TonySoprano takes down the Bodog Blogger II Series TOC

14 of us suited up with several prop bets on the line in addition to the t$2900 prize pool. The final TOC structure allowed for a lot of play. We didn't lose our 1st player until after first break. It took 2 hrs to get to the final nine with the money bubble busting after the 3rd break. It took approx 5 hrs to get down to our winner.



Here are your Bodog Series II Tournament of Champions final payouts:



Congrats to all the players who cashed in the final and thanks to everyone who participated in the series. Special congratulations to Chad on his win. I was unable to pass on his 10-1 odds and bet max prior to the start of the TOC. I also bet max on the last longer prop between me and CarnePicante.

A BIG thanks goes to Nadia for pulling this all together, Bodog for pumping up the prize pool every week and adding the final tournament prizes. Thanks to BuddyDankRadio for covering the series.

The Bodonkey will take a well deserved rest.

gg all!

Bodog Blogger Tournament Series II Final is set

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the series and made the final tournament.

Here are your TOC Qualifiers in no particular order:
smokkee
MiamiDon
TonySoprano
salex77
Newinnov
APOSEC72
nzgreen
CEMfromMD
CarnePicante
wilwonka
FishEater2000
StB (via “Last Chance”)
Numenor80 (via “Last Chance”)
ICB (via “Last Chance”)

Here’s what we’re playing for.

Final Tournament:
Entry: Free for the Top 15% on the TLB and the top 3 Last Chance finishers.
Grand Prize: T$2,000 + $100 casino credit
2nd place: T$500
3rd place: T$250
4th place: T$100
5th place: T$50

The structure in the Bodog TOC will be even better than the weekly tournaments. We’ll start with 5000 chips and blind levels will increase every 20 minutes.

I decided to play the mOOk and ended up 2nd, I Lost HU to “TheBlueHeron” who I’m totally unfamiliar with. I’m not a reg in the mOOkie and probably played it less than 10x this year.

This hand pretty much decided it.


I was a shorty after this and held on for a while but couldn’t get a double up. I finally shoved A-rag into his button raise and he snap called with JJ.

GL to everyone in Thursday night’s Bodog TOC, get your prop bets in now.

TOC and "Last Chance" Qualifiers, TonySoprano binks another Bodonkey tournament

Here are your Tournament of Champion Qualifiers based on their leaderboard finish. The top 15% of the total field made it. Players 1-11 of the entire 75 participant field are already in.

TOC Qualifiers:
smokkee
MiamiDon
TonySoprano
salex77
Newinnov
APOSEC72
nzgreen
CEMfromMD
CarnePicante
wilwonka
FishEater2000

"Last Chance" Qualifiers:
PokahDave
lightning36
23skidoo
Columbo777
cbags
donkette
Bayne_S
SnappyLC
NumbBono
BuddyDank
MoFo_69
ICrushBloggers
MemphisMojo
BrainMc
scottc25
Riggstad
yestbay1
RecessRampage2
wislim
TRexRoar
Numenor80
wvwolfie
oossuuu754
pokerpeaker
Mondogarage
raisydaisy22
Sed The Icon
StB

Both tournaments are up in the lobby. Register now if you're on either of these lists.

Last night, TonySoprano binked another Bodonkey win placing him 3rd on the overall leader board. Make sure you take special note of his latest "knowledge drop", pure *gold*



Best of luck to everyone playing in tonight's "Last Chance" tournament. The top 3 finishers tonight are in Thursday night's TOC. And don't forget to make your prop bets prior to the TOC.

"Last Chance" Tonight!

Last Chance Tournament
Entry: Free to all players who participated in 3 or more qualifying tournaments and are not in the top 15% of TLB finishers.
Prizes: Top 3 finishers win a TOC entry.

Check the Bodonkey Series II leaderboard.

TonySoprano can eat a bag of d***s

We started with 27 players Thursday night and T$109 on my head. Apparently some bloggers were preoccupied in Vegas.

I hoped to claim my own bounty once again and finished at the final table taking a couple players out along the way.

But, it wasn't meant to be.

I ran AKo into WilWonka's KK when we were on the final table bubble. A shorty shoved, WilWonka smooth called and I shoved to isolate. Obv, Wonka called and i was left with just crumbs when i couldn't bink a 3 outer. Once moved to the final table i pushed the rest of my measly stack in and got 3 callers. TonySoprano shoved to isolate and hit TP against my garbage hand and i was out.

Freakin fishee is killing the Cereus network too.



TonySoprano and WilWonka went HU with TS taking it down and most likely locking up a seat to the TOC with that win.

here are your final payouts for Thursday, 12/11/08:

Check the leaderboard for updates.

Next Tuesday, 12/16 is the final tournament of the series then the "Last Chance" Tournament on Wednesday 12/17 where everyone who has played at least 3 tournaments during the Bodog Blogger Series II is eligible (inc. 3 for 14 poker expert on the outside looking in).

GL to everyone trying to make their way into the TOC next Thursday, 12/18.

Bodog interviews Smokkee.

the difference is "Drinkability"

Our friend Iggy sat down with a T$109 bounty and 44 players came out to take a shot at stacking his chips. He went fairly deep and almost final tabled finishing 14th.

In Iggy's bustout hand, there was a small raise ahead of me. Iggy and I both smooth called and i flopped the nizzles. I was hoping my overshove on the flop would look weak and Nate would also put his chips in there but he let it go. Iggy showed down AhQh.

Here's a screenshot of the hand.



vgg Iggy, thanks for playing this week. you're welcome back anytime.

I took Iggy's chips to the final table and won a few races to get 3 handed. Unfortunately, I ran outta steam and finished 3rd. MiamiDon took it down and shoots up the leaderboard. Don has locked up his seat into the TOC December 18th with this win.



Thursday night i try to capture my own bounty a 2nd time. Register early!

Make sure you pick your teams for the 2008 Blogger Donkey Race at the Venetian this Saturday. It's only $15 to enter and you don't need to be present or play the Venetian tournament to be eligible. Deadline to enter is 11:59pm Thursday 12/11.

Bodog also announced their "12 Days of Christmas" promo which starts Sunday December 21st with thousands added to the prize pools. For instance, 20k is added to Event 2 on Sunday 12/21.

12 Bodonkeys have run their course with 4 left

After last night's Bodog Blogger Series II tournament, we're left with 3 tourneys plus the "Last Chance" tournament on Wednesday, December 17th. Anyone who's played at least 3 Bodonkeys in this series is eligible to play the "Last Chance" tourney which will place the top 3 finishers in the Bodog TOC on December 18th.

31 players registered to play last night and I never really got much going. i just picked up chips whenever i found a decent spot. then, when we got short-handed down to two tables there was either a raise or shove (or both) ahead of me and i was completely card dead. somehow, i limped into the final table as the shortest stack and went out a few hands in when it was folded to me in the SB and the next shortest stack was to my left in the BB. i jammed with Q9o to try and pick up the blinds/antes but, the BB woke up with AQo and that was it for me.

Here are your final payouts:



The poker blogger prop bets are up, goto "Other Sports/Poker".

Next week we have two bounties lined up. One will be placed on a well-known and respected blogger who's never played the Bodonkey before and the other is placed on the only poker blogger to win his own bounty.

Bodog Blogger Series II prop bets are up!

Bodog Blogger Series II poker blogger props have been posted. Go to Sports/Other Sports/Poker to view the props offered. Keep an eye on the odds as they may move based on how the rest of the series progresses.

FYI - for anyone who might be considering placing a bet on smok'. i'm gonna miss the Dec 16th tourney, Tina and I will be at the Lakers game at Staples Center (vs. the Knicks) and i'm gonna arrive late to the TOC on Dec 18th. We're flying into Charlotte, NC to visit Tina's family (flight arrives @ 8:30pm ET in Charlotte). We start with 5000 chips in the TOC so, i'm not too worried about blinding down to crumbs but, there's always that possibility we could get delayed or miss our connecting flight in Dallas.

prop bets on Bodog Blogger II series to be offered

Bodog is getting together a list of odds to be placed on your favorite or least favorite bloggers.

Bodog Blogger Series II poker blogger props should be posted sometime this week. They'll be listed in "Other Sports/Poker" in Bodog's sports book.

There will be TOC last longer and Tournament Leaderboard props in addition to what the winning hand will be.

stay tuned...

5 Bodog Blogger Tournaments left + "Last Chance"

We're 2/3rd's of the way thru our Bodog Blogger Series II which started on Oct 28th with 10 tournaments in the books. Tonight we head down the home stretch with 5 tourneys left and the "Last Chance" tournament scheduled for Wed, December 17th. The top 3 finishers of the "Last Chance" tournament get a seat into the Dec 18th TOC and you only need to have played in 3 previous Bodog Blogger Series II tournaments to qualify for the "Last Chance".

Consider these next 5 tournaments + the "Last Chance" your last ditch effort to get into the TOC. It's not too late to win your way in. And to this point it appears the TOC will have less than 2 full tables. We've had 69 players participate with the top 15% of the leaderboard (10 players) winning their way in. If the TOC were to be set today, we'd have 13 players, 10 from the top 15% of the leaderboard plus 3 from the "Last Chance" tournament Dec 17th.

There's still time to get into the December 18th TOC.

Bodog Blogger Series II Leaderboard

December 18th TOC Final Prizes:
Entry: Free for the Top 15% on the TLB and the top 3 Last Chance finishers.
Grand Prize: T$2,000 + $100 casino credit
2nd place: T$500
3rd place: T$250
4th place: T$100
5th place: T$50

Bodonkey w/Mashed Potatoes & Gravy in the books

Sat down to Thursday's Bodonkey with the hopes, it wouldn't take too long. less than 3 hours later.



thanks to all who registered to play on one of the absolute best holidays of the year IMO.

GL surviving the biggest shopping day of the year.

PokahDave snuffs out Rizen’s ghost for T$109 and Salex77 wins Tue

Unfortunately, Rizen had a family emergency come up at the last minute and couldn’t play the Bodonkey.

This didn’t prevent the buzzards from buzzing. The living pokah bloggah legacy took the Gigli cuz I guess he has no mojo without a bounty on him even tho he was seated at Rizen’s table from the get go. Wawfuls spewed like no tomorrow to the grateful recipients at his table.

thanksgiving Wawfuls style babeee

Me? I ended up getting shortstacked after the 1st break losing a flip then built my stack back up winning consecutive flips only to lose the bulk of my stack in a blind vs. blind battle against the self-proclaimed poker expert. Apparently, Q7s (the "ghey tourist") is the hand you want to defend your blind with and get all your chips in the middle when covered. My AQo went down in flames and I wasn’t able to recover.

Cmitch made an appearance and was also seated at Rizen’s table. Somehow he got donkeypunched just before Rizen went bustooooo. gg Cmitch!

Such is the standard for bloggah games.

As mentioned earlier, PokahDave scooped Rizen's zombie bounty.

Here are your final payouts:




A BIG thanks to BuddyDank radio and the rest of the crew for covering this series. They're doing a kick ass job (or getting shit-faced on air) as expected.

Rizen will be back to play another date with bounty on melon at least one more time, hopefully many more times. Cuz we all luv melons with T$109 esp a guy whose made multiple WSOP Final Tables and scooped the ‘Stars Sunday Million Guarantee. BTW, Rizen is posting pxfactor videos from his Sunday Million win on his blog for a limited time free of charge. Check it out!

Hope all is well with Rizen and his family.

It will be bizness at usual on Thanksgiving Day with the Bodonkey running at 9:05pm ET. This might be the smallest field in the series. It will be a battle of the degens with a shot at moving up a bunch of spots on the Bodonkey Series II Leaderboard.

Register now!

Joes vs Poker Pro Eric "Rizen" Lynch v2.0

"Rizen" is back Tuesday, November 25th to avenge his defeat from the last Bodonkey he sat down to play. Eric will have a bounty of T$109 on him this time around. He'll also award the blonkeroo that takes him out a signed copy of his book "Winning Tournaments - One Hand at at Time".



Tuesday, November 25th @ 9:05ET

9:05pm ET: Bodonkey II
Buy-in: $10 + $1
2500 Starting Chips / 15 min blind levels
Prize Pool will be distributed as per Bodog's standard multi-table payout table.

BONUS PRIZES:
1st place: T$109 ($100K Buy-in) + $25 Casino Credit
2nd place: T$75
3rd place: T$50
3 bubble players: T$11 (entry refunded)

Register early!

From breakeven poker bloggah legacy to bubble boy

Wawfuls got off to a good start putting the hurt to Columbo early then getting the best of the rest of his table before ending up at the final table. Unfortunately, he ran outta steam and was unable to accomplish what has only been done once before, claim his own bounty. But still a valiant effort when you got guys coming at you with guns a blazing then showing down the mightee 4-9s.

Wawfuls lost a big pot prior to his final hand. He looked down at a baby pair, pocket 4’s and shipped his remaining stack into the middle. Three of the six remaining players called and Wawfuls 4-4 could not out run PokahDave’s Big Slick. PokahDave claimed the T$109 bounty placed on Wawful’s who finished 6th with 5 money spots being paid. Dave went on to finish 2nd.



MiamiDon walked away the winner last night after putting on a clinic when they got down to 4 players and is one of the select few to win back2back blogger tournaments after winning the previous night’s mOOkie. VGG Don!

Here were the final payouts for last night’s Bodonkey:



Still no Bodonkey ITM cash (or points finish) for the self proclaimed “poker expert” with 8 tournaments in the books. Can it really be blamed on bad luck after 8 whiffs?

Next Tuesday, November 25th our friend “Rizen” will be back with a T$109 bounty and is offering an autographed copy of his book “Winning Poker Tournaments – One Hand at a Time” to whoever claims the last of his chips.

Register early!

Check here for tournament leaderboard updates.

Get in the head of the delusional Wawfuls

Read Wawfuls thoughts on his legacy here.

T$109 Bounty on Wawfuls Tonight @ 9:05pm ET

9:05pm ET: Bodonkey II
Buy-in: $10 + $1
2500 Starting Chips / 15 min blind levels
Prize Pool will be distributed as per Bodog's standard multi-table payout table.

BONUS PRIZES:
1st place: T$109 ($100K Buy-in) + $25 Casino Credit
2nd place: T$75
3rd place: T$50
3 bubble players: T$11 (entry refunded)

Fishing for T$

34 fishee's suited up for Tuesday's Bodonkey II. There was a bit of confusion about Wawfuls bounty which is scheduled for Thursday. But, that didn't prevent players from donkey punching him anyway. Wawfuls went on rail rant after getting his 88 cracked by A8 all-in pf. It wasn't even sOoted.

It's def more fun to be the donkeypuncher than the donkeypunchee. wasn't me tho.

I managed to work my way into the final table with a middle stack and eventually got 3-handed with each of us taking the chip lead at some point. I finally succumbed to the mighteee 10-2sOoted and finished 3rd.

Here are your final payouts for Tuesday:



Skidoo took down his 2nd Bodonkey of series II.

A self-proclaimed poker expert hasn't even cashed in this series after playing every event. Go figure.

Register for this Thursday's Bodonkament and scoop T$109 if you can bust Wawfuls.

Bodonkey II leaderboard has been updated.

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we've got 10 tournaments left in the Bodonkey Series II. 7th in the series is tonight @ 9:05 ET and Bo Derek turns 52 on Thursday, 11/20/08.



...which happens to land on the same day we're placing a T$109 bounty on Wawfuls' donkey dome. Bo Derek has aged nicely IMO. Wawfuls, not so much.

9:05pm ET: Bodonkey II

Buy-in: $10 + $1
2500 Starting Chips / 15 min blind levels
Prize Pool will be distributed as per Bodog's standard multi-table payout table.

BONUS PRIZES:

1st place: T$109 ($100K Buy-in) + $25 Casino Credit
2nd place: T$75
3rd place: T$50
3 bubble players: T$11 (entry refunded)

"Evybabee" gets all her money in good twice and still goes broke

welcome to the poker hell that is bloggahments Evy.



Evy flopped a set of 10's against SnappyLC's KK on a J-T-x board and it all went in. A King hits the river and Evy was crippled. She managed to double up in a coin flip later with pocket 8s then later shoved into TonySoprano's (aka Cracknaces aka Chad aka i deleted my blog again this wk) pf raise with AhKh. Chad snap called with the mightee Ac2c and Evy's big slick was flushed when a bunch of clubs hit the board.

vgg Evy



I was lucky enough to be seated with Evy and only played a couple of small pots with her but I was unlucky enough to get my AA cracked by Chad's pocket 8's. That left me with crumbs and I went out shortly after.

Here were the final payouts for Thursday's Bodonkey:

We've got more bounties coming up the next couple of weeks and there's still plenty of time to fight your way into the TOC December 18th. Remember only your top 8 scores count in the Bodog Blogger Series II.

Joes vs Poker Pro "Evybabee" tonight

Knockout Bodog Pro Evelyn Ng tonight and win T$109



9:05pm ET: Bodonkey II
Buy-in: $10 + $1
2500 Starting Chips / 15 min blind levels
Prize Pool will be distributed as per Bodog's standard multi-table payout table.

BONUS PRIZES:
1st place: T$109 ($100K Buy-in) + $25 Casino Credit
2nd place: T$75
3rd place: T$50
3 bubble players: T$11 (entry refunded)

Worst poker player takes it down

I completely whiffed in the Bodonkey and November Nine Special Tuesday night but surely the sad part of last night's story was the worst poker player took down Tuesday's edition of the Bodonkey.

Here were the payouts:



Wawfuls jumped out to a big lead early and continued sucking on the poker god's teet when they got 3-handed to take it down.

gg the rest of us

Check the online poker blogger leaderboard for the Bodog Series II for updates. This Thursday 11/13 we have a T$109 bounty on Evelyn Ng's pretty little head.

Register early!