Released on: October 30, 2008, 11:50 am

Press Release Author: Pocket Fives

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: The final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event will
resume on Sunday, November 9th and play will occur until the final two participants
remain. Heads-up play takes place on November 10th and the tournament will air on
cable station ESPN on November 11th. Assuming key roles in the tournament will be
PocketFiver Scott Montgomery, who will be seated at the final table, and Harrah's
own Seth Palansky, Sports and Entertainment Director of Communications for Harrah's.
Both join us on this week's PocketFives.com Podcast to get us ready for poker's
biggest annual event.

Press Release Body: San Jose, Costa Rica - October 31, 2008 -- (Express Press
Release) When play resumes in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, 117 days
will have passed since the final nine players were determined. This time, the action
will move down the hall from the Amazon Room to the spacious Penn and Teller
Theater, which will serve as the two-day home of the Main Event final table. Holding
the third largest chip stack when play resumes will be PocketFives.com member Scott
"r_a_y" Montgomery. In the background will be Harrah's Sports and Entertainment
Director of Communications, Seth Palansky. Both join us this week on the
PocketFives.com Online Poker
Podcast.

On the change of venue for the WSOP Main Event final table, Palansky explained, "We
billed this as poker's biggest night and felt it deserved its own stage setting
appropriate to that. We've taken over the Penn and Teller Theater. We're going to
fill it with friends and family of the participants as well as the general public
and hope to have a great couple of days."

Meanwhile, PocketFivers continued their dominance in online play, winning seven
major online poker tournaments over the
weekend. The group was led by "tarheelkid," who won the Full Tilt Poker $750K
Guaranteed for $132,788. Ryan "gutshtallin" Welch took home $99,000 for his victory
in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up and "Beaver Fever" won the Stars "Sunday 500" for
$93K. Hungary's "breeth" earned a win in the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl for $72K, while
"jcada" took down the Sunday Mulligan for $50K. Kenny "Hixx" Hicks came out on top
in the Bodog $100K Guaranteed and walked away with $23,600. Ranked online tournament
specialist "chicagocards1" finished third in the PokerStars Sunday Million
for $84,000 to cap off an impressive showing over the weekend by PocketFives.com
members.

In the latest update of the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings, Shane
"shaniac" Schleger, a two-time winner of the PokerStars $200 Sunday rebuy
tournament, returned to the Rankings this week at #87. "Eisenhower1" of Sweden moved
up one spot to #10 worldwide and former #1 player "shaundeeb" moved up one spot to
#3. Carter "ckingusc" King won the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event recently and climbed
two spots to #14, while David "Bakes" Baker made the leap to #22. Australia's
"SEABEAST" won the PocketFives Triple Crown in October by winning three qualifying
tournaments on three different sites in a period of one week. Steve "stevoL" Leonard
of Australia was up five places to #48 and "Michnak" jumped 12 spots to #65. "The
Universe" and "JasonGray" entered the rankings at #89 and #94, respectively, and
"stpauli111" broke into the Rankings at #96.

Web Site: http://www.pocketfives.com/

Contact Details: Contact Information:

Maria Gomez

Senior Editor

Pocket Fives

City: Escazu
State: San Jose
Postal Code: 1250
Country: Costa Rica

Phone number: (506) 2289-6647

Website: www.pocketfives.com

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