Bodog Poker Open in full swing
March 5, 2008
This week, online poker players are competing for cash, prizes and bragging rights in the inaugral Bodog Poker Open.
There's a total of $75k being added on top of the already large prize pools, as well as great prizes like an Omega Speedmaster Pro watch worth $4,400.
In what has become a popular format for online poker rooms, the Bodog Poker Open is a series of 6 daily tournaments, each featuring a different online poker game.
Tonight's event is #3 - the No-Limit Holdem with rebuys, with a buyin of just $100+$10 and $10k added to the prize pool. Yes that's added, not guaranteed, meaning that the $10,000 is added on top of what all the buyins end up being for the prize pool.
The six BPO events this week will have online players battling it out in different formats of Texas Holdem, including No Limit, Pot Limit, Limit, No Limit with Re-buys and Six-Handed No Limit. Winners of the preliminary events will win entry to the BPO Main Event in addition to their tournament winnings.
Players can buy directly into any of the events with cash or Bodog Tournament Credits or win their way in through any number of low-cost satellites running daily at the Bodog poker tables.
"This is the biggest poker tournament in Bodog history, and we're letting our players know this by adding big money to the BPO's prize pools and by giving our first ever Bodog Poker Champion something special to remember his or her win by," said Bodog's Morris Mohawk Gaming Group CEO Alwyn Morris.
"We expect a great turnout in all of the BPO events as players compete for the cash and the glory."
Event one saw Bodog member, RUSOSTREET win over $26,000 when he defeated Team Bodog pros Evelyn Ng and Josh Arieh who finished 2nd & 3rd respectively.
The BPO culminates on Sunday, March 9, at 4 p.m. EST, with the $500 buy-in Bodog Poker Open Main Event, where the winner will not only walk away with the top prize and be crowned the first ever Bodog Poker Champion, but will also receive an engraved Omega Speedmaster Pro watch worth $4,400.
Visit Bodog Poker to get amongst the action.
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Editor's note - I want that watch! I got an Omega Seamaster for my 30th birthday and it's my most prized possession - best watches ever.