| | | New site Poker Battle.com will launch in September. The site offers poker lifestyle content and teams up with huge poker pros like Chris Ferguson and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi among many others. The new community site named Poker Battle.com, has joined the growing international poker social networking scene. Poker Battle.com announced its arrival this week with different content like in-house multichannel video and audio and a market fashion line launching September 2008. The website which mainly focuses on events, will soft launch it’s website on the Partouche Poker Tour in Cannes, France, while the main launch is scheduled for the World Series of Poker Europe in London late September. The website offers a huge variety of ‘poker lifestyle’ content, original reality-based shows with poker players and celebrities, online radio, game shows, podcasts, fashions only available online, movies and sitcoms. Founder, the top French poker player and businessman Philippe Rouas, is currently readying the 'Poker Battle World Headquarters and Broadcast Studios' in Las Vegas. Rouas has joined venture with a number of well known online and land poker pros like Nenad Medic, Scotty Nguyen, Glen Chorny, Chris Ferguson, David Williams, Noah Schwartz, David "Chino" Rheem, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Rob Mizrachi, Eric Mizrachi, Evelyn Ng, Tiffany Michelle, Nam Le, Steve Song, Patryk Hildebranski, Johnny Chan, Jean Robert Bellande, Wayne and Emeline Boich, John Phan and Alan Smurfit, to promote the website. These players with the name "Poker Battle Warriors" will make sure that the website and its activities will be high profiled. Other grand plans from Rouas includes a high stakes, five event Poker Battle Pro Tour and the work is already in progress with the goal of a second quarter 2009 start in Las Vegas. The plans also include an award of hand-crafted platinum-and-precious-stones jewelry and a guaranteed winner’s price of $5 million to the winner of the main event. A new online site, Poukker.com invites poker fans to exchange stories and information through its online community, Twitter hybrid, at a quite lower, but still appealing level. The players post can be delivered to the entire network or just to specific friends by players choice.
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