An on-line poker room and casino Bodog has published a press release this week, where it is revealed that the 3rd Bodog Poker Open will be held sometime during the Spring of 2009. The “12 Days of Poker” promotion, which will start on the 21st of December, doles out Bodog Poker Open III prize packages to the first 3 finishers in its Grand Finale.

The 12 Days of Poker will comprise a series of 45 tournaments. Its Grand Finale will be held on Thursday, on the 15th of January. A leader board will show the high scorers throughout all the 45 events, which take place from the 21st of December untill the 1st of January. The top 4 players will participate in the Grand Finale. The 5th through 100th place finishers will contend in a Semi-Final on Thursday, on the 8th of January, with the top eighteen players moving onto the Grand Finale. Moreover, 5 players who contended in at least 5 BPO III events will be selected by guess-work to take part into the final tournament.

The Bodog Poker Open prize package contains entry into every single one of the BPO III events. The amount of tournaments that BPO III will include has not been declared yet. In conformity with smth the statement of officials of the on-line poker site, the information announced about the 12 Days of Poker comprises the very first mention of the 3rd running of the Bodog Poker Open. The tournament series is slated for the Spring of 2009.

A groop of players gathered to Bodog’s felts in order to contend in the 1st and the 2nd Bodog Poker Opens. The sight has grown in popularity and is the site’s answer to PokerStars World Championship of On-line Poker (WCOOP)and the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). BPO II started in September.

The central event of BPO II was the greatest guaranteed tournament ever held on the on-line poker room at $300,000. Zubs1aa won it and he pocketed $75,000 for the win. He beat El Rubio, whose winnings come to $45,000. The other top players in the BPO II Main Event are cmizzles3687 (the 3rd place for $28,500), flipflopn (the 4th place for $21,000), Justin58 (the 5th place for $16,500), Hasn82 (the 6th place for $13,500), SHiFtYFiNGeR (the 7th place for $10,500), ArmyDrill (the 8th place for $6,600), and Justin Bonomo (the 9th place for $5,100). The ticket to this tournament costed a $500 and the Main Event get 477 players to take part in it.

Bonomo in the on-line poker world is known as ZeeJustin and he is a member of Team Bodog. Others who create the four-man crew include top female poker pro Evelyn Ng, David Williams, who is a bracelet winner of World Series of Poker, and “Survivor: China” opponent Jean-Robert Bellande. The on-line poker room is under the personality of founder Calvin Ayre, who recently dropped out of the organization.

The 12 Days of Poker starts with a $109 buy-in $3,000 added deep stack competition. The event awards 3,000 starting chips and blind levels continue for fifteen minutes each. The greatest tournament to run as part of the promotion is a $20,000 added event with a $109 buy-in, the second of the series. It will be held on Sunday, on the 21st of December at 4:00pm Eastern Time, 2 hours after the $3,000 added event. Bodog will prepare more than $100,000 into the 45 prize pools in all.

Bodog’s weekly guaranteed tournament brags about a $100,000 guarantee every Sunday. It regularly sees an overlay, which means that the guarantee transcends the real prize pool. The Sunday major costs $109 and begins at 4:00pm Eastern Time. There were 702 players last week, who contributed $29,800 to the prize pool.