Bodog Awards More WSOP Seats
May 28, 2009 | Comments Off
COSTA RICA (PRESS RELEASE) – Only one tournament can guarantee you poker immortality, and only one online poker site is making it easier than ever to get there. The World Series of Poker* Main Event, the richest and most prestigious tournament in poker, is just weeks away, and online poker powerhouse Bodog.com continues to offer online poker players the cheapest and easiest path to winning a seat. The next two Sundays alone, Bodog.com is guaranteeing eight $12,000 Main Event prize packages, with qualifiers running daily for as little as a $1!
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“The Main Event is the one tournament we all dream about winning, and the simplest and easiest way to make that dream come true is here at Bodog.com,” says Bodog Poker Pro Jean-Robert Bellande. “We already have a great group of qualifiers who will be joining myself, David Williams, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo for this year’s Main Event, and we’re anxious to qualify even more at Bodog.com over the next two Sundays.”
The next shot for players to win a seat at the World Series Main Event is this Sunday, May 31, at 4:35pm EST, where, regardless of how many players enter, four players are guaranteed to walk away with a $12,000 Main Event prize package. Then on Sunday, June 7, at 4:35pm EST, four more guaranteed prize packages are up for grabs.
Players can start down their path to poker immortality with Bodog.com’s online Main Event qualifiers for as a little as $1, or 100 Bodog Poker Points (PTS). Bodog.com’s simple and easy tournament structures suit every budget and style. Players can earn their seats through Cheap Seats qualifiers, Sit & Gos, Last Chance qualifiers, Bodog Poker Points, or via a straight buy-in into the Semi Final events on May 31 and June 7.
Bodog.com’s coveted World Series Main Event prize packages include much more than a seat to the Main Event. In addition to the $10,000 buy-in, Team Bodog players also receive $2,000 for travel to and accommodation in Las Vegas, a stylish Bodog gear bag worth $400+, and access to VIP events and player’s club evenings. Bodog.com players will also have their progress reported in the World Series section on the Bodog Beat and have dedicated team handlers on-site to ensure their needs are met as they focus on the action at the tables.
In addition to playing for riches and fame, Team Bodog players will rub elbows with Bodog.com Poker Pros David Williams, Justin Bonomo, Jean-Robert Bellande and Evelyn Ng as they seek to bring home a bracelet for Team Bodog. Last year, Bodog.com Poker Pros and qualifiers walked away with a combined total of $1,629,767 in winnings from the World Series in Las Vegas. Poker fans not lucky enough to be in Las Vegas with Team Bodog can at least feel like they are there by following the action via Twitter. All Bodog.com Poker Pros will have their Twitter feeds hosted on Bodog.com’s World Series page, and Bodog will also be on the ground tweeting from Las Vegas to keep poker fans in-the-know all summer long.
Spotlight on Bodog Poker Pros
August 1, 2008 | 1 Comment
St. Johns, Antigua (PRWEB) July 31, 2008 — From the moment the first cards were dealt at the 2008 World Series of Poker* to the final days of the Main Event, Team Bodog enjoyed a terrific run this summer in Las Vegas. And tonight, poker fans will be able to see one of Bodog’s very own capture the ultimate prize, a WSOP* bracelet, when ESPN airs its coverage of Event No. 2 ($1,500 buy-in No Limit Holdem). The two-hour, final table coverage begins at 8 p.m. ET.
During tonight’s ESPN broadcast, viewers will witness Team Bodog player Grant Hinkle, a 27-year-old marketing manager from Kansas City, Mo., bust a talented final table featuring poker legend Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, young gun Theo Tran and tournament ace David Bach. Along with his impressive victory in an event that drew 3,929 players, the largest non-Main Event field in WSOP* history, Hinkle took home a life-changing $831,462.
Hinkle’s early bracelet win proved to be momentous for Team Bodog. Just a day later, the team was back in the spotlight with Bodog pros David Williams and Justin Bonomo seated side by side at the final table for Event No. 4 ($5,000 buy-in Mixed Holdem). With an all-pro final nine, including 2008 WSOP* Player of the Year Erick Lindgren, this will be one to watch when it airs on ESPN on Tuesday, Aug. 5, at 8 p.m. ET.
Like Williams and Bonomo, Team Bodog pros Jean-Robert Bellande and Evelyn Ng also found great success at the tables this summer. In the final tournament before the Main Event, Bellande racked up a second place finish to pocket $173,564 and Ng saw herself cashing in two events this summer including an impressive deep run in the Main Event. All together, Team Bodog pros and qualifiers walked away with a combined total of $1,629,767 in winnings from the World Series in Las Vegas.
“We are extremely proud of our Team Bodog pros and qualifiers for their successes at this year’s World Series,” said Morris Mohawk Gaming Group CEO Alwyn Morris. “The WSOP* has been very good to Bodog players for several years now, including a Main Event win in 2006 and a number of bracelet titles. We expect to see even more success at the WSOP Europe this September and across the globe at WPT, EPT and APT events throughout the year.”
Regardless of how they fared at the tables, no Team BodogPoker qualifer walked away empty-handed as everyone donning the black and red of Bodog was treated to an unparalleled VIP experience the moment they touched down in Las Vegas. From an exclusive party at The Palms Hardwood Fantasy Suite filled to the rim with Bodog Girls to private helicopter excursions to the Grand Canyon and an adrenaline-filled day at the racetrack driving high-performance Corvettes, Bodog’s WSOP qualifiers experienced Las Vegas like no one else – in total Bodog style.
The World Series in Las Vegas is just one of a number of tournaments held around the world that poker players can win seats to for as little as $1 at Bodog every week. From the Asian Poker Tour in Macau this August, to the WSOP Europe in London this September and WPT events across North America, Bodog’s Player’s Choice packages give winners the chance to compete for millions of dollars while experiencing some of the most exciting and exotic locations in the world as only Team Bodog members do.
Qualify at Bodog for Asian Poker Tour Event in Macau
July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments
St. Johns, Antigua (PRWEB) July 25, 2008 — BodogPoker is once again giving its online poker players the chance to freeroll their way to poker stardom and riches while traveling to exotic locations in total Bodog style. The Asian Poker Tour event in Macau, held Aug. 26-31, is guaranteeing $1.5 million in prize money, and Bodog Poker is now running freeroll qualifier tournaments where the winner receives entry to the APT Macau plus an all-expenses paid trip to the exciting gaming destination situated along the Pearl River Delta in China.
The freeroll tournaments are scheduled four times daily throughout the month of July. The top 25 finishers per qualifier move onto the APT Macau Seat Giveaway Finale on Saturday, Aug. 2, with the top prize being an $8,000 prize package that includes the event’s $5,300 buy-in, round trip flight, spending money and a six-night stay at the luxurious Galaxy StarWorld Hotel & Casino located in the heart of Macau.
“With the World Series in Las Vegas all but over, it is time for online poker players to head east–the Far East that is–for a shot at scoring big, and Bodog Poker is excited to give players the chance to win their way into this major tournament without spending a dime,” said Morris Mohawk Gaming Group CEO Alwyn Morris. “We’re sending a team of players to the APT Macau in total Bodog style and one of them will be freerolling their way there to compete for a share of its $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool.”
In addition to the APT Macau Seat Giveaway freeroll qualifiers, online poker players can also play for one of three $8,000 APT Macau VIP Prize Packages that Bodog is awarding in qualifiers held through Aug. 3. Players can work their way up from the “cheap seats,” build tournament credits for other qualifiers, blast through a Turbo Quarterfinal or two, or skip the line and buy directly into one of the $300 + $20 buy-in Semifinal events held over the next three Sundays at 3:15 p.m.
The APT Macau is just one of a number of tournaments held around the world that poker players can qualify for through Bodog every week. From the World Series event in London this September to tournaments across Europe, Asia and North America, Bodog’s Player’s Choice packages give winners the chance to compete for millions of dollars while experiencing some of the most exciting and exotic locations in the world as only Team Bodog members do.
Bodog now Offering Prop Bets on WSOP Final Table
July 24, 2008 | Comments Off
Now that the 2008 WSOP has wrapped up and the “November Nine” are set, the endless debates as to who will win the $9.1 million first-place prize at the two-day final table have begun, and BodogPoker is giving you a chance to put your money where your mouth is and get in on the action by offering a prop bet on the WSOP final table.
Leading the way at the November final table with 26.2 million in chips is the amatuer poker player from Illinois, Dennis Phillips, and Bodog is giving him 3 to 1 odds that he can take it down. Less than 2 million in chips behind Phillips is Muscovite Ivan Demidov (24.4 million), who is also sitting at 3 to 1 odds as he’s just a pot or two out of the chip lead.
Next up is Canadian poker player Scott Montgomery and his 19.7 million chip stack. Due to his recent final table appearance at the WPT LA Poker Classic and the fact that he is one of the most experienced players at the final table, which unfortunately isn’t saying much, his odds are currently running at 4 to 1. Montgomery is followed by Danish poker player Peter Eastgate, who will start with 18.3 million in chips and odds of 11 to 2 that he can overtake the top three spots to win.
The next two WSOP final tablists have almost identical chip stacks but different experience levels when it comes to poker, leading to slightly different odds on their expected success. Ylon Schwartz only has a 5,000 chip lead over Darus Suharto but the odds for the two are 8 to 1 and 17 to 2, respectively; mainly because Schwartz is a known veteran of the Brooklyn poker scene while Suharto is an unknown player with very limited live poker success, up until now.
Toward the bottom of the posted odds is the most experienced player at the final table, David “Chino” Rheem. Unfortunately, despite his live tournament success, his short chip stack of 10.2 million leaves him with a lot of work to do and a 19 to 2 chance of getting that work done. Below him is Craig Marquis whose odds sit just a little above Chino’s at 10 to 1. The shortest stack at the table is Kelly Kim with 2.6 million and is thus the long shot to win the title at 25 to 1.
The final table will take place at the Rio Hotel and Casino on November 9 with the heads-up match for the $9.1 million first-place prize taking place on November 10. Head over to the Bodogs Sportsbook for more details on Bodog’s WSOP final table prop bet.
Source: BodogLife.com