Now You Can Play <i>Free</i> Poker at CardPlayer.com and Win a $25K Seat in the WPT Bellagio event

I am delighted to announce that CardPlayer.com now offers you yet another online feature to enhance your poker-playing pleasure: a place where you can play without having to pay. Now you have a lovely site to go to that offers play money games, in which you can hone your skills prior to playing in a casino or with real money.

CardPlayer.com has launched CardPlayerPoker – an online poker room where you play for free but win for real. We give you play money with which to play, and if you lose it, we will give you some more.

There are sections that deal specifically with beginning strategy and the rules of the games and tournaments. It is a great place to become comfortable with poker.

I am sure I am not the only person who played poker often in college yet never played Texas hold'em, let alone a poker tournament. I didn't even know tournaments existed.

Even though your cost is nothing – actually, you must subscribe to our free newsletter – we will give you rewards just for playing. You don't even have to be good or win. In those now famous words of '80s power-rock band Dire Straits: "It's money for nothing … "

Our friends at UltimateBet.com are hosting CardPlayerPoker. Every 90 minutes, a jackpot for the highest hand held by a hold'em player during that period is awarded, and CardPlayerPoker players are included.

Additionally, just for playing, you will earn one UltimatePoint™ for every hour you play. These points can be used to purchase any number of great things. One of their niftiest uses is for entering tournaments that can leverage you up to bigger things – up to and including a $25,000 buy-in to the championship event of the 2003-04 season of the World Poker Tour, which will be held at Bellagio in Las Vegas.

For more information on CardPlayerPoker, visit www.CardPlayer.com and click on the CardPlayerPoker icon.