Bodog Makes History with Online Poker Tournament

Bodoglife.com made history on Sunday night, as they hosted the largest guaranteed prize pool tournament in the online poker room’s history. The $250,000 Guaranteed Online Poker Tournament saw 816 players compete for massive payout, including Evelyn Ng, Jean-Robert Bellande, Eric “rizen” Lynch, Shawn “phatcat” Luman, Magnus “magpe” Petersson, Jose “head2782” Severino, Ari “BodogAri” Engel and Smith “nevertilt22” Collins.

KILL_BILL - PART THREE

135 online poker players ended up finishing in the money, and the first prize of $56,600 went to a German player with the online handle of “Kill_Bill.”

Alwyn Morris, CEO of the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, has this to say, “We'd like to congratulate KILL_BILL for his win against such a talent-rich field that included some of the biggest names from across the online poker world. We have a feeling we'll be seeing him back atop the leaderboard soon. We're thrilled by the large number of online players who came out on Sunday to be a part of Bodog history. Many of these players took advantage of our daily satellites and were able to play for the $250,000 prize purse for as little as a dollar.”

FINAL TABLE RESULTS

Here are the results from the tournament’s final table:

Kill_Bill (1st - $56,600)

Jobless23 (2nd - $31,400)

DrDankRx23 (3rd - $21,750)

Mark “dipthrong” Helm (4th - $16,875)

Hongboy (5th - $13,625)

CrewRepresent (6th - $10,500)

Hunterare (7th - $7,750)

StonecoldMS (8th - $5,250)

TakeEmOut (9th - $3,000)

WSOP EUROPE

But Bodog isn’t finished hosting great tournaments - not by a long shot. Next up is the online qualifier for this year’s World Series of Poker Europe in London. Qualifiers are held daily, and the buy-ins are as low as only $1.

The tournament will culminate in a September 7th semifinal event, where two lucky players will be guaranteed of winning seats to the Main Event of the WSOP Europe (which, by the way, is an official WSOP bracelet event), along with airfare, hotel accommodations and spending cash. The value of the prize is right around $24,000.

Last year, Matt McCullough of New Jersey qualified through Bodog’s online tournament and finished third in the WSOP Europe Main Event. He walked away with $766,674. Not a bad return for an investment of just a few dollars.

For more Bodog happenings, check out the following:

Bodog Poker Adds New Online Features

Win Seats to 2008 WSOP Europe

Bodog Makes History with Online Poker Tournament