Bodog Sending Poker Blogger to WSOP

As a nod to all the fine poker bloggers out there that have contributed so much to popularizing the the game, Bodog Poker is sending a poker blogger to the World Series of Poker!

The lucky blogger will be the eventual winner of the Bodog Poker Blogger Tournament Series, which runs Tuesday nights. Aside from the WSOP grand prize, there’s also weekly prizes that include Bodog tournament dollars … all for an $11 buy-in.

So if you’re an active poker blogger head over the tournament site and sign up! Not a blogger, but looking for your chance at glory at the WSOP? Bodog is actively running online WSOP satellites at the poker room — check ‘em out!

Bodog to Host Inaugural Bodog Poker Open

Online poker players will be competing this March for some serious cash, not to mention serious bragging rights, when Bodog hosts its inaugural tournament series, the Bodog Poker Open (BPO).

Starting on Monday, March 3, the BPO will feature five preliminary events, all leading up to the series’ championship, the $500 buy-in BPO Main Event, held on Sunday, March 9. There, the inaugural Bodog Poker Champion will be crowned and walk away with the top cash prize and an engraved Omega Speedmaster watch.

Always eager to sweeten the pot for its online poker players, Bodog Poker will add a total of $75,000 in additional money to the BPO’s prize pools, creating a larger prize pool to each tournament and giving players an exceptional value for their buy-ins.

To read more about the Bodog Poker Open, click here.

Bodog Launches Online Qualifiers to the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event

It may still be wickedly cold outside, but things are heating up this February in the Bodog Poker Room with the launch of online qualifiers for the 2008 World Series of Poker* Main Event, scheduled for July 3 – 15 at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Starting today, Bodog Poker is guaranteeing at least three $12,000 Main Event Prize Packages weekly through its “Main Event Semifinal” tournaments, held every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Additionally, online poker players can win a seat at this summer’s world championship event through Bodog’s weekly “Player’s Choice” tournaments.

“The WSOP* Main Event is poker’s biggest and richest tournament, and Bodog will once again have a major presence at the tables in Las Vegas this summer,” said Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre. “Over the past four years, Team Bodog has brought home close to $19 million from the WSOP* Main Event alone, and we’re planning on sending a much bigger team than last year to take home even more winnings.”

WSOP qualifiers are running now … get in on the action!

Bodog Entertainment Launches Chinese Web Presence and Ad Campaign

One of the world’s most exciting digital entertainment companies, Bodog Entertainment continues to build its momentum in the Chinese market in 2008. Already having opened a Chinese hotline to offer world-class customer service last year, Bodog is stepping up its effort by launching a brand new Chinese web page to assist its increasing number of Chinese customers. Billionaire entertainment mogul and Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre vows to make Bodog an online Macau.

“Stanley Ho, watch out! Bodog wants to be known as the Macau of the online world. With the best games, top customer service and the innovation to bring the most exciting entertainment to our Chinese customers, they don’t need to look to Macau or Las Vegas. We bring the excitement to them,” said Calvin Ayre. “2008 is a big year for the Chinese and Bodog. We want our Chinese customers to know that Bodog has the same Beijing Olympic spirit to achieve the best.”

To read more about Bodog Entertainment, click here.

Canadian Music Icon Bif Naked Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

Only three months after her highly publicized marriage to Vancouver Sun extreme sports columnist Ian Walker, platinum-selling Bodog Music recording artist Bif Naked revealed Sunday in a candid radio interview with noted Canadian television and radio personality George Stroumboulopoulos that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. “It is a very surreal situation for Ian and I at this time. Two weeks ago, I was doing a self breast exam and discovered a lump. I went into my doctor for a checkup and he immediately sent me for tests, including a mammogram, which indicated a high possibility of cancer. From there, things have gone at what seems like light speed: biopsy, blood tests, cancer clinic. It’s been two weeks from being completely healthy to cancer patient with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy scheduled,” explained Bif.

“I’m glad it’s me and not my mom,” Bif continued. “I’m glad it’s me and not my sister. I’m glad it’s me and not any of my friends. I am ready for the fight.”

To read more about Bif Naked, click here.

Thirteen lucky Bodog Pai-Gow Poker players will win a brand new iPod Touch

Starting Dec. 20, 2007 and running for six weeks, 13 lucky Pai-Gow Poker players will be awarded a brand new Bodog branded iPod Touch simply for playing the game they love. Hit one of 13 predetermined hands and an iPod Touch could be yours.

Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre added, “After the overwhelming success of the Let’em Ride iPhone contest in June, we’ve once again decided to step up our game and offer Bodog’s Pai-Gow Poker players a shot at some fantastic prizes.”

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Bodog launches its best poker sign-up bonus ever!

We’ve all heard top coaches asking their teams to give 110 percent for the cause and know that they are asking the impossible. However, Bodog likes the impossible and launches its best ever poker sign-up bonus. Starting today, new sign-ups will receive a 110 percent bonus!

Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre commented, “Few sporting clichés are as worn-out and ubiquitous as ‘I’ll give it 110 percent’ or ‘I want 110 percent.’ Most people believe that it’s impossible to give anything more than 100 percent, but at Bodog, we don’t believe that. We like to work hard and play harder, so that’s why we are offering new sign-ups to Bodog Poker a 110 percent bonus. The new sign-up bonus on top of the slick, new version of our poker software makes Bodog the best place to play poker online.”

To read more about Bodog poker bonuses, click here.

The Beat Goes Online…Bodog Launches Its U.K. Blog

Bodog Entertainment, one of the world’s fastest-growing digital entertainment companies, has further expanded its U.K. offerings by opening an all new blog, Bodog Beat.Bodog Beat gives readers the company’s take on the world of sports, entertainment, girls, celebrities and, of course, gambling.

Bodog Beat is staffed by a team of U.K. journalists drawn from national newspapers, magazines and online publications who provide daily stories. Unique to Bodog, punters will then have a flutter on some of the top stories at the Bodog Sportsbook. Currently, U.K. residents can enjoy Bodog’s world-renowned casino and poker room at www.bodoglife.co.uk, and starting early 2008, punters will be able to bet on all of their favourite sports, including football, rugby, cricket, horse racing and many more.

To read more about Bodog Beat UK, click here.

Bodog Puts Four EPT Scandinavian Open Buy-Ins Up For Grabs

Think you’ve got what it takes to win the Scandinavian Open? Europe’s poker elite will be taking to the tables in Copenhagen for the European Poker Tour, and you could be one of four people sent there by Bodog! Bodog is offering four lucky winners the chance to compete at the Scandinavian Open held at the Casino Copenhagen in Denmark. The event was won earlier this year by Team Bodog’s Magnus Petersson from Stockholm, who was playing in his first EPT tournament and beat the favourite, ElkY, heads up to win the €550,000 ($800,000+) pot.

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Judge Declares Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A. Not Subject to Examination Under Nevada Law

In the potentially law redefining case of 1st Technology, LLC vs. Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A., on Nov. 28, a federal magistrate judge in Las Vegas ruled in favor of a motion initiated by the defense team stating that Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A. is not a resident of Nevada, and therefore is not subject to examination under Nevada law.

Additionally, the magistrate judge also ruled that Calvin Ayre, founder of BODOG (unrelated to Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A.) is also not required to appear for examination (because he too is not a resident of Nevada). Thus, the magistrate denied a contempt motion by 1st Technology, LLC, and found that Ayre cannot be in contempt of court for failing to appear in Las Vegas for an examination (as previously stated in press efforts from 1st Technology and its public face Scott W. Lewis.)

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