Players Network Partners With National League of Poker to Create Private Branded Online Poker Site

LAS VEGAS, NV--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 12, 2009 -- Players Network (OTC BB:PNTV.OB - News), the leading Digital Media 3-Screen Network dedicated to Las Vegas Entertainment and the Gaming Lifestyle, announces today that it has partnered with The National League of Poker (www.NLOP.com) to create a Players Network branded online poker site that will allow members to legally play online poker for free with the chance to win over $50,000 a month in Cash and Prizes.

Players Network will receive a percentage of all ad space on the site, a monthly fee for each player that plays for free, and a significant percentage of the subscription revenue for each player that joins the VIP area of the site, paying for premium content and services. Players Network will also have access to everyone in its registration database.

"I play on the NLOP poker site and it definitely satisfies my desire to play competitive, legal online poker against other players from around the world without risking my money, while still getting the rush and having the ability to actually win money," says Michael Berk, Players Network's President of Programming. "NLOP's graphics and player-friendly environment makes it the ideal free/subscription poker technology for us to offer consumers under the Players Network brand. NLOP has an interactive social network for poker players, and provides the perfect demographic for Players Network to market our services to. With our unparalleled ability to run ads for 'Players Network's Poker Club' on our proprietary programming in over 22 million TV homes in the US, 121 million TV homes in Europe, and on our Broadband and Mobile platforms, Players Network has the ability to reach more potential members than any other poker site out there."

About Players Network

Players Network is a Digital Media Company that focuses on the Las Vegas and Gaming Lifestyles, producing and distributing original content for its own VOD Channels on television in over 22,000,000 homes, for its Broadband Network at www.playersnetwork.com, Blinkx, Google, YouTube and Yahoo Video, for DVD Home Video, mobile platforms, and through worldwide television syndication. Players Network has a 10-year history of providing consumers with quality Gaming and Las Vegas Lifestyle content, and the gaming industry with strategic partnership services in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and throughout the worldwide Gaming Industry.

About NLOP

NLOP(TM) offers a direct-to-consumer rewards-based poker portal through www.nlop.com. The National League of Poker (www.nlop.com) is the leading social gaming platform for free, U.S.-legal online poker. NLOP(TM) allows players to win cash and prizes hourly, daily and weekly with no financial risk -- players never lose money. NLOP(TM) has a desirable demographic of highly engaged players with an average user session of 67 minutes and delivers over 35 million minutes of poker play per month. NLOP(TM) was previously a division of Power Play Development. For more information, visit http://www.nlop.com.

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