Bodog Life Poker has just recently announced their first poker tournament series called the Bodog Poker Open. There will be 6 events in the tournament series with the main event on March 9th and will have a $470+$30 buy-in with $25k added and the winner of the tournament receiving a omega speed master watch worth $4,400.
The Bodog Poker Open is a week long tournament with the first event played on Monday, March 3rd with a No Limit tournament with a $250+$20 buy-in and $10k added. Everyday after will have a tournament played with $10k added until the 7th when there is a two day break before the main event on Sunday. Winners of the first five events will get free entry to the main event.
Bodog Life is currently running satellites to qualify for all the tournament events with buy-in’s for as little as $5 dollars in re-buy satellite tournaments. They are running satellites for each event twice a day starting one month before the start of the tournament, so basically all of the bodog poker open events currently have satellites running.
Poker tournament series have become staples of large online poker rooms with Full Tilt Poker offering the FTOPS and Poker Stars with the WCOOP.
BPO Update:
Question: Why does Bodog now use Bodoglife.com and Bodoglife.net as their domain name? Why not just stick with Bodog.com?
Answered by: Kendall
This has definitely been a hot topic over the past year and it wasn’t bodog’s idea to switch domain names. They were forced to when they lost their domain name in a patent dispute with 1st Tech.
1st Tech was able to win a default judgment of $49 million dollars and the Bodog domain name. Bodog then challenged the ruling and was granted temporary use of another domain name. Bodog originally switched its operations to newbodog.com but then a week later decided that Bodog Life would be their new home. Bodog is currently appealing the original ruling and the court has yet to make a decision on the case.
Since the switch to Bodog Life nothing has changed at Bodog. They are still the same company with the same employee’s, websites and online gaming offerings. Bodog has not skipped a beat since the domain switch. They are now more popular then ever and their re-branding process was a success with no visible down turn in traffic or service.
It will be interesting to see if Bodog wins their original domain name in the proceeding court battle. It could take years so this question may be a long standing one but will Bodog keep Bodog Life.com as their main domain or go back to Bodog.com?
….Well thats another question for another day.
Supplemental Reading
-Press release from the Bodog affiliate department about the domain name switch.
- Bodog Founder, Calvin Ayre’s response of the forced switch to Bodog Life.
