PokerRoom.com Proposes NHL Lockout Solution

TORONTO, Ontario (PRESS RELEASE) -- In an effort to find a solution to salvage the
2004/2005 NHL hockey season PokerRoom.com, one of the world's largest online
poker gaming sites, has today delivered registered letters to NHL
commissioner, Gary Bettman's New York office and NHL Players' Association
(NHLPA) executive director Bob Goodenow's Toronto office, inviting them to
settle the longstanding labour dispute like men - in a game of winner-take-all
poker on PokerRoom.com

In the spirit of their respective bargaining positions, the two-stage
online tournament will feature a game of limit Texas Hold'em poker with a cap
of four raises, followed by a heads-up, one-on-one game of no-limit Texas
Hold'em. The first player to capture all his opponent's chips wins the
challenge and the season is saved. Game on! Are Mr. Bettman and Mr. Goodenow
truly prepared to end this conflict and save the season?

"Hockey fans in North America have had enough of the current high-stakes
game of brinkmanship that led to and continues to disrupt the 2004-2005 NHL
hockey season," says Patrik Selin, casino boss, PokerRoom.com. "If they can't
resolve this dispute through traditional negotiations and compromise, then the
PokerRoom.com tournament offers them the best, and quickest, way to declare a
winner and let the fans enjoy hockey again before it's too late. With no
downloads required to play and the tournament hosted on-line, Mr. Bettman and
Mr. Goodenow can easily take on the challenge from their respective offices in
New York and Toronto."

If Mr. Bettman and Mr. Goodenow decide not to accept this challenge, and
the season is lost, PokerRoom.com invites hockey fans across the country to
participate in the next best thing: PokerRoom Night in Canada online
t"ournaments. A perfect replacement to fill the Saturday night void, these
tournaments run every Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. EST until February 19, with
a final tournament on February 26. The winner of the weekly PokerRoom Night in
Canada tournaments will receive a ticket which entitles them to a seat in the
PokerRoom Night in Canada Play-off Final on the 26th. This final tournament
will be hosted as a single table, winner-takes-all-tournament, where the lucky
player wins an all-expense paid trip to Sweden to see popular NHL stars
actually play a game of hockey.