David “Chino” Rheem Takes Down the Fourth Side Event at the 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau

August 17, 2009 (Macau, China) Just four days in, The Poker Pack already made its presence felt at the 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau when David “Chino” Rheem defeated Tommy Le to win the Hong Kong Game Club (HKGC) No Limit Hold ‘Em R+A tournament.

Rheem went heads-up against Poker Pack member Nam Le’s younger brother after building up his stack at the final table. In the end, his Q-9 proved to be better than Le’s J-10 on a Q-7-J flop. For the win, Chino took home HK $64,200 and the winner’s trophy. Le, on the other hand, won HK $38,500 for his runner-up finish. Also on the table was AsianLogic CEO Tom Hall, who finished seventh for HK $9,200.

The HKGC tournament was the fourth side event at the 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau. Rheem and the rest of The Poker Pack will be on hand during the twelve day festival of poker to play in the side events as well as the main event, which will be held on August 20.

The Poker Pack is a team of specially selected players of Asian origin who are ambassadors for the Asian Poker Tour. The group is composed of JC Tran, Nam Le, Quinn Do, David “Chino” Rheem, Steve Sung, and Kwang Soo Lee. Together, the six have more than US $24 million in live tournament winnings.

The 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau will be held at the StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau from August 12 to 23, 2009. Buy-in for the main event is set at HK $32,000 + $2,400.

For more information, log on to the Asian Poker Tour’s web site at www.asianpt.com

Poker In The Park Opens Today!

August 13, 2009 (London, UK) – At 5.00pm today the gates will swing open to Poker in the Park and Europe’s largest annual FREE Poker festival will get underway in the centre of London’s famous Leicester Square.

Thousands of people are set to descend upon Leicester Square today to take part in mass poker festivity.

Endorsed by Gamcare, the event will run from 5.00pm – 9.30pm today and will then re-open tomorrow (Friday 14th August) and run from 12.00pm – 9.30pm

Main attractions including the PKR Poker Dome will host many of the UK’s top pub poker leagues and will run a FREE turbo sit n go tournament with an 80 player cap every hour.

The Unibet Lecture Marquee will host some of the world’s most successful poker talent as they address the crowds in a series of lectures. The lecture schedules will run as follows:

Thursday, August 13th

17.15 Jamie Gold: Welcome speech and Charity tournament

18.00 Peter Eastgate: Q&A with current World Champion

18.45 Alex RoussoKnow the stats

19.30 Nik Persaud: Using the internet to improve your game

20.15 Neil Channing: Understanding tells

Friday, August 14th
12.30 Derek Webb: New poker games

13.15 Nik Wealthall: Luck in Poker

14.00 Derek Kelly: Omaha

14.45 Paul Jackson: Hand analysis

15.30 Liv Boeree

16.15 Tony Cascarino

17.00 Michael Greco

17.45 Alex Rousso

18.30 John Tabatabai

19.15 Derek Kelly: Book reading

20.00 Ian Frazer: Starting out in online poker

20.45 Jamie Gold

Make sure you don’t miss out!

PRIZES ANNOUNCED FOR JAMIE GOLD CHARITY TOURNAMENT

7 August 2009 (London, UK) - The Jamie Gold Charity Poker Tournament, to be held at The Casino at the Empire during the Poker in the Park festival in Leicester Square, London – 13th and 14th August, is giving away a huge variety of generous prizes.

The tournament, which aims to raise money for The Jamie Gold Foundation’s numerous charities, will be co-hosted by 2008 WSOP Main Event winner Peter Eastgate and will commence at 7.30pm on Thursday, 13th August at The Empire’s Shadow Lounge.

It will be a 50 player No Limit Texas Hold’em Freezeout Tournament with starting stacks of 7,000 chips and 20 minute blind levels. Forty seats will be available at £500 per seat – the other ten seats are reserved for personal invites of Gold and Eastgate.

A number of prizes have been generously donated. These include the following:

· EPT seat worth £5,200 donated by Poker Stars

· £3,000 Unibet Open Package

· Gresham Blake Tailor Made Suit

· Custom Chip Set from Marlow Casino Chips

· £1,000 Gevril Wristwatch courtesy of Bluff Europe magazine

· Custom Poker Table worth £3,000

· Tag Heuer Sunglasses

· £1,500 Oceanault Wristwatch donated by Jamie Gold

· £1,000 PopStar’ Experience including one nights accommodation at Reading's 5 Star Forbury Hotel

· Poker & Golf program with Dare2Dream

· A week's poker training by "The Maven" in his Las Vegas poker academy

Prizes will be awarded by choice. i.e. 1st place gets first pick, second place gets second pick and so on.

Attending the tournament will be Michael Greco, Teddy Sherringham and Mark Chadwick of the band the Levellers. Also attending will be Poker Pro JJ Hazan as well as Gold and Eastgate.