Online poker and sports have been making fantastic bedfellows for a long time now, and one of the poker sites spearheading that union is Poker Stars.
Poker Stars has just announced that it will be sponsoring the Federación Española de Baloncesto (FEB), otherwise known as the Spanish Basketball Federation for at least one year’s time.
As part of its sponsorship, Poker Stars will start offering satellite tournaments that award as their top prizes tickets to various Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) games, including the 2010 FIBA World Championship that begins August 28 in Turkey where Spain’s basketball team, which currently holds the 3rd place ranking beneath the U.S. and Argentina, will face off against those top rivals as well as Canada, France, Lebanon, Lithuania and New Zealand, the five other teams with whom the Spanish team shares Group D.
Among the satellite tournaments awarding tickets to watch key FEB basketball games will be plenty of freeroll tournaments.
PokerStars sponsors many sporting events and hosts satellites awarding tickets to events across various sports. There are also many individual athletes on Team PokerStars, including tennis star Gaël Monfils, football goalkeeper Gianluigi ‘Gigi’ Buffon, field hockey legend Fatima Moreira de Melo, and rugby player Sebastian Chabal.
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Wed, Jun 23, 2010
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