Monday, June 26, 2006

Bodog Sponsors 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Poker Event

LOS ANGELES, June 26-- Bodog, the online gambling and entertainment giant, has signed on as the official sponsor of Baron Davis and Paul Pierce's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" A Magic Night of Poker, Players and Stars Friday July 7th at the Avalon and Spider Club in Hollywood.

Top celebrities, hot NBA players and VIP's will test their luck competing in a Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament. Bodog CEO, Calvin Ayers, will host the celebration along with Pierce and Davis and together they will pay special tribute to Magic Johnson.

The All-Star charity weekend will continue with A Midsummer Night's Glam Jam -- a night of music and fashion fusion at the House of Blues on Sunset, as well as, Game Day: celebrity and NBA-sanctioned All-Star basketball games downtown at the Staples Center.

The weekend will close with the Champion Celebration Sunday night at a renowned LA hot spot.

The weekend is presented and hosted by L.A. Stars, a charitable event group composed of the Baron Davis Foundation and Paul Pierce's Truth Foundation. A portion of the weekend's proceeds will also go to The Magic Johnson Foundation.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Teen Bodog Winner Faces Poker Pro

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A 19-year-old from North Carolina takes his shot at poker glory Thursday night when he faces Josh Arieh, one of the top players in the world, for $12,000 at Bodog Poker Room.

Justin Hendricks of Chapel Hill, N.C., qualified to play a Team Bodog poker pro by finishing atop the online poker site’s Tournament Leader Board last week. Each day, Bodog poker players compete against each other to be the king of the board. The player who has the most points at the end of every week earns a prize of a $1,000 heads-up Sit-N-Go against Arieh, David Williams or Evelyn Ng, professional players who are sponsored exclusively by Bodog.

If the pro wíns the $1,000 game (which typically lasts between five and 25 minutes), the pot rolls over into the next week. A pro has won for 11 consecutive weeks, setting the stage for Hendricks to possibly clean up. He faces Arieh, who has totaled more than $4 million in career earnings.

Bodog, a favorite site for online poker players, has seen incredible popularity and success with its Tournament Leader Board, a feature that allows players in all Bodog tournaments to wín weekly and monthly prizes when they come out on top.

Continue Reading Teen Player Heads-Up With Poker Pro @ Bodog >>

Also:

Bodog qualifies online poker players to the 2006 World Series of Poker >>

2006 WSOP Tournament News, WSOP Schedule, WSOP Free Seats >>

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Poker Room Sends You To the $5 Million Poker Classic

A record-breaking prize pool of $5 million and at least $1 million for the final winner! That’s what awaits the lucky finalists at the Poker Classic live event in Barcelona on Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2006.

Poker Room gives you the chance to be part of this huge poker event. Buy-in starts at only $1+0.10 and there are seven different qualifiers to start with. Get involved now, it’s going to be a classic!

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The BIGGEST guaranteed prize for a Poker Tournament starting entirely online and you can qualify now for only $1. There are 5 million reasons to get involved!

You can qualify for this exciting event either through Poker Room’s Sit & Go qualifiers or through Multi-table satellites.The diagram and information tables below illustrate how you can qualify for the online final.

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Monday, June 05, 2006

Free 2006 WSOP Seats from InterPoker

interpoker-logo.jpgInterPoker has announced their $15,000 World Series of Poker package up for grabs. 100 lucky winners will win the chance to play at the 2006 WSOP in Las Vegas plus two extra tournament seats for free!

Each prize package, worth $15,000, includes buy-in to the main event, travel and accommodation, spending money, buy-in to a second chance WSOP Bracelet event and buy-in to another $200,000 tournament.

The prize breakdown as follows:

  • $10,000 entry into the Main Event (Event 39, no-limit texas hold’em, Friday, July 28 - Thursday, August 10, 2006.
  • $3,000 for 15 nights hotel stay at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino from July 27 to August 10, 2006, inclusive; departing on August 11, 2006.
  • $2,000 funded to your account for travel and spending money.

And as extra prizes, InterPoker will also pay for your seat at the following tournaments:

  • $1000 entry into Event 40 (no-limit texas hold ‘em, Thursday, August 3, 2006, 11am)
  • Entry into $200k Freeroll at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino (12noon, Saturday August 5th, 2006)

Players can enter through InterPoker’s daily online poker satellite tournaments. Various prizes will be awarded on a daily basis until the beginning of July 2006.

Last year, Interpoker’s WSOP entrant and winner Todd Whittles beat 406 other rounders for his first bracelet win in the $3,000 Limit Hold’em, winning $347,385.

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