“docbox3” Wins Bodog Poker’s Final $100k GTD; Now Worth $250k
Posted on August 14, 2008
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BodogPoker.com hosted its last Sunday $100,000 Guaranteed online poker tournament last weekend, with ‘docbox3’ outlasting the field to take the 1st place prize. Next Sunday, the BodogPoker $100k GTD will be permanently replaced by the new $250k guaranteed on Sunday, August 10.
After skillfully whittling his way through a field of 720 competitors, ‘docbox3’ was awarded the 1st place prize of $23,600. ‘SirStevie89’ put up a great fight in heads-up action, but came up short to earn $13,600 for the second place victory.
BodogPoker insists that, regardless of how many players enter, the $250,000 GTD prize pool will remain. It’s interesting that Bodog has chosen to up its largest prize pool by so much, when there’s hardly a field to cover the original $100,000. Last Sunday, 720 players turned out to compete for the prize, causing an overlay – great for the online poker players, but not so great for Bodog Poker, who must shell out the extra cash to cover the purse.
The online poker community as a whole will be keeping an eye on Bodog Poker next Sunday, whether directly or via online poker news headlines, to see if the spiked prize pool will be alluring enough to draw significantly more players into the field.
Bodog Poker has found itself in the media spotlight lately, having just seen members of Team Bodog do famously well at 2008 WSOP events. The online poker room also made headlines by awarding the first seats in the 2009 WSOP.
Perhaps it is the hopes of Bodog Poker big-wigs that this exceptional coverage will produce a much higher rate of traffic at the tournament tables. It hasn’t happened yet, but the dangling carrot of $250,000 up for grabs should be doubly enticing.
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