More Than Just the Luck of the Irish!

More Than Just the Luck of the Irish!

October 01, 2007

-- James Wins Wii, Sports Car and US$52,000 Bad Beat
Jackpot in Just two Months at PartyPoker.Com!


    GIBRALTAR, Oct. 1 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 22-year-old
James McManus from Dublin, Ireland was the big winner of
PartyPoker.com's 'The Grind' promotion, winning a Mini
Cooper S Convertible in the prize draw, a Nintendo Wii when
he came sixth at the final table of a Grindroll, and, if
this wasn't enough, less than two months before he won
US$52,000 on the famous PartyPoker.com Bad Beat Jackpot!!

    James recently finished studying Maths at college and
intends to work in the finance industry or as a Maths
teacher but got a massive boost after winning the
equivalent of nearly US$100,000 in two months!

    "It has been a good couple of months," said
James with great understatement. "I didn't have many
debts but I've paid off all that I did have! I intend to
use some of the money to build a bankroll for online cash
games. I've thought about the tournament circuit a bit but
I would need a bigger bankroll and I'm happy where I am
now!"

    "I opted to take US$40,000 rather than the car. A
Mini Cooper S Convertible would be great but I don't really
have the need for it at the moment. I'm looking forward to
getting my Wii though. I also won the Bad Beat jackpot two
months ago. I had pocket queens and flopped quads, my
opponent had quad nines! They got US$104,000 and I got
US$52,000 and I won the hand! That was brilliant but to win
all of this in such a short period of time is
fantastic!"

    James acknowledged that his maths skills can come in
handy in his play but that he had just been on a very, very
good run. "It has been going great recently. I normally
play 2/4 or 3/6 no limit cash games and the odd tournament.
I intend to stick to the same stakes for the time being and
build on what I have."

    A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: "To bag a Wii,
win a sports car in a draw and pocket US$52,000 for
flopping quad queens in just two months almost beggars
belief, it is unprecedented. James is a great guy but it
almost seems that someone is out there looking out for
him!"

    'The Grind' promotion featured US$100,000 worth of
Grindrolls and ran until the 9th September 2007. To qualify
for Grindrolls, users had to earn at least 25 PartyPoints
per day over a three day period by playing on the site.
Once this was achieved they then qualified for the US$2,000
Grindroll. The more PartyPoints a player earned in a day,
the bigger Grindroll they were entered for. James managed
to 'Grind' for five days in each of the two weeks of the
promotion and was automatically entered into the prize draw
to win the Mini Cooper S Convertible. Other prizes won in
Grindrolls included 80 Nintendo Wii's and 120 80GB video
iPods.

    www.PartyPoker.com is a popular member of PartyGaming
Plc's (LSE: PRTY) growing suite of online games that
includes PartyCasino.com, PartyBingo.com, PartyBets.com,
PartyGammon.com, Gamebookers.com and EmpirePoker.com.


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     Warren Lush
     PartyGaming Plc
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