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Century Casinos Announces Polish Open 2008 Poker Tournament
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CenturyCasinos, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNTY; Vienna Stock Exchange) announced today that itssubsidiary Casinos Poland Ltd. will present the grand Polish Open 2008, afour-day Texas Hold'em No Limit tournament, hosted as part of the fifth EPTEuropean Poker Tour Season at its casino in the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw fromNovember 15 to November 19, 2008.
The tournament will be capped at 400 players who will play for a totalprize pool of up to PLN 8,000,000 or approx. $2,700,000. The buy-in for thetournament amounts to PLN 21,000 or approx. $7,000. According to the officialwebsite of the EPT a lot of stars are heading to Warsaw for the next stop onthe Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour. Among the top players set to competeat the four-day event are Team PokerStars Pros Gavin Griffin, the EPT GrandFinal winner in Season 4, EPT Player of the Year Luca Pagano, PCA ChampionBertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, William Thorson, Season 3 Warsaw finalist KatjaThater, EPT London finalist Marcin Horecki, Dario Minieri, Alex Kravchenko andIsabelle Mercier.
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, which kicked off Season 5 inBarcelona on September 10, 2008, is Europe's richest and most popular pokertour. Season 5 features 11 scheduled events. The EPT Grand Final will takeplace in Monte Carlo in April/May 2009. The upcoming EPT in Warsaw is thethird stop of the grand EPT Poker Tour in Poland hosted by Casinos Poland.
Century Casinos holds a 33.3% stake in Casinos Poland Ltd. since March2007. Casinos Poland is the market leader in Poland with a 50% share of thePolish casino market. The company owns and operates seven casinos ininternational four and five star hotels and one slot casino throughout Poland.
For further information about the Polish Open 2008 in Warsaw please visitthe website of Casinos Poland Ltd. under http://casinospoland.pl/en/index.php.
About Century Casinos, Inc.:
Century Casinos, Inc. is an international casino entertainment companythat owns and operates the Womacks Casino and Hotel in Cripple Creek,Colorado, the Century Casino & Hotel in Central City, Colorado, the CenturyCasino & Hotel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and the Century Casino Millenniumin the Marriott Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. The Company also operatescasinos aboard the Silver Cloud and the vessels of Oceania Cruises. Throughits subsidiary Century Casinos Africa (Pty) Limited, it owns and operates TheCaledon Hotel, Spa & Casino near Cape Town, South Africa, as well as 60% of,and provides technical casino services to, Century Casino Newcastle, inNewcastle, South Africa. Furthermore, the Company's Austrian subsidiary,Century Casinos Europe GmbH, holds a 33.3% ownership interest in CasinosPoland Ltd, the owner and operator of seven full casinos and one slot casinoin Poland. The Company continues to pursue other international projects invarious stages of development.
For more information about Century Casinos, visit our website athttp://www.centurycasinos.com. Century Casinos' common stock trades on TheNASDAQ Capital Market(R) and the Vienna Stock Exchange under the symbol CNTY.
This release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaningof the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements arebased on the beliefs and assumptions of the management of Century Casinosbased on information currently available to management. Such forward-lookingstatements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that couldcause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed orimplied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could causeactual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statementsinclude, among others, the risks described in the section entitled "RiskFactors" under Item 1A in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 17,2008. Century Casinos disclaims any obligation to revise or update anyforward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by it or on itsbehalf.
SOURCE Century Casinos, Inc.
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, which kicked off Season 5 inBarcelona on September 10, 2008, is Europe's richest and most popular pokertour. Season 5 features 11 scheduled events. The EPT Grand Final will takeplace in Monte Carlo in April/May 2009. The upcoming EPT in Warsaw is thethird stop of the grand EPT Poker Tour in Poland hosted by Casinos Poland.
Century Casinos holds a 33.3% stake in Casinos Poland Ltd. since March2007. Casinos Poland is the market leader in Poland with a 50% share of thePolish casino market. The company owns and operates seven casinos ininternational four and five star hotels and one slot casino throughout Poland.
For further information about the Polish Open 2008 in Warsaw please visitthe website of Casinos Poland Ltd. under http://casinospoland.pl/en/index.php.
About Century Casinos, Inc.:
Century Casinos, Inc. is an international casino entertainment companythat owns and operates the Womacks Casino and Hotel in Cripple Creek,Colorado, the Century Casino & Hotel in Central City, Colorado, the CenturyCasino & Hotel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and the Century Casino Millenniumin the Marriott Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. The Company also operatescasinos aboard the Silver Cloud and the vessels of Oceania Cruises. Throughits subsidiary Century Casinos Africa (Pty) Limited, it owns and operates TheCaledon Hotel, Spa & Casino near Cape Town, South Africa, as well as 60% of,and provides technical casino services to, Century Casino Newcastle, inNewcastle, South Africa. Furthermore, the Company's Austrian subsidiary,Century Casinos Europe GmbH, holds a 33.3% ownership interest in CasinosPoland Ltd, the owner and operator of seven full casinos and one slot casinoin Poland. The Company continues to pursue other international projects invarious stages of development.
For more information about Century Casinos, visit our website athttp://www.centurycasinos.com. Century Casinos' common stock trades on TheNASDAQ Capital Market(R) and the Vienna Stock Exchange under the symbol CNTY.
This release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaningof the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements arebased on the beliefs and assumptions of the management of Century Casinosbased on information currently available to management. Such forward-lookingstatements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that couldcause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed orimplied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could causeactual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statementsinclude, among others, the risks described in the section entitled "RiskFactors" under Item 1A in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 17,2008. Century Casinos disclaims any obligation to revise or update anyforward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by it or on itsbehalf.
SOURCE Century Casinos, Inc.
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