ABCNEWS.com Deals a Royal Flush With Chris Wallace's Revealing Look Behind the Game of High Stakes Gambling.

Entertainment Editors

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2001

Fifth installment of the Internet-only series,

"Chris Wallace's Internet Expose:

Poker Kings - Life at the High-Stakes Table,"

live TODAY, Thursday, February 8 on ABCNEWS.com

www.internetexpose.com

Learn from the experts how to win at one of the riskiest and most exciting card games played - poker. Much more than a card game, poker is a life-style, and the fifth installment of ABCNEWS.com's Internet -only series, "Chris Wallace's Internet Expose," delves into the world of high-stakes poker, introducing users to the legends and prodigies of this dicey diversion.

"Chris Wallace's Internet Expose: Poker Kings - Life at the High Stakes Table" premieres today, Thursday, February 8. The Webcast will be archived so users can view it on demand.

As part of the expose, Wallace spoke with poker experts, including 72 year-old legend Amarillo Slim, and Phil Hellmuth, the youngest winner ever of the World Series of Poker. During the Webcast, these two kings of poker offer tricks of the trade, tips on spotting bluffs and ways to know what cards someone is holding. Slim talks about past wagers, like the time he bet $50,000 that a fly would land on a particular sugar cube or the time he claims that Pablo Escobar kidnapped him. Hellmuth discusses how he got stuck with the nickname "the poker brat" since winning the World Series of Poker at age 24.

This interactive Webcast on ABCNEWS.com is the fifth installment of a regularly scheduled series and is accompanied by an interactive poker game, culture quiz, timeline, poker terminology, ballots, tips on the game of poker, and links to related sites. ABCNEWS.com users can chat with guest Phil Hellmuth today at 2:00 PM ET.

Amarillo Slim's quotes from the Webcast:

-- "A person doesn't require physical attributes to be a good poker player...
and he'll bombard his fanny behind a big mountain of chips and he feels like
Tarzan. Of course I'll end up making Jane out of him."

-- "They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darndest not to
disappoint one of them."

-- "Poker is a game of people. My poker is a game of people. It's not the hand
I hold, it's the people that I play with."

-- "Delete the element of bluff and there's nothing to poker. They deal me 5000
hands without a wager we figure to break dead even."

-- (Advice on how to win at poker) - "I'd suggest they get `em a chauffeurs
license and go to driving a dump truck, they'd be a lot more successful. We
don't have any games in Nevada that you can win at. If you could win at it, it
wouldn't be in there."

The Webcast was executive produced by Ira Rosen, executive producer for ABC News Magazine Webcasts; senior technical producer, Erik Olsen; video producer and editor, Brian Celentano; operations producer, Andrea Owen; assistant producer, Chris Fennimore; and designer, Patricia O'Brien. Steve Jones is executive producer of ABCNEWS.com

In the most recent Webcast, "UFO2000," Wallace presented controversial new information about the existence of UFOs. In prior segments, Wallace has interviewed a "cyberhooker" who runs an online prostitution company, Nicky "The Crow" Caramandi, a former hitman for the Philadelphia mob who went into the Federal Witness Protection program, and Antonio Mendez, former Chief of Disguise in the CIA. All Webcasts can be viewed on demand at the ABCNEWS.com archives.

Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG) manages many of the most popular web sites and services, including Disney.com, the number one Web site for kids and families; ESPN.com, the leading sports site; ABC.com, the leading broadcast network site; and ABCNEWS.com, one of the leading news sites. Additional properties include Family.com, Mr.Showbiz, Movies.com, Wall of Sound, DisneyAuctions.com, DisneyStore.com, DisneyVacations.com, Soccernet.com and NFL.com. Walt Disney Internet Group also produces Enhanced TV telecasts in conjunction with select ABC Television and ESPN programming and includes the catalog operations of The Walt Disney Company and 19 Disney-branded international properties. Steve Bornstein is the chairman of Walt Disney Internet Group, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, CA, and has operations in Bristol, CT; Seattle; New York; and London.