Carolina Teen to Go Head-to-Head Against Top Pro for $12K Pot in the Bodog.com Poker RoomJune 21, 2006A 19-year-old from North Carolina takes his shot at poker glory Thursday night when he faces Josh Arieh, one of the top players in the world, for $12,000 in the Bodog.com Poker Room. Justin Hendricks of Chapel Hill, N.C., qualified to play a Team Bodog poker pro by finishing atop the online poker site's Tournament Leader Board last week. Each day, Bodog.com poker players compete against each other to be the king of the board. The player who has the most points at the end of every week earns a prize of a $1,000 heads-up Sit-N-Go against Josh Arieh, David Williams or Evelyn Ng, professional players who are sponsored exclusively by Bodog. If the pro wins the $1,000 game (which typically lasts between five and 25 minutes), the pot rolls over into the next week. A pro has won for 11 consecutive weeks, setting the stage for Hendricks to possibly clean up. He faces Arieh, who has totaled more than $4 million in career earnings. Bodog.com, a favorite site for online poker players, has seen incredible popularity and success with its Tournament Leader Board, a feature that allows players in all Bodog tournaments to win weekly and monthly prizes when they come out on top. Other players who finish in the Top 10 receive a varying amount of tournament credits for use in the World Series of Poker/World Poker Tour semifinals or the $100K Sunday Guaranteed Tournament at Bodog.com. The player who finishes on top of the board at the end of the month wins a weekend at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, and entry into the legendary Bellagio $1,000 Saturday night tournament. More tournament credits are available for the other players who finish in the monthly Top 20. Bet on Team Bodog winning a 2007 Gold Bracelet! "Our point system is very popular for its flexibility in our tournaments, now our players can win even more when they come out on top," said Calvin Ayre, Bodog.com Founder and CEO. "Playing heads up against our pros is great training for the WSOP." Bodog Poker continues to be an industry leader with features like the Tournament Leader Board, an aggressive tournament schedule offering $2.5 million in guarantees a month - including a weekly $100,000 guaranteed tourney - and WPT and WSOP qualifiers. Bodog.com has qualified hundreds of players for the World Series of Poker, which begins Sunday at Harrah's Rio Casino in Las Vegas. The WSOP Main Event, poker's showcase event, runs from July 28-August 10 and will feature 400 Bodog Poker players. Check out http://www.bodog.com/poker/ for the complete Bodog Poker experience. For more on the prizes http://www.bodog.com/promotions/poker/tournament-leader-board/. For the Bodog Tournament Leader Board http://www.bodog.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board.jsp. For poker news and profiles of Team Bodog Poker players, visit the 5 th Street section of the online magazine Bodog Nation at http://www.bodognation.com/poker-news/. About Bodog.com Bodog.com, located in San Jose, Costa Rica, is federally licensed by the Costa Rican and UK governments. Bodog.com Founder and CEO Calvin Ayre, recognized as a pioneer of online gambling and a world authority on branding in the digital entertainment industry, was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine's best-selling "Billionaires" issue in March 2006. Bodog.com was ranked #1 for the most visited site in Hitwise's "Gambling Sports Betting" category among other US websites. Bodog.com, valued at over US $1 billion and ranked in the Power 10 online companies by eGaming Review, processed $7 billion in wagers in 2005. The Bodog.com Marketing Conference, www.bodogconference.com, will take place at the Wynn Las Vegas, July 23-26, 2006, attracting the leaders of the online gambling industry. Bodog Entertainment Group also includes a music label, Bodog Music, an online magazine, BodogNation, a television production unit and further properties coming soon. For more information, contact Media Relations at 1-866-892-3371, or pr@bodog.com Contact: Susan Mainzer 1-866-892-3371 smainzer@riptown.com --- by Bodog PR at offshorepokerroom.com on June 21, 2006
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