SOURCE: Marketwire

(San Francisco, California) — Ujogo, a leading free online poker site, today announces the first free poker application on Facebook® Platform to offer prizes and rewards combined with full Facebook Platform integration.

Ujogo has reconfigured its fast and slick application to seamlessly tap into the ultimate online network of users and fully leverage the Facebook Platform features.

With the new integration, users will now be able to play free, fun and highly competitive poker, including multi-table tournaments, for actual prizes in the fast and realistic Ujogo environment, without leaving the site.

In contrast, most free online poker applications do not offer prizes as an incentive, and consequently, the quality of play is generally not very high.

To showcase its free-to-enter multi-table tournaments within the Facebook Platform, Ujogo will feature a week of daily $100 prize tournaments within the next month.

"With the positive feedback we've received on our initial launch of Ujogo in July '07, it was just a natural evolution for us to extend our more compelling free poker application to one of the fastest growing, integrated social communities around," said Eric Gonzales, Ujogo's CEO.

"Our players appreciate how prizes at stake improve the quality and competitiveness of play in our free, non-gambling platform, and the popularity of interactive features at Ujogo.com made us realize that utilizing an online networking environment would be a natural fit."

Two time ladies' World Series of Poker champ Susie Isaacs plays regularly at Ujogo and commented:

"I became a devoted on-line poker player in 2004 and 2005 when I took two years off from playing live poker to write four books. I tried free sites but it was not rewarding."

"I play to win but I want to win more than accolades. Along came Ujogo and I was saved! Ujogo is a free site but we play for prizes, gift certificates, and eventually I have heard, buy-ins to major tournaments. When I win on Ujogo, I win! Risk versus reward is my old way of thinking. Today on Ujogo it is no risk and great rewards! The more I play, the more I realize that Ujogo is becoming like a social poker club. I like that!"

To start playing at Ujogo within Facebook Platform, simply search for "Ujogo," invite your friends to join if you wish, and jump into a game.

No additional registration is required since players are already registered on the site. All players receive a sign-up bonus of Ujogo Points, which can be redeemed for valuable items at the Ujogo Store.

Additional Ujogo Points are earned with every hand played, as well as for referring friends, achieving monthly leaderboard status, and hitting jackpot hands.

In addition, visit www.ujogo.com for more tournaments with even bigger prizes and one of the most feature-rich poker experiences available online, complete with a wide variety of educational and training tools, such as video tips from the pros and statistics to help players analyze their play.