2nd Feb 2006 10:00
ADVFN PLC02 February 2006 News Release February 2, 2006 Financial website holds all the aces with launch of the ADVFN Poker club - stocks and shares specialist branches out into e-gaming arena - ADVFN (www.advfn.com) has launched an online poker room for the tradingcommunity. The ADVFN Poker club aims to satisfy the large levels of interest for pokeramongst the ADVFN user base and enables players to take part in Texas Hold'em,Omaha, Stud and one-on-one poker and play on single tables, compete intournaments and gamble with both real and play money. Users can take part inlimit and no-limit betting and select tables according to stake size, whichranges from 25c to $400. The ADVFN Poker club boasts daily guaranteed tournament prize pools, free rolltournaments - a free-to-enter tournament accessed using customer loyalty pointsgained through playing in the ADVFN Poker club - and a major end-of-monthtournament. The site is offering a 100% match up bonus (up to £50) for first deposits andusers also benefit from: • A real-time chat facility • Tables for six or 10 players • Full player statistics To get started users can either go to the 'ADVFN Poker club' option within the 'ADVFN services' drop down menu, click on various promotional links or godirectly to: www.advfnpoker.com to download the poker application. "As an innovative media company ADVFN is always open to exploring differentcontent formats and widening its appeal. We believe that the continued stronginterest in poker from our user base, traders and the ever-increasing internetcommunity presents a good opportunity," said Clem Chambers, CEO of ADVFN. "Thecoupling of ADVFN's experience of growing websites and Inside Gaming'smanagerial know-how makes the ADVFN Poker club an exciting prospect." Chris North, CEO of Inside Gaming, the company behind the ADVFN Poker clubcommented: "We are delighted to be teaming up with ADVFN to offer our leadingpoker product. We have worked closely together to ensure that ADVFN players getexceptional benefits and a great tournament schedule. Our poker network has gonefrom strength-to-strength of late and the ADVFN deal will be a significant booston top of this." - Ends - NOTES TO EDITORS About ADVFN ADVFN (www.advfn.com) is Europe's number one stocks and shares Web site. Withfull real-time coverage of the London Stock Exchange, the euronext-liffe, OFEX,NASDAQ, Amex and NYSE, including FTSE, Dow and S&P indices, ADVFN providesprofessional quality information to the person on the street. ADVFN was established in the last quarter of 1999 and floated on AIM in March2000. It now has over 650,000 registered users who generate in excess of 38million page impressions a month. We currently cover the following areas in the UK, France and America: •Free real-time prices from the London Stock Exchange •EURONEXT-LIFFE •EURONEXT - Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam •NASDAQ •NYSE •AMEX •CBOT •OFEX •FOREX •GTIS FOREX •NYMEX •COMEX •Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) •Kansas Board of Trade •OneChicago •Russian stocks and indices •Canadian stocks, indices, options and derivatives •German stocks and indices - Xetra •Australian Stock Exchange •Fukuoka Stock Exchange •Sapporo Stock Exchange •Tokyo Stock Exchange •Irish stocks and indices •Mexican Exchange •Chilean Exchange •Greek stocks and indices •Singapore stocks and indices •Helsinki Stock Exchange •Stockholm Stock Exchange •Copenhagen Stock Exchange •Warsaw Stock Exchange •Swiss Indices •Johannesburg Stock Exchange and indices •Level 2 data •NASDAQ TotalViewSM data •Comprehensive fundamental data •Streaming stock charts, historic and intraday •CREST stock loan data •Portfolios •RNS and AFX news •UK's busiest financial bulletin boards •Historical data downloads •Stock monitors and filters •Covered Warrants •Trading signals •Investor Relations Web site solutions •PDA service •SMS stock quote service •Headlines - news headline and archive search For further press information, please contact: Francesca De Franco on 020 70700932 E-mail [email protected] About Inside Gaming Located in London, UK, Inside Gaming is looking to become one of the UK'sleading managed serviced providers with a number of high profile partnerships tobe announced in the coming weeks. Inside Gaming consultants all have experience with strong operating e-gamingventures giving us a unique perspective on our client's business. Additionally,Inside Gaming also offers a full consultancy service to both existing and newentrants to the online gaming market place. For more information seewww.insidegaming.co.uk. More info at: www.insidegaming.co.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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