Breaking News: Ladbrokespoker.com Official Sponsors of Team Europe
Posted by: editor on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 05:10 PM EST

Ladbrokespoker.com Official Sponsors of Team Europe Matchroom Sport can announce that Ladbrokespoker.com, Europe's busiest o­nline poker sites, has become the Official Sponsor of Team Europe at the 2003 Mosconi Cup. Ladbrokespoker.com will be at the MGM Grand in full force to support the team and all Team Europe members will be wearing  Ladbrokespoker.com logo o­n their pool shirts. Commented Matchroom Sport Chairman Barry Hearn, "It would be great to see the Europeans defend their trophy, but it will be a mammoth task. The players, though, are delighted to be working with Ladbrokespoker.com and will be giving it 110% in their quest." Team Europe this year consists of Oliver Ortmann as non-playing captain, Steve Davis of England, Marcus Chamat of Sweden, Nick Van Den Berg of Holland, Mika Immonen of Finland, Ralf Souquet of Germany, and current WPA World Champion Thorsten Hohmann also of Germany. "Being the team sponsors of the Europeans is a great opportunity to support a fantastic set of players and the get the Ladbrokespoker.com name out to the huge numbers of people watching the Mosconi Cup o­n TV around the world," commented Ladbrokespoker.com spokesman Colin Cole-Johnson. "We are bringing plenty of guests to Las Vegas and we will all be backing the lads to bring back the trophy." About Ladbrokespoker.com Ladbrokespoker.com is part of Ladbrokes, the betting and gaming division of Hilton Group plc and the world's biggest bookmaker.  Europe's busiest Multi-Player Poker site is growing fast - currently as many as 5,000 players are o­nline at 350 tables every day - and deals more than 170,000 hands a day, with over £3.0m won in pots daily. Ladbrokes operates the biggest Poker room in Europe - offline or o­nline. Unlike all other Poker rooms, Ladbrokes does not allow US players to play. Americans are the best players in the world, a fact that explains the popularity of Ladbrokes. Over 1 million registered customers from 160 countries bet o­n the Internet with Ladbrokes at www.ladbrokes.com in 14 different languages, at the o­nline casino www.ladbrokescasino.com and at the o­nline poker site www.ladbrokespoker.com   Visit InsidePOOL for the latest from the sport of billiards and pool.