Bodog Poker Open III Set for Late April
The Bodog Poker Open III will kick off in a matter of days, and this year’s edition will include a few new wrinkles. The 26 tournaments that will make up BPO III are being divided into three separate series, each with a different buy-in tier, giving players even more choices this year. The schedule features ten elite, high-stakes “championship” events, eight “mid-stakes” tourneys, and eight low buy-in “mini-bounty” tourneys designed for players of more modest bankrolls. For the championship series, Bodog has decided to forego the traditional guarantees found with events elsewhere, and will instead donate a generous $75,000 to the championship prize pool, with $30,000 earmarked for the BPO III main event alone. The total prize pool for BPO III promises to top $280,000.
The series gets underway on April 26th, continuing through to the championship main event on May 3rd. Last year’s Bodog Poker Open II drew a total of 3,539 runners in 14 events, awarding well over $700,000 in prize money overall, with the winner of the main event taking home $75,000. As with the two previous Bodog Poker Opens, the schedule is wall-to-wall hold'em
– including no-limit, pot-limit, fixed-limit, turbo, and short-handed. The inexpensive bounty tournaments will give players a chance to test their poker chops against Bodog pros Evelyn Ng, Jean-Robert Bellande, David Williams and Justin Bonomo.
Qualifiers for all BPO III events are currently running on Bodog Poker. The complete schedule for BPO III is below (all events are texas holdem):
Championship Series
Event 1: No-limit, with rebuys
Date: April 26th
Buy-in: $50+$5
Prize pool: $5,000 added
Event 2: No-limit, four-max
Date: April 26th
Buy-in: $200+$15
Prize pool: $5,000 added
Event 3: No-limit
Date: April 27th
Buy-in: $250+$20
Prize pool: $5,000 added
Event 4: No-limit, six-handed
Date: April 28th
Buy-in: $300+$25
Prize pool: $5,000 added
Event 5: No-limit, with rebuys
Date: April 29th
Buy-in: $100+$10
Prize pool: $5,000 added
Event 6: Pot-limit
Date: April 30th
Buy-in: $150+$13
Prize pool: $5,000 added
Event 7: Fixed-limit
Date: May 1st
Buy-in: $120+$10
Prize pool: $5,000 added
Event 8: No-limit, turbo
Date: May 2nd
Buy-in: $100+$9
Prize pool: $5,000 added
Event 9: No-limit, one rebuy, one add-on
Date: May 3rd
Buy-in: $50+$5
Prize pool: $5,000 added
Event 10: No-limit main event
Date: May 3rd
Buy-in: $470+$30
Prize pool: $30,000 added
Mid-Stakes Series
Kickoff Tournament: No-limit
Date: April 26th
Buy-in: $100+$9
Guarantee: $20,000
Mid-Stakes Rebuy: No-limit
Date: April 27th
Buy-in: $20+$2
Guarantee: $15,000
Mid-Stakes Turbo: No-limit
Date: April 28th
Buy-in: $55+$5
Guarantee: $15,000
Mid-Stakes 6-Handed: No-limit
Date: April 29th
Buy-in: $55+$5
Guarantee: $15,000
Mid-Stakes 4-Handed: Fixed-limit
Date: April 30th
Buy-in: $69+$6
Guarantee: $15,000
Mid-Stakes Pot-Limit Rebuy
Date: May 1st
Buy-in: $30+$3
Guarantee: $15,000
Mid-Stakes Cubed: No-limit, one rebuy, one add-on
Date: May 2nd
Buy-in: $30+$3
Guarantee: $15,000
Mid-Main Event: No-limit
Date: May 3rd
Buy-in: $150+$13
Guarantee: $30,000
Mini-Bounty Series
Bounty Low Roller: No-limit
Date: April 26th
Buy-in: $10+$1
Guarantee: $10,000
Bounty 6-Handed Turbo: No-limit
Date: April 27th
Buy-in: $30+$3
Guarantee: $10,000
Bounty Pot-Limit
Date: April 28th
Buy-in: $20+$2
Guarantee: $5,000
Bounty Limit Turbo: Fixed-limit
Date: April 29th
Buy-in: $15+$1.50
Guarantee: $5,000
Bounty No-Limit Hold'em
Date: April 30th
Buy-in: $25+$2.50
Guarantee: $10,000
Bounty 4-Handed: No-limit
Date: May 1st
Buy-in: $33+$3
Guarantee: $5,000
Bounty No-Limit Turbo
Date: May 2nd
Buy-in: $22+$2
Guarantee: $5,000
Mini-Main Event: No-limit
Date: May 3rd
Buy-in: $46+$4
Guarantee: $15,000
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