GIBRALTAR, June 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Before being in the professionalpoker world, Claire Renaut was an actress, a model and a movie script writer(her first long feature movie is to be released in July 2010 in France, "Jevous aime tres beaucoup" - http://www.jevousaimetresbeaucoup.com/). Whiletaking part in the first edition of "Poker Academy Vegas", a show on NRJ12,she discovered a fascinating poker scene and decided to play pokerprofessionally.

Shortly after she began her professional poker career, she startedwriting articles for one of the biggest French poker websites:http://www.madeinpoker.com and soon became one of the most popularjournalists in France. In 2009, she also wrote and hosted "Las Vegas PokerShow", a TV show about the WSOP on RTL9.

Beginning in 2010, after two years of hard work and training side by sidewith the greatest poker players in the world, and while still writing forMadeInPoker and her blog Viedefish (one of the most read poker blogs inFrance - http://viedefish.wordpress.com/), she decided to start playing livepoker tournaments.

In Claire's short time playing live poker tournaments, her results haveproved her to be a success. Her live tournament wins include; 24e at theFrance Poker Tour, 1st place at the Ladies Irish Open, Runner-up at theLadies EPT Monte Carlo and 5th place at the Women's World Open.

Claire's global popularity and success at the tables has not goneunnoticed! 888poker has grabbed the opportunity and is excited to announce asigned endorsement deal with the young star. Claire Renaut will be the newestambassador of Team 888poker and will join the company of legendary cricketer,Shane Warne and "Last woman standing WSOP2009", Leo Margets.

As a new 888poker ambassador, Claire can be seen representing Team888poker in tournaments around the world, including this year's World Seriesof Poker.

Signing Claire Renaut as an ambassador for Team 888poker signifies one ofthe many exciting changes that 888poker is bringing to the internationalpoker scene. In addition to our new ambassador, 888poker will also belaunching new software and several additional entertainment features andpromotions throughout the rest of 2010.

For more information about 888poker and upcoming features and promotions,please go to http://www.888poker.com.

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