Abandon Mobile and g8wave Partner to Give Poker Fans a New Way to Stay Connected to the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.BOSTON -- Abandon Mobile and g8wave have partnered to leverage their respective experience in mobile gaming and mobile marketing to provide poker players and fans of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is an annual poker tournament held in the United States. It features 64 of the world's best poker players competing in a series of Heads-Up (one-on-one games of no limit hold'em) matches to determine who is the best face-to-face poker with a whole new way to stay connected to the tournament. Abandon Mobile and NBC Sports recently launched NBC Sports Heads-Up Poker NBC Sports Heads-Up Poker is a mobile game based on the National Heads-Up Poker Championship that was developed by SpiderMonk Entertainment and published by Abandon Mobile. , a mobile game available exclusively to consumers with BREW(R)-enabled mobile handsets. g8wave has created a series of premium SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. services that are being offered within the game. Fans who have downloaded the game can "text in" to play poker trivia, testing their knowledge of the game, its history and the players in the Heads-Up Tournament. They can also get helpful tips created by poker pros, sent right to their phones to help give them a winning edge and even find out results from the previous rounds to keep up to the minute on player advancements and eliminations. Fans can download NBC Sports Heads-Up Poker using their BREW phones. The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is scheduled to air nationwide on NBC Sports from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on May 7 and 14. All television coverage begins at noon EDT; the two-hour championship telecast will take place at 1:00 p.m. EDT on May 21. About Abandon Mobile Abandon Mobile is a mobile game developer and publisher formed by Abandon Entertainment, Inc. and GF Capital Management and Advisors, LLC. Recently, Abandon acquired Lucky Chicken Games Lucky Chicken Games is a video game developer founded in 1998 by Jamie Ottilie, Matt Saia and Jonnathan Hilliard. It was purchased by mobile game publisher Abandon Mobile in 2005 and became the production and development operation of the mobile game company. , a Malibu, Calif.-based game developer whose management team has over 50 years combined game development experience. In August 2005, Abandon Mobile entered into an exclusive worldwide partnership with NBC Sports to bring NBC Sports Branded games to mobile phones. In addition, Abandon invested into massively multiplayer role playing game See CRPG. developer and publisher, Mythic Entertainment and co-published the bestselling Dark Age of Camelot Dark Age of Camelot is a 3D medieval fantasy MMORPG that revolves around the war between three realms at the end of King Arthur's rule: Arthurian-inspired Albion, Norse mythology inspired Midgard, and Celtic Hibernia. and co-founded Collision Entertainment, a film development company, with producer Scott Faye. About g8wave g8wave ("gatewave" www.g8wave.com) is an integrated mobile media company with offices in Boston and London. g8wave is a world leader in the planning, creation, and execution of effective mobile marketing campaigns and content distribution strategies. The company is part of the Phoenix Media/Communications Group Phoenix Media/Communications Group is a Boston, Massachusetts corporation with several publishing and broadcasting interests. In addition to the Boston Phoenix, the Providence Phoenix and the Portland Phoenix . |
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