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Posted on March 4th, 2008 by kdollar
The first event of the Bodog Poker Open was played today. Event #1 of the BPOpen hosted at Bodog Life Poker was a No Limit Hold-em $250+$20 buy in with $10k added. There were 377 players that registered for the event which averages out to be $26 dollars added for every player in the event.
Players from team bodog poker played in the tournament including David Williams, Josh Arieh and Evelyn Ng. They weren't there for show as they all went very deep in the tournament. Evelyn Ng was runner up in the tournament taking second place and getting $16,680. Josh Arieh took third place and took home $11,571. David Williams went out in 39th place missing a payday by 3 players.
The winner of the inaugural event was rusostreet who became the first winner of a Bodog Poker Open event and took home $26,062. The tournament lasted a little over 6 hours and had a great final table with some all-in's and a couple bad beats. Overall the first Bodog Poker Open event was a huge success with bodog pro's almost taking the tournament down.
Bodog Poker Open
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by kdollar
Bodog Life Poker has just recently announced their first poker tournament series called the Bodog Poker Open. There will be 6 events in the tournament series with the main event on March 9th and will have a $470+$30 buy-in with $25k added and the winner of the tournament receiving a omega speed master watch worth $4,400.
The Bodog Poker Open is a week long tournament with the first event played on Monday, March 3rd with a No Limit tournament with a $250+$20 buy-in and $10k added. Everyday after will have a tournament played with $10k added until the 7th when there is a two day break before the main event on Sunday. Winners of the first five events will get free entry to the main event.
Bodog Life is currently running satellites to qualify for all the tournament events with buy-in's for as little as $5 dollars in re-buy satellite tournaments. They are running satellites for each event twice a day starting one month before the start of the tournament, so basically all of the bodog poker open events currently have satellites running.
Poker tournament series have become staples of large online poker rooms with Full Tilt Poker offering the FTOPS and Poker Stars with the WCOOP.
BPO Update:
Why Bodog.com is now BodogLife.com
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by kdollar
Question: Why does Bodog now use Bodoglife.com and Bodoglife.net as their domain name? Why not just stick with Bodog.com?
Answered by: Kendall
This has definitely been a hot topic over the past year and it wasn't bodog's idea to switch domain names. They were forced to when they lost their domain name in a patent dispute with 1st Tech.
1st Tech was able to win a default judgment of $49 million dollars and the Bodog domain name. Bodog then challenged the ruling and was granted temporary use of another domain name. Bodog originally switched its operations to newbodog.com but then a week later decided that Bodog Life would be their new home. Bodog is currently appealing the original ruling and the court has yet to make a decision on the case.
Since the switch to Bodog Life nothing has changed at Bodog. They are still the same company with the same employee's, websites and online gaming offerings. Bodog has not skipped a beat since the domain switch. They are now more popular then ever and their re-branding process was a success with no visible down turn in traffic or service.
It will be interesting to see if Bodog wins their original domain name in the proceeding court battle. It could take years so this question may be a long standing one but will Bodog keep Bodog Life.com as their main domain or go back to Bodog.com?
....Well thats another question for another day.
Supplemental Reading
-Press release from the Bodog affiliate department about the domain name switch.
- Bodog Founder, Calvin Ayre's response of the forced switch to Bodog Life.
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