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DELRAY BEACH, Florida, November 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Poker Extravaganza Comes to Toronto This Weekend

Shuffle up and deal! Canada's ONLY Poker Lifestyle Show takes centre stage this weekend at the Toronto Congress Centre, and Poker Pro Magazine - the exclusive magazine sponsor of the show - is a big part of it. Thousands of people from across North America will have their poker face on as they get set to take in 33,000 square feet of interactive displays and poker entertainment. It's the hottest ticket in town for the hottest game around. This is everything poker!

Attendees will have the chance to meet and talk strategy with some of the world's best Full Tilt Poker Pros, talk shop with staffers from Poker Pro Magazine, win a seat into the 2010 World Series of Poker, take part in a poker boot camp, win a number of great prizes and participate in the largest "LIVE" freeroll in Canada. There will also be several interactive zones, a WSOP Training Academy and, for the women, the High Heels Poker Tour.

Toronto native Derrick Oliver Dewan, a two-time Canadian dart champion who also represented Canada at the World Heads-Up Poker Championship in Barcelona, is now part of the Poker Pro Media family and will be at the Poker Pro booth and display greeting readers and advertisers.

Whether it's poker training or poker equipment, poker forums or poker magazines, or just the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the game's great players, the Canadian Poker Expo will have it all.

The show runs Saturday from 10 to 8 and Sunday from 10 to 6. For media requests and interviews, please contact James Hayes, Canadian Poker Expo; james@canadianpokerexpo.com; +1-519-913-1757; +1-519-494-2424 (cell).

Poker Pro Media, parent company of Poker Pro, Online Poker Pro and Poker Pro Europe magazines, was established in 2004 and now has seven titles worldwide that every month bring readers up to speed on the major happenings in the poker world. As an industry leader, the Poker Pro Media family of publications provides readers with an entertaining and informative mix of poker-related news, pro profiles, event reports and strategies. Visit Poker Pro at PokerProMagazine.com. For advertising inquiries, please contact Gary Softin at gsoftin@pokerpromedia.com.

SOURCE Poker Pro Media