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Just as the World Series of Poker Europe winds down, another major event has risen to take its place in London. Yesterday was Day 1A of the European Poker Tour London main event, where a total of 339 players turned out for the first of two starting days at the Hilton Metropole. A healthy mix of pros, amateurs and online players showed up for the event, the second day of which just began. The current chip leader is online qualifier Soheb Porbandarwala, whose rapid ascent indicates that he is definitely someone to watch during this year's event. HEre's the top ten chip holders from Day 1A.

1. Soheb Porbandarwala – 218,600
2. Konstantin Bucherl – 187,900
3. Thomas Bichon – 185,000
4. John O’Shea – 184,400
5. Joep van den Bijgaart – 167,600
6. Dominique Franchi – 152,800
7. Adrian Bussman – 152,700
8. Craig Stevens – 149,300
9. Steven Levy – 145,400
10. Daniel Da Silva Pacheco – 144,900

Of course, while these players moved to the top of the heat, there were plenty of casualties who hit the rails as the field was narrowed down to 146 by the end of play. Included in this group were Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss, Anton Wigg, Luca Pagano, Faraz Jaka and WSOPE main event finalist Roland de Wolf.

While the Main Event was kicking off, the last few rounds of the previous events were winding down. A huge moment was Annette Obrestad's domination of the £5,000 heads-up event. Obrestad kept her typical cool and walked away with a very nice £120,000 for her dedicated play.

There's only a few more events before the $200,000 Guaranteed Bodog Poker Open V Championship Series Main Event. In addition to being one of the largest single tournaments hosted by Bodog each year, the Bodog Poker Open V gives its winners more than just money; they earn a spot in the Bodog Poker Open Hall of Fame and in a first for the online poker room, they'll also get an engraved Corum Romulus Chronograph worth over $5,000. With a bonus that massive up for grabs, it's easy to see why so many are registering for satellite tournaments and the Main Event directly!

This Saturday, October 2, Bodog is hosting a special series of ten satellites in its Championship Series where over 35 players are going to get their chance at a seat in the Main Event with buy-ins ranging from $20+2 to $69+6. Sunday sees a group of Last Chance satellites that offer a final batch of twelve seats for the BPOV Main Event, including Turbo and Super Turbo tournaments.

Then, on Sunday evening, the BPO Championship Series Main Event kicks off. The $470+30 main event is the climax to a fantastic series of events and you can buy in directly or win through one of the satellites mentioned above. Again: it's about more than cash and fame; this year's winner gets a watch manufactured by the same team behind the WSOP bracelets, a fantastic piece of poker history that is well worth bragging about. Bodog Poker

Yes i saw it before.. is unreal.. i never want this to happen to me.. but u know.,. if u are not the best hand the others can beat u

So i thought i was pretty fair at online poker and make pretty good odds so why not try it for money in real life ,right ? so i had a texas holdem party and it turns out that playing in real life is much diffrent then playing online. Has anyone else tried this? did you find the same results

There is no long run. You can´t play enough live poker tournaments to get reliable results. Live tourney poker = too slow (no sample size) = pure luck ?!
What´s your opinion ?

Wow! I have won a lot in live games. It is a powerful thing looking into the eyes of your opponent and determining if he has cards. It is better than on line poker by far.

This weekend saw the grand finale of the Bodog Poker Open in both the Championship and Contender series of tournaments. The Bodog Poker Open V champion is Whitey03, who earned $50,000 for their first-place finish in the $200,000 guaranteed tournament along with an engraved Corum Romulus Chronograph valued at over $5,000 and a spot in the Bodog Poker Open Hall of Fame. The rest of the top three finishers got a lot for their buy-in dollar as well with second-placer hebs earned $32,000 and how8life's third place finish netted them a tidy $20,200.

The rest of the Bodog Poker Open V Championship Series final table shook down as follows: braveheartEstyzBallin ($11,200); fishy23 ($9,000); t2gkingb51 $4,400; amity $3,400.

With such a massive prize pool, it was easy to see why so many players showed up, despite the high buy-in. In addition to the Championship Series finale, its lower-stakes sibling wrapped up as well and while the Contender had lower buy-ins and smaller prizes, the action at the $15,000 Guaranteed tournament was fast-paced and furious leading up to the final table. The Contender Series champion was palcemvglaz, who won $4,324 for their first-place finish and got their name in the Bodog Poker Open Hall of Fame. The rest of the top three finishers were I M A King, whose second-place finish got them a nice $2,767.36 while bornwinner86 earned their name with $1,746.89 added to their bankroll.

The rest of the final table in the contender series featured some familiar names to Bodog players: Nope 1124 ($1,383.68); johnpavlon ($968.57); Evil_E ($778,32); armstrizal21 ($605.36); B Pars ($380.51); Dimeboy ($294.03).

While Saturday featured a series of Championship Series Main Event satellites, there was one last regular Contender Series event. The $3,000 guaranteed tournament on Saturday gave the first place winner entry into the Bodog Poker Open V main event and the rest of the final table earned seats at the Contender Series Main Event. B Pars took that first place slot, earning $900. They were followed by shipme_chips ($600.00); JMG728 ($357.01); Lkport ($240.00); rjtii31 ($195.01); CarnePicante ($150.00); toddy ($105.01); PokerDavid ($77.99); haashkee ($51.01.)

These are in order of the date played:

pokker tokkers private buy-in 1st place wackky payout game Jul.14, 2010
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absolute $50 freeroll finishing in 8th Aug.28, 2010
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absolute $50 freeroll finishing in 5th Aug.29, 2010
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full tilt $100 canadian freeroll finishing in 24th Sept.16, 2010
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absolute $50 freeroll finishing 3rd Sept.23, 2010
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Just a day after his EPT London Main Event victory, Scottish poker pro David Vamplew took on the UK & Ireland Poker Tour Champion of Champions event and won. The televised event featured winners from the first season of the UK & Ireland Poker Tour series and Vamplew faced some of the best in the scene, including Padraig Parkinson, Jamie Burland, Andrew Couldridge, Max Silver, Gilles Augustus and Joeri Zandvliet.

After a few brutal hours of play at the single-table tournament, Vamplew beat Jamie Burland in heads-up action and won a very nice prize package worth over £50,000. He's now got a seat for every event in the UK & Ireland Poker Tour's second season, including the EPT London Grand Final next year. When he was asked how it felt to have won two tournaments in as many days, Vamplew said "It's pretty good; after yesterday, it's icing on the cake."

Jamie Burland, who won his seat at the event after taking the top spot in the UKIPT Brighton event was more than gracious in defeat. "I hoped David would get tired after yesterday but… he played really good."

His leap from online NL400 games to two major real-world tournament victories in as many days means that Vamplew is doing more than just playing "real good." He's becoming someone that the entire game is going to look towards and expect great things from.

Hi everyone

Bodog have a selection of promtions during this event that starts in the beginning of november. But you can already start betting on various races for the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Races

Zenyatta, a 6-year old filly, who not only has an impressive record of 19-0, but also made history in 2009 by becoming the only female to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Win or lose this will be her last race, as she is set to retire after this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic. Bodog wants to celebrate her career with a promotion that puts her in the spotlight by offering players a $20 risk free bet from October 6 – November 2.

Bet against Zenyatta at bodog sportsbook

Looks like a string of some nice Finishes .

Way to go on the ITM and 1st Place Finish.

Congrats tatonkkaa.

Well done.

Wow! I have won a lot in live games. It is a powerful thing looking into the eyes of your opponent and determining if he has cards. It is better than on line poker by far.


I think there is more skill playing live then online. You have the ability to read the player and with so much information around you it's a Total game instead of a half game like online poker is.

Live Rules .........

To quote the elderly Hubert J. Farnsworth in Futurama, "Good news, Everybody!" Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, one of the leading Alzheimer's disease researchers has stated that poker and other games can help stave off the disease that has cost so many their mental faculties. Retirement may, in fact, be a bad thing for many people who move from an active lifestyle with mental stimulation to passively watching life go by.

"The logical extension of the data we have on dementia is that a person who is still capable of working, who is mentally stimulated with a strong sense of purpose. is better off from the cognitive point of view continuing to engage in that position."

In his work, Cummings points out a French study from 2009 in which they took a look at 5,000 people. It showed that, across the board, activities like playing cards, even just twice a week, led to a risk reduction of 50% for all forms of dementia, including Alzheimers.

This is good news for more than just the people who are affected by the tragic disease and their families. Overall, if more people were mentally active in their golden years, we could be looking at a massive savings to the economy. If present markers continue to trend upward, Alzheimers will cost American taxpayers over $20,000,000,000,000 over the next 40 years.

This past Sunday saw the return of our weekly $100,000 guaranteed tournaments after the Bodog Poker Open. These massive tourneys go down every Sunday at 4pm EST and feature some of the best online poker action out there. amaru34 took the top spot and earned a very nice $25,000 for their efforts, followed by Iranianpokerpro ($15,000) and d u c k man, who rounded out the top three while earning $9,500. Here's the rest of the final table results: SkewpTroop ($7,000); zurswierding ($5,500); Troy111 ($4,500); misclick1979 ($3,500); PYCB ($2,200); Batil ($1,700);

However, Bodog hosted its regular weekly tournaments to players, and here's the winners of last week's events!

* October 4 $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack Santiva
* October 5 $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack Pat4ak2
* October 6 $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack johall111
* October 7 $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack douseyDD
* October 10 $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack DaCook
* October 10 $10k Guaranteed Turbo Double-Stack goskins2

Bodog's guaranteed tournaments mean that there's always a big cash pool. Play poker online at Bodog and get your share!

Bodog Poker is sending five players to this year’s Punta Cana Poker Classic in the Dominican Republic and they’ve made it possible for you to get in on the action for as little as $1! If you're one of the winners who qualify in the Punta Cana Classic Satellite, you'll get a $3,000 prize package that will take them away from the chill of autumn and down to one of the most beautiful places in the world to play poker.

Qualifiers are already underway with a series of $10+1 SemiFinal tournaments going down at 7:35pm and 10:35pm ET each and every day. Three seats in the Punta Cana Classic Satellite tournament are guaranteed to be awarded from each of these tournaments, and if $10+1 isn't a good enough deal for you, Bodog's also running special Punta Cana Classic Cheap Seat tourneys every day at 8:35pm. Each of these $1 buy-in events offer up five guaranteed seats in the Punta Cana Classic Satellite. If you're confident in your abilities, however, and want to jump straight to the top, the Punta Cana Classic Satellite goes down on Saturday, October 30th at 4:35pm with a $100+9 buy-in.

If you win, you'll need to pack pretty quickly: the Punta Cana Poker Classic 2010 runs from November 10th through 14th at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana, one of the Dominican Republic (and the world's) premiere beach destinations. Your $3000 prize package includes your $2,000 buy-in for the tournament, $1,000 cash for your flight and spending money and you’ll stay at the all-inclusive Punta Cana Moon Palace Hotel and Resort.

You can get more information when you visit the Punta Cana Poker Classic page on Bodog Poker!

It really doesn’t suck to be Matt Ahrens right now. Why? OK, yes, his Fulham English Premier League team did lose 2-1 to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, but he got a pretty good consolation prize: He got to hang with 37 Bodog Girls before and during the game there and won a trip for two to Las Vegas with all accommodations and spending money thrown in.

Here’s what happened: For the past few weeks, the Bodog Girls were entering soccer fans to win tickets to that Fulham-Spurs’ game. Long story short, there were 37 lucky winners who got to meet in a Fulham bar – Perseverance Bar just off the Putney Bridge — before the match with 37 Bodog Girls. All 37 winners got go on the pitch at halftime with his own Bodog Girl, where one winner was randomly chosen in a human roulette wheel. That was Matt.

Ahrens, 28, and originally from Essex, was understandably happy, even doing a sprint down the pitch.

“The smile hasn’t dropped from my face and I don’t think it will do for a couple of days at least,” he said. “After I’d gone off on my run, my mates wondered why I hadn’t tried re-enacting a Klinsmann dive!”

So who is going with him to Vegas?

“I’m here with one of my mates so I think he’s going to be leaning heavily on my shoulder,” Matt said.

You know, assuming he doesn’t ask the Bodog Girl.

So do you really need any other reason to join Bodog?

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On Friday, Full Tilt Poker announced the signing of tennis pro James Blake as a Friend of Full Tilt.

The 30-year-old athlete, who turned pro in 1999, has consistently been ranked among tennis’ elite. James has emerged as one of the most recognized faces in the world of tennis over the past decade, thanks in part to a win versus Rodger Federer in a 2008 Beijing Olympic quarterfinal match.

The former participant on Bravo’s second edition of Celebrity Poker Showdown was most recently seen in action at the US Open where he advanced to the third round.

Blake has $6,916,309 in career earnings on the tennis court.

If you played Texas Hold 'Em Poker using the popular Facebook application, then you may want to reevaluate your relationship with the social media site. The Wall Street Journal has revealed that the names of people that use some of Facebook's most popular applications are being transmitted to outside companies. The applications responsible for this include notorious developer Zynga's FarmVille and Texas Hold 'Em games.

The information being sent to the outside companies is one of the basic building blocks on the site, a player's "Facebook ID" number. This number is a public part of every user profile and anyone can use that number to look up information about the user, even if they've set their preferences so that their information is supposed to be private. For users that aren't as careful, these outside companies can get complete access to their lives.

While the companies argue that this sort of surveillance is conducted anonymously and is benign, at least one firm involved has been using the numbers to build a database of users that they've been selling to interested parties.

"This is an even more complicated technical challenge than a similar issue we successfully addressed last spring on Facebook.com," a Facebook spokesman told the Journal, "but one that we are committed to addressing."

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Randal Flowers has won the Festa Al Lago stop on the World Poker Tour, defeating a field of 335 players and earning $831,500 for his first-place finish. At only 22 years old, he's become the youngest person to hold multiple World Poker Tour titles. In addition to the cash payout, Flowers won a bracelet from both the World Poker Tour and the Bellagio and has earned entry into the World Poker Tour World Championship.

Comparing this victory to the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship, Flowers said: "It's much sweeter. It’s double the prize and it’s a lot more attention. Hopefully winning number two will help me get some recognition. Nobody even knew I won in Barcelona."

Flowers already has $2,221,562 in online winnings and with this victory, his live tournament earnings have leaped to $1.8 million. It was by no means an easy victory, however. He nearly found himself railbirding just before the final table after pushing all-in holding K-10 versus Michael Benvenuti's pocket kings. He was saved by a straight that was made on the river and that gave him enough chips to be the clear leader when final table of six players was determined.

When Benvenuti and Flowers met again at the showdown, play lasted less than 20 hands, which is remarkable for an event like the World Poker Tour. Flowers raised to 330,000 on the final hand while holding 9c3d and was called by Benvenuti. The flop hit: 9s6c5s and Flowers tossed in 420,000. Benvenuti went all-in and Flowers called. Unfortunately, Benvenuti's flush draw and gunshot didn't stand a chance once the turn hit: 4c and with a River that affected no one, Flowers won the championship.

With names like.

Online Poker Aliases:
RandALLin
RandALLin
3BARRELLINU
RandalFlowers
ScoopAndStack

He has to be Hyper Aggresive.
lol

Never heard of him before this.
Thanks for the info.