The Biggest cash prize yet was announced by Bodog’s website, with the main Texas hold em event giving away $300,000. The total for the eight day poker event will be more than $650,000, over the course of the weeklong poker tournament. The Bodog Texas Hold em event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The well-known Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the participants can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker competitor they knock out of the poker event. The biggest poker celebs will be playing all rivals in the poker tournament.

Team Bodog star, Justin Bonomo, is undeniably thrilled about the event. Over the course of his poker playing career, the 23 year old has brought home nearly $1.4 million. He says that if you thought the first poker championship was big, you will definitely be astounded with this year’s tournament and the prize money involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to eliminate him from the poker tournament to step forward.

The Kick off Bounty Tournament is going to be the first poker game in the championship on Sunday. Any poker player is able to buy-In right into this, and any of the other poker matches with cash. Or another option is to win their way into the events through the satellites which are presented every night during the Texas Hold em contest week. There will be six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, which will feature higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.

There are thirteen eliminatories which will lead up to the main poker event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the grand prize event with a guaranteed $300,000 in cash, despite the amount of poker players in the Bodog Open. All the players who decide to enter the main poker contest will have to shell out $500 for the buy-in and in exchange will be given 10,000 in tournament chips.

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BodogLife.com has changed its name again after the recent controversy created by the lawsuit that has required the venerable online poker room to give up the URL that it has used for so many years. In the case of this type of legal attack, it has become obvious that the opportunistic and litigious society that has sprung up in recent years has taken advantage of the poorly worded nature of the legal rulings of legislators concerning the legality of the online poker rooms and casinos on the Internet. Due to the fact that these online poker rooms are extraordinarily vulnerable to legal action in the modern day, certain individuals have been able to utilize the gray area that exists around poker rooms and casinos to push their own personal agenda and enable them to make money from the suffering of others. With the efforts of so many individuals to exploit the loosely interpreted legal wrangling and boilerplate that makes up the majority of these types of legal defenses for poker rooms on the Internet, it is easy to see that running a successful poker room on the Internet is a difficult business indeed. Keeping the intellectual property of online poker rooms and casinos such as Fulltiltpoker.com free and clear of any question of a proprietary leveraging attempt, these types of Internet-based gaming establishments have their work cut out for them far into the future.

As more and more individuals attempt to take advantage of these types of loosely interpreted laws, it becomes clear that poker rooms and casinos have much to be concerned about in regards to their private security and the attempts of individuals to take advantage of the legalities. Considering the tremendous legal loopholes that create such vulnerability in the United States for the status of poker rooms and gambling entities on the web, it is not surprising to see so many similar types of Internet-based poker rooms begin to lawyer up, hiring some of the most talented attorneys that are available in order to head off any further attempt at these types of legal actions. All it takes is one uncontested legal action and any innovative individual with a decent legal team can take over a highly profitable website to the tune of literally millions upon millions of dollars. With this extraordinarily unique legal ruling in the matter of the Bodog website, the potential for financial disaster in the future has been spelled out for online poker room and casino proprietors around the world.

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