We think this event fits nicely with Detroit's emerging status as a
premier host of national events," said Karmanos.

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announced the first $1 million guaranteed weekly tournament in history . He is a
35-year-old chef who is new to online poker.com site is also one of the most secure.

About SportStat
SportStat, LLC is a sports technology company headquartered in Detroit ,
Michigan that produces wireless, media-rich content applications and services.

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com has over 100,000 players at a time. By comparison, PokerStars has nearly 50 times more players and
games than the world's largest land-based poker room, which has only 243
tables.
PokerStars is an official member of the World Poker Tour, and the title
sponsor of the European Poker Tour (EPT) and the PokerStars Caribbean
Adventure.com, thus fortifying the company trademark, "Where Poker Players
Become World Champions."
Compuware, an industry leader in enterprise software and information
technology services, has its headquarters only two blocks away from the site
of the tournament.

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The PokerStars .com sent more players to the World
Series of Poker (WSOP) than any other source or website. "We're
pleased with the success of SCORE in the NFL Global Junior Championship and
are looking forward to the results the technology will yield in the upcoming
Southwestern Athletic Conference's basketball tournament," said Johnny
Richardson, developer of the SCORE technology.net

Karmanos said he intends to play in the tournament, and hopes that local
bridge players join him at the event .
The American Contract Bridge League is a not-for-profit organization that
has been the main sanctioning body for duplicate bridge tournaments in North
America since 1937.

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It also sanctions
nearly 3,500 local bridge clubs.

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To put these stunning numbers in perspective, if the PokerStars community
were a country, it would be the 112th largest country in the world, ranking
higher than half of the world's countries. The PokerStars population is
larger than the populations of Los Angeles and Dallas combined. Money covering player's balances is held in
segregated accounts managed by the Royal Bank of Scotland, ensuring that
PokerStars can fulfill its obligations to players at all times.

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5 million registered players. "Many people who
might be intimidated at the thought of playing inside a casino find that
playing at PokerStars is a comfortable and convenient alternative.
For more information about PokerStars. PokerStars' support team is truly unique, as help
and assistance is available around the clock from people who know and
understand the game of poker and the importance of impeccable customer
service."
The NFL Global Junior Championship is an annual event played in the Super
Bowl host city and showcases 180 of the top teenage football players from
around the world during Super Bowl week. The ACBL
estimates that the tournament will produce about a $10 million economic impact
for the region. The Detroit Metro Convention + Visitors Bureau
coordinated the bid for the tournament.
Horwitz said that they will have the same attention to detail and the same
kind of participation from local residents as did the Super Bowl.

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" Horwitz added that Compuware's
sponsorship of the tournament gives the local host committee the ability to
set a new standard for hosting national bridge tourneys.
"Unlike the Super Bowl, you don't have to worry about not having a ticket.

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NFL Global Junior Championship SCOREs with SportStat Wireless Technology

DETROIT, SportStat's patented SCORE (Statistics
Created Online Real-time Everywhere) technology provided coaches and parents
of the world's top 180 teenage football players access to real-time play-by-
play video during the NFL Global Junior Championship held in metro Detroit at
the Pontiac Silverdome the week of Jan 22 - 29. "While this is clearly not on the same
scale as the Super Bowl, we still want the Detroit experience to be
spectacular for bridge players as well.
If you come, there will be a bridge table for you to compete against players
at the same skill level," said Karmanos.

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Reaching the five-million player landmark demonstrates a phenomenal rate
of growth for PokerStars, and the online poker industry overall, in recent
years . Millions
of players from all walks of life who are living in many different countries
have signed up at PokerStars because we make playing poker fun, exciting, and
easy. PokerStars was the first site to introduce features that became
industry standard such as sophisticated multi-table tournaments , integrated
game statistics, players' notes, personalized images, time bank for
tournaments and big bet ring games, satellite tournaments, multi-table sit and
go tournaments, and much more.
More than 10,000 tables of bridge players from all over the world will be in
competition at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center from
March 6 - 16, 2008.

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It is the first time since 1981 that Detroit has hosted a
national bridge championship.

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"
The lucky five-millionth player will receive a poker player's dream prize:
a World Series of Poker main event prize package, with an opportunity to win a
record $10 million first prize. PokerStars uses
industry-leading security software to ensure the integrity of the system,
including encryption, card shuffle randomness and preventative measures
against cheating and collusion. The PokerStars.SportStat provides access to real-time play -by-play video via wireless
technology for NFL-sanctioned event as part of Super Bowl Week festivities .
Compuware Chairman and CEO Peter Karmanos is an avid bridge player.

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PokerStars.
"It is no surprise that PokerStars is leading the boom in online poker,"
said Chris Welch, PokerStars.com

About PokerStars
PokerStars (http://www.
During the last three years, PokerStars .

Detroit to Host 2008 National Bridge Championships

The tournament will be sponsored by Compuware Corporation.

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Less than a year ago,
PokerStars had 2.com, please visit:
http://www.pokerstars . PokerStars also
sponsors major events around the globe, such as the World Cup of Poker and
other exciting tournaments. He joined Moneymaker and Raymer as official representatives of
PokerStars .
SportStat's SCORE wireless technology application package provides coaches,
scouts, parents , schools, students, alumni and sports enthusiasts with the
ability to capture and access real-time play-by-play video and information
from games at the professional, college, high school or league level.

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That watershed achievement marked
the largest poker event in history.sportstatz.
"Detroit set the standard with its hosting of the Super Bowl this year,"
said Ronald Horwitz, former dean and finance professor at Oakland University
and co-chair of the 2008 tournament.
He noted that a variety of events from beginner games through top-flight
national competitions are part of the Spring tournament.