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Bodog pros flying high at Bodog Poker Open
When all was done and said a total of 377 players took part in the epic contest, but it was Bodog pros Evelyn Ng and Josh Arieh who came in second and third.
Outlasting the two Bodog pros was online player rusostreet who earned $26,062 for coming in first. Rusostreet will receive an automatic seat to the Bodog Poker Open's Main Event this Sunday as well as the distinction of winning the first BPO event.
Ng made $16,680 for coming in second while Arieh settled for $11,571 for third. The total prize pool was an impressive $94,250 with an extra $10,000 donated by Bodog to give the tournament considerable value.
The players on Team Bodog were not the only well-known poker players to get in on the action. Kevin "BeLOWaBOVe" Saul, "Annette_15" Obrestad, Thayer "THAY3R" Rasmussen, Eric "Rizen" Lynch, Jon "PearlJammer' Turner, Jared "TheWacoKid" Hamby and many more all came out to play in one of the biggest events ever held by Bodog.
It was a great start for the Bodog Poker Open and the excitement will be cranked up a notch with events held every day this week.
Event 2, $300+$25 six-handed, will kick off tonight at 8 p.m. (EST). Once again Bodog has made the tournament an exceptional bargain by adding $10,000 to the prize pool. There will be satellites held twice today so you still have a shot at qualifying.
The five preliminary events at the BPO are all leading up to the $500 buy-in BPO main event on Sunday with Bodog kicking in an astounding $25,000 to the prize pool.
Here are the complete final-table results:
| Player: | Prize: |
| rusostreet | $26,062 |
| Evelyn Ng | $16,680 |
| Josh Arieh | $11,571 |
| Dyzalot | $8,340 |
| crazyz987 | $6,255 |
| organoman | $4,691 |
| joncubs69 | $3,648 |
| Quahog Kid | $2,710 |
| croth8 | $1,772 |
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WPT Celebrity Invitational: A Nguyen-win situation
After three days of turbocharged freeroll poker, Van Nguyen's win officially gives her one more WPT title than her husband. "The Master" has come up short several times in the past, including his recent third-place finish at the World Poker Open in Tunica.
The WPT hosted 445 players at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles for the sixth annual freeroll event, featuring an all-star field of pros and celebrities and a $200,000 prize pool for the final table. The TV table on Monday evening was short a player after a double elimination on the TV bubble at the end of Day 2, leaving only five players to vie for the championship on camera.
Seat 1: Billy Baxter, $1,250,000
Seat 2: Van Nguyen, $760,000
Seat 3: Justin Marchand, $815,000
Seat 4: Ethan Ruby, $910,000
Seat 5: Elias Madias, $710,000
PokerListings.com celebrity tournament reporter Owen Laukkanen described the final table, whose most recognizable face was seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Billy Baxter, as "full of the kind of head-scratching play that would make any online gamer's head explode."
Medias was the first of the five to take his leave. With blinds up to $40,000-80,000 he moved all-in for his last $425,000 holding A-5. Marchand called from the small blind with 8-8, and the pair held up to eliminate Medias, who took home $10,000 for finishing in fifth place.
After pulling the trigger on Medias, Marchand was the next to be terminated. After flat-calling Nguyen's $250,000 bet before the flop, Marchand elected to move all-in when Nguyen bet out on the A-8-2 flop. Her call with A-8 was easy and left Marchand in desperate shape. The deck brought no help and he exited in fourth place with $15,000.
Knocking Marchand out gave Nguyen all the momentum she would need to close things out, beginning with her elimination of Baxter. The legend moved all-in before the flop for $460,000, just under four times the big blind. Nguyen called with J-7, which held up against Baxter's 9-4, sending him to the rail with a $20,000 cash.
The heads-up match was heavily stacked in Nguyen's favor as she entered with $3,695,000 in chips to Ruby's $750,000, and she took advantage of her lead by turning up the pressure. Ruby folded until he had enough to cover the big blind and then doubled up a few times to stay alive.
Nguyen finally dealt the coup de grace with K-4 against Ruby's Q-J. Ruby took home $50,000, while the champion claimed $100,000 for the win.
Owen Laukkanen's missives from the WPT Celebrity Invitational trenches are preserved for posterity in the Live Tournaments section.Visit PokerListings.com
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