Ontario Resident Wins Ultimate WrestleMania® XXIV Experience in Free Online Poker Game
Toronto, ON (PRWEB) March 20, 2008 -- Leading online poker site UltimateBet.net (http://www.ultimatebet.net) announced today the winner of the WWE® WrestleMania XXIV Free Online Poker tournament. The online poker player from Pickering, Ontario, with the moniker youngg17, won the March 2 winner-take-all match and secured the ultimate WWE WrestleMania XXIV prize package.
The prize package includes return airfare for two to Orlando, Florida; hotel accommodations; $500 spending money; premium floor seats to WrestleMania XXIV at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando; meet and greet with a WWE Superstar at Fan Axxess; exclusive tickets to WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony; brunch with WWE Superstars at Bacon, Bagels & Biceps Brunch; two Championship replica belts; two exclusive WrestleMania XXIV fold up chairs; and a framed WrestleMania XXIV poster.
On February 4, UltimateBet.net invited Texas Hold'em fans to sign up for a free account and enter a series of no-charge online poker qualifiers that led to the final March 2 Main Event. UltimateBet.net is a play-money online poker site that has become famous for offering players the chance to win free seats in the world's best poker tournaments.
The WWE WrestleMania 24 Free Online Poker tournament was open to residents of Canada only. This is the second poker experience this year offered at the free online poker site that has been targeted to Canadians. Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke, two of UltimateBet.net's biggest pros, are currently crisscrossing the country on the UltimateBet.net Cross Canada Tour with the goal of turning ordinary poker players into extraordinary poker champions. The tour kicked off in Toronto and planned stops include Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.
UltimateBet.net is the official Canadian sponsor of WrestleMania XXIV and the Wrestlemania Fan Axxess Tour - a cross-continent live experience where fans are invited to interact with the WWE's biggest Superstars, Divas and legends. WrestleMania XXIV will take place on March 30, 2008 in Orlando, Florida.
Additional information on this tournament can be found at www.ultimatebet.net/wwe.
Media Contact: Jo Priam, Public Relations Manager, UltimateBet.net / Ph: 416-786-1541
About UltimateBet.net
Designed with the assistance of the best poker players in the world - Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke - UltimateBet.net provides the best free poker games available on the net. Players can download the free poker software (http://www.ultimatebet.net/index.php?page=download), play in free ring games and tournaments and get tips from these pros to learn the sport or to enhance their playing strategy. UltimateBet.net currently has over 2 million registered players.
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