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Crave Entertainment Signs 7 Top Poker Pros to Exclusive Deals for World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer for Xbox(R), PlayStation(R)2, and the PSP(TM) System.


LOS ANGELES -- Exclusive Character Likenesses of the World's Top Poker Players Let's You Truly Play With the Pros

Crave Entertainment, a leading publisher of console videogames, today announced that they have signed 7 top poker professionals, including Howard Lederer, Greg Raymer, Clonie Gowen, Amir Vahidi, Paul Darden, Robert Williamson III Robert Williamson III (born 7 November 1970) is an American professional poker player from Dallas, Texas.

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, and tournament director Matt Savage to exclusive agreements so that their character likenesses, play styles and iconic signature personality traits can be incorporated into World Championship Poker World Championship Poker is a series of poker video games first developed by Coresoft and released in 2005 by Crave Entertainment. The series capitalizes on the recent popularity of poker due to the successful World Series of Poker.  2: Featuring Howard Lederer. Howard's sister, womens' champion Annie Duke, is also featured in the game. World Championship Poker 2, the follow up to one of the best selling titles for the first half of 2005, will be available for the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, PSP (PlayStation Portable) See PlayStation. (TM) (PlayStation(R)Portable) system and Xbox video game and entertainment system from Microsoft with an MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
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Developed by Point of View, World Championship Poker 2 features a much more detailed one player game, where you now have to work your way up the ranks, starting in your mom's basement. Once you start winning and accumulating money, you can spend your winnings on increasingly better pads, and furnishings. Hit a losing streak A Losing Streak is the third episode of series 2 of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses. It was first broadcast on 4 November 1982. Synopsis
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About Crave Entertainment

Based in Los Angeles, California, Crave Entertainment is a privately held publisher of videogame entertainment products. Crave produces games for the major console platforms including Game Boy(R) Advance, Nintendo GameCube(TM), the PlayStation(R) game console, PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft, and for the PC. For more information about Crave Entertainment, please visit http://www.cravegames.com.

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