AUTHOR: Jerry "Jet" Whittaker TITLE: Online Poker: The not-so-new kid in town makes its debut DATE: 9:49 AM ----- BODY:

This Friday, November 24th Sportsbook.com Poker (see website here) will make its debut with the first of 57 nightly freerolls. Every evening at 9:00 PM EST Sportsbook.com members will have the opportunity to try out our new poker product, give us valuable feedback, win nightly cash prizes, and most importantly have a chance to win the $100,000 grand prize! The top 10 finishers in each of the 57 freerolls will not only win cash prizes, but they will also be entered into the online "Semifinal Freeroll" which will take place on January 20th. The top 50 finishers in this 570 member tournament will also take home a piece of the $10,000 prize pool. Those skilled enough to finish in the top 10 will win an all expense paid trip to the Sportsbook.com Super Bowl Party in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Not only will the 10 finalists enjoy the beautiful beaches of Cabo and attend the Sportsbook.com Super Bowl party, but they will also participate in the live $100,000 winner-takes-all finals. "Don't go to the mall the day after Thanksgiving. Get on Sportsbook.com and enter our one of a kind poker freeroll," said Sportsbook.com spokesperson, Dave Staley. "We are putting over $100,000 up for grabs, so if you think you have some poker skills, come and get it! The best part is if you don't finish in the top 10 on "Black Friday" you will have 56 additional cracks at making the semifinals! Even if you aren't a poker pro odds are you will luck out in one of those 57 freerolls!" In addition, Sportsbook.com Poker will have numerous cash freerolls on a daily basis. Members will have the opportunity to win thousands of dollars without a buy-in fee.

Why all of the freerolls? Aside from us loving them, this is the beta launch of our new poker platform featuring Sportsbook.com's beautiful onsite spokesperson Carrie Ann Stroup as the dealer. We're looking for direct player input on making this platform the best possible, so we're opening it up early to get your ideas and desires. After we've given away thousands in cash prizes and gathered the necessary feedback, cash games, tournaments and other features will soon follow.

Contestants can enter the Sportsbook.com Black Friday $100,000 Freeroll immediately. The Black Friday $100,000 Freeroll is just one of the ways Sportsbook.com is giving their members a chance to win $100,000 including the weekly $100,000 Perfect Parlay Challenge and the $100,000 Black Friday Trivia Challenge.

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