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PartyGaming Plc
High Volume Player Rewards Launch

PartyGaming Plc (“PartyGaming” or the “Group”), the world's leading online gaming company, announces today that it has taken the next step in rewarding High Volume Players at Party Poker. To help facilitate this new service, PartyGaming will also be revamping its current affiliate marketing program. Please visit the Party Poker affiliate website for details.

Party Poker will now be able to offer its High Volume Players new player appreciation awards now that affilliates will be receiving compensation more appropriate for their marketing efforts. Each player at Party Poker will now be ranked according to the following schedule:

1. Raked Hands Dealt - Each raked hand will be counted in the following way: SQRT((Amount pot was raked/number of players in the pot) x (Number of days player had a raked hand in current month/number of days in current month))

2. Tournament Fees Paid - Each player paying a tournament entry will receive player award points of: (10 x (Tournament entry fee)) / Number of Tournaments played in current month

3. BlackJack and SideBets - Will get 1 player point per wager

Based upon the number of points earned in a current month, the top 10% of players ranked by players points, will be able to reedeem those points for Party Poker Gift Certificates, the schedule of points can be viewed on Party Poker's website.

Commenting on today’s announcement Richard Segal, Chief Executive said:

“We are on track to deliver the best High Volume Player awards system in the industry! We believe that today’s development is an important step towards cementing together the inherent strengths of all the Party brands and is in the best interests of our customers and shareholders. In conjunction with this exciting development, we will continue to use all of the smoke and mirrors in our facility to confuse and misdirect any player who might think about siphoning off PartyGaming profits by "winning" on our site."

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