Bodog Poker's Secrets To Online Hold'Em: Download Free Guide

Bodog Poker's Secrets To Online Hold'Em: Download Free Guide

by Bodog Poker
May 12 2010

It's that time again when most poker players are trying to win their way into the WSOP Main Event via online satellite tournaments; it seems like just yesterday Jeffery Lisandro was dominating every stud tournament he could find. 

This time of year is special because the excitement of the WSOP suddenly creates a giant fish pool of part-time and novice players online and in Vegas. This is the time for the annual feeding frenzy for the sharks, and the fish pool is so big that just about anyone can get their share of the bounty if they learn the basics of the game. 

So if your poker plans do not include a trip to Vegas in the coming months, Bodog is the best place to learn the game and to take advantage of all the action. 

Bodog has created a free-to-download poker guide for new players so anyone can quickly learn the basics of poker, making it the perfect time for you to get educated and ready to play competitive poker.

Free-to-Download Poker Guide PDF file

Bodog Poker's Secrets to Online Hold'Em

Bodog Poker has always had a reputation as the best poker room online to build a bankroll. The tournament fields are not thousands of players deep, and the Bodog community is a friendly group with lots of winning players willing to teach others the art of the game. 

With the new Bodog Poker's Secrets to Online Hold'em guide, new players can get an understanding of the basic strategies involved in poker. Without this knowledge it will take a long time to gain a deep understanding of hold'em, and the longer it takes the more it costs you to learn.

Hold'em Poker action can come in many different variants. One can play in limit, no limit, or pot limit cash games or tournaments. Tournaments can come in many different structures with faster or slower action, and after you play enough hands you'll know which types of tournaments and cash games best suit you and your game. If you stick to the action that you're best at, you'll have a better chance to own some of the tables along the way.

The Hold'em Secret guide will also explain how strategies like bankroll management and hand selection play an important role in hold'em success. Learning strategy will give you the tools to recognize what opponents are doing when they play their game - otherwise the fish will swim right by you and you'll miss out on all the fun and easy money. Learning how your opponents play will also help you decide which game gives you the best edge over the competition. 

If all of that isn't enough to get you to try Bodog Poker right now, they will also give you a 110% bonus on your first deposit up to $1100. 

Now that's some good bankroll strategy; getting more than twice your buy-in to get started with, with most of the best players online busy chasing WSOP Main Event seat satellites.

Bodog Poker's Final WSOP* Qualifier: 10 Main Event Seats Guaranteed

Bodog Poker's Final WSOP* Qualifier: 10 Main Event Seats Guaranteed

Big Overlays Expected; Huge Value For Buy-In Buck Likely!

June 09, 2010 

KAHNAWAKE, QC // Bodog Poker has already qualified 30+ players for the 2010 World Series of Poker* and this Sunday, June 13 at 4:35pm ET, another 10 guaranteed world series main event seats will be up for grabs in Bodog Poker's final 2010 WSOP* qualifier of the season. Don't miss out on this last chance opportunity to qualify for the world series main event with Bodog Poker. Big overlays are expected and will give players great value for their buy-in buck.

Bodog Poker's final 2010 World Series of Poker* qualifier, starting Sunday, June 13 at 4:35pm ET, is a big one, with 10 guaranteed main event seats on the line. Players can choose from a number of different methods to enter the tournament, including buying in directly for $470+$30. Alternatively, players can earn a seat in the tournament by winning a mid-range main event semi-final (starting as low as $25+$2.50) or by entering any number of Bodog Poker's daily cheap seat qualifiers (starting at as little as $1+$0) and working their way up to Sunday's 10 guaranteed seats online poker tournament. Players can also work there ways into the tournament by playing any last chance qualifiers leading up to the final guaranteed seats tournament of the season. The buy-ins are low, the action is fast, and the payoffs are big.

"Like most poker players that qualify for the 2010 World Series of Poker* with Bodog, this will be my first trip to the main event as a member of Team Bodog," says Bodog Poker Pro Amanda Musumeci. "I can't wait to represent Bodog Poker at the biggest poker event in the world, and getting to share that experience with 40+ other players that qualified through Bodog Poker is going to be something to remember for sure!"

As a special bonus for followers of @Bodog on Twitter, Bodog Poker will be running a world series edition of Bodog Twitter Trivia, where instead of awarding the usual $150+$12 Sunday $100,000 Guaranteed buy-in Bodog Poker will be giving away three separate $470+$30 tickets to Sunday's 10 guaranteed seats tournament. Running Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (June 9, 10 and 11 respectively), @Bodog will tweet a world series focused trivia question each day, followers can then direct message their answer along with Bodog account number, username or email address to @Bodog. Entries for each day will be accepted up until 11:59pm ET and each winner will be selected, at random, then contacted and announced via Twitter. That's three separate chances to win a $470+$30 buy-in, and the opportunity to win one of 10 world series main event seats, free!

Bodog.com Poker Pro David Williams Wins WPT World Championship

Bodog.com Poker Pro David Williams Wins WPT World Championship

Apr. 27, 2010 

KAHNAWAKE, QC // After coming in fourth-place in two World Poker Tour (WPT) tournaments and second in another, Bodog.com Poker Pro David Williams can cross yet another poker milestone off his bucket list - winning a WPT event. Best of all, of all the WPT events to win, William's took down the most prestigious, the WPT World Championship, held at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas this past week.

From the start of the tournament Williams' was feeling good about his chances, so much so that in a post-victory interview with WPT.com, he said of his friends and family: "I told everybody to come down... I said I'm going to win today and I want everyone to be here with me and to experience it." Sure enough, win he did, and he did so while his mother lead a huge cheering section of his closest friends and family, including fellow Bodog.com Poker Pro Evelyn Ng. 

William's is no stranger to the Poker spotlight, having played in the biggest poker tournaments around the globe and some of the most popular Poker TV shows in the industry, but Williams' truly cemented his status as one of Poker's elite at the 2006 WSOP* where he won his first bracelet. Make this year your year. Qualify for the World Series of Poker* through Bodog.com and you could be on the fast track to Poker superstardom.

Bodog Poker Network CEO to Offer Personal EUR1,000 Bounty at EPT Grand Final, Monaco

Bodog Poker Network CEO to Offer Personal EUR1,000 Bounty at EPT Grand Final, Monaco

Press Release Source: Bodog Poker Network On Monday April 12, 2010

LONDON, April 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In a new first for an EPT event Patrik Selin, the only CEO of a major poker company to play regularly in the world's biggest poker tournaments, will be offering a personal EUR1,000 cash to whoever knocks him out of the EPT Grand Final in Monaco (April 25th-30th).

London-based Swede, Selin, has an impressive poker CV both on a business level and as a player, including the EUR 500,000,000 sale of the OnGame poker network to BWin in 2006 whilst OnGame's CEO. At the felts he won the Ritz Club Live Tournament in 2006 and was 2nd to Peter Gould in the 2007 UK Open Main Event.

Bodog Poker Network's CEO Patrik Selin commented: "I think it's a shame more senior management of poker rooms do not play at these events as it is the best way to find out what players want. Everybody at a live event is passionate about the game and happy to talk about their likes and dislikes which is invaluable to anybody running a poker room.

"Now I have raised the stakes and will be putting EUR1,000 straight into to the hand of the person who knocks me out which should make the banter even more fun in Monaco."

    For further information please contact:

    Ed Pownall

    BodogBrand.com's Press Office (London)

    +44-7825-064776

"MrElPaso" Wins Bodog Poker Open IV Championship Event

"MrElPaso" Wins Bodog Poker Open IV Championship Event

Bodog Poker Open IV champion takes home top prize of $36,447.50, lands feature in international poker publication

For Immediate Release 

Nov. 9, 2009 

The online poker world crowned its newest superstar Sunday night when "MrElPaso" outlasted a field of 257 players, including a number of top online poker pros, to capture the Championship Event of the Bodog Poker Open IV. Along with his first place winnings of $36,447.50, "MrElPaso" will also be featured in a multi-page spread in an international poker magazine and receive extensive coverage on Bodog.com and the Bodog Beat.

"With the Bodog Poker Open IV, Bodog.com has given online poker players of all stripes the chance to win big while garnering the exposure they deserve," says Bodog Poker Pro David Williams. "I'd like to personally congratulate 'MrElPaso' for his impressive victory in the Bodog Poker Open IV. His win cements his status as one of online poker's newest stars, and I'm confident we'll be seeing him at plenty of final tables to come."

The $500 buy-in Bodog Poker Open IV Championship Event capped off a weeklong series of tournaments at Bodog.com that drew a total of 2,646 online poker players competing for more than $368,000 in cash prizes, with $65,000 in additional prize money added by Bodog.com. The Championship Event itself featured a total cash purse of $145,790, including $25,000 added by Bodog.com.

Quickly establishing itself as online poker's most popular new tournament series, the fourth installment of the Bodog Poker Open drew a number of notable pros to the Bodog.com poker tables on Sunday, including Bodog Poker Pros David Williams and Evelyn Ng, and online poker pros "nevertilt22," "UFpokerStar" and "ari." Despite the formidable field, "MrElPaso" was able to emerge victorious to take down his biggest cash to date. Finishing in second was dvbronco, who pocketed $24,419.82, and in third place was ari, who earned $16,182.69.

The Bodog Poker Open IV Championship Event final table results are as follows:

MrElPaso

dvbronco

Ari

JazzyFace

bklynzto81

naskoxx

ello

ShuMoneyTonite

LIVIN LOUD

The Bodog Poker Open IV kicked off on Sunday, Nov. 1, and featured two parallel tournament series: the Championship Series and the Contender Series. The Championship Series featured higher-stakes buy-ins along with $62,500 in added prize money courtesy of Bodog.com. Each event also awarded a T$500 seat into the Bodog Poker Open IV Championship Main Event to the winner. 

Featuring lower buy-ins, the Contender Series also awarded a T$500 seat into the Bodog Poker Open IV Championship Main Event to each event winner, while the remaining final table players earned entry to the Contender series finale (T$50) held on Sunday, Nov. 8. With $2,500 added to the prize pool, the Contender Series finale gave players incredible value for their buy-in, and it was "hitchchops" who took full advantage of that, walking away with the first-place prize of $3,268.10.

With another successful Bodog Poker Open in the books, the action at Bodog.com continues with a full slate of online poker tournaments catering to every level of player, including Bodog.com's Sunday $100,000 Guaranteed online poker tournament. Qualifiers for the $100,000 Guaranteed event start for as low as $1 and run daily.

For more details on the Bodog Poker $100k Guaranteed online poker tournament, visit: http://poker.bodog.com/tournaments/100k-guaranteed-tournament.html. 

About Bodog 

The Bodog licensing enterprise (www.bodogbrand.com) is a branded venture capital and licensing organization with its head office in the Caribbean nation of Antigua. BodogBrand.com holds the global rights to license the Bodog brand across all sectors, and its mandate is to partner with and/or license the brand to carefully-selected licensees to accelerate partner growth while simultaneously extending the Bodog brand into new and adjacent markets. BodogBrand.com currently licenses the Bodog brand to a variety of brand licensees for an array of products and services worldwide, including online gaming, music, and other entertainment properties. For more information, visit www.bodogbrand.com. 

About Morris Mohawk Gaming Group 

Morris Mohawk Gaming Group (MMGG) is the exclusive licensee of the "Bodog" brand for online gaming services in the United States and is led by Alwyn Morris, Olympic gold medalist, Order of Canada recipient, noted Canadian sportsman, First Nations leader and former Associate Director for the Mohawk Council of Chiefs in Kahnawake. MMGG is located in the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake – part of the seven communities that make up the Mohawk Nation - just outside Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission to offer gaming services from Kahnawake to users worldwide. For more information, visit www.morrismohawk.com. 

Bodog WSOP qualifying cheaper and easier

Bodog WSOP qualifying cheaper and easier
30 Apr 2009

Bodog Poker

(PRESS RELEASE) -- The rush is on for online poker players looking to qualify for the 2009 WSOP* Main Event—poker's richest and most prestigious tournament. Making qualifying cheaper and easier than ever before is Bodog.com Poker! The online poker powerhouse is running the simplest and most surefire qualifying tournament structure designed to suit every player's budget and style, and this Sunday, May 3, regardless of how many players enter, Bodog.com will award four Main Event prize packages worth $12,000 in its Main Event Semifinal.

"The road to poker immortality just got easier," says Bodog Poker Pro Justin Bonomo. "As past Bodog qualifiers can attest to, winning a seat to the World Series Main Event through Bodog is much more than a chance to play for millions. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience Las Vegas in true Bodog style."

Players have plenty of options—from Cheap Seat qualifiers to low stakes Sit & Gos—to win their way to Las Vegas and compete for the biggest prize in poker. For just $1, or 100 Bodog Poker Points (PTS), players can start down their path towards winning one of Bodog's $12,000 Main Event prize packages awarded every Sunday in the Main Event Semifinal. This Sunday, May 3, at 4:35pm EST, four guaranteed packages are up for grabs, with numerous more being awarded throughout May and June.

Those players wanting to start further up the ladder can enter any one of the $27+$2 Main Event Quarterfinals that run daily at 9:00pm EST, or any of the twelve different Main Event Last Chance qualifiers held on the Sunday afternoon prior to the Semifinal for either $27+$2 or $54+$4.

Walking away from a Semifinal with one of Bodog's coveted World Series prize packages means more than just earning a seat to the $10,000 buy-in Main Event. Winners will instantly become members of the tight-knit group of poker players that make up Team Bodog. On top of the $10,000 buy-in, those donning the black and red of Team Bodog will also receive $2,000 for travel to and accommodation in Las Vegas, a stylish Bodog gear bag worth $400+, and access to VIP events and player's club evenings. Players that qualifying through Bodog.com will also be given the pro treatment as a dedicated team of handlers will be on-site to take care of their needs, allowing them to focus on what truly matters, their poker game.

Turning a few dollars into a few million is the dream of every online poker player that qualifies for the World Series Main Event. What caught fire in 2003 with Chris Moneymaker and his $2.5 million win continued last year with the excitement surrounding the November Nine final table and Peter Eastgate's incredible $9 million payday. Members of Team Bodog took home more than $1.8 million at last year's World Series, and with this year's field expected to equal or exceed that of the previous year, Bodog.com Poker is the cheapest and easiest way to find yourself competing for a coveted gold bracelet.

Learn how to qualify for the 2009 World Series of Poker* Main Event with Bodog.com Poker!