Casino News: The first online casino to award seats for WSOP 2009

BodogLife.com (Antigua-based) turned out to be the first online casino to reward seats to next year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event last week via its Mini Series promotion.
The Kahnawake-licensed site’s Mini Series contains 25 tournaments via its poker sub-site that reflected the hold ’em events scheduled at the WSOP 2008 just with buy-ins that were one percent of those in Las Vegas. The final one in the series was tournament which only invited players could participate, took place after the Mini Series’ Main Event and rewarded three seats to next year’s festival of poker in Las Vegas worth $12,000 each.
Three online players, ‘pokerfanx789’, ‘dudix’ and ‘Boswan’, gave a good account of 24 other participants to be the victor to get VIP packages, which contains their $10,000 Main Event buy-in together with voyage and accommodation expenses.
'Team Bodog players had an remarkable run at this year's WSOP in Las Vegas and we're already getting ready for next summer by rewarding three seats to the 2009 Main Event,' said Alwyn Morris, Chief Executive Officer for owners Morris Mohawk Gaming Group.
“The three winners of our Mini Series are going to have the opportunity to experience something exclusive in Las Vegas as they race for a shot at poker celebrity and millions of dollars.'
From 27 players participating to win the three seats, BodogLife.com announced that 18 were from semi-final finishers with five from a wild-card drawing of those that had participated in no less than three Mini Series events. The last four participants won their way into the event by lastting on top of the Mini Series leader board.

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