Surprisingly enough, the big names were bounced early before people could even consider talking about cash—Greg Raymer and Moneymaker were out before the 900 and less cash cutoff. Even event host Vicky Coren didn’t make it to day two and left the tournament in 580th place winning just $1,026.1.

When day two started there were just 214 players left of the original 6,219. Leading the way was player CONOW with 1.3 million+ chips. The other players rounding out the top ten dropped early in the second day, and when the final table was set in Level 39, CONOW wasn’t far from the top:

Seat 1: Juancesan with 6,367,644 in chips

Seat 2: CONOW with 5,385,645 in chips

Seat 3: aaaaaaaa with 11,465,030 in chips

Seat 4: colonelkosta with 8,717,052 in chips

Seat 5: fabstinho with 9,934,493 in chips

Seat 6: kidwhowon with 2,212,841 in chips

Seat 7: GypsieChris with 5,626,806 in chips

Seat 8: Shazmeister with 2,513,180 in chips

Seat 9: hustla16 with 9,967,309 in chips

With blinds at 50,000/100,000 and the ante at 12,500, there were mostly small hands played until the final three. After a half hour of deliberation, an agreement was come to for their prize money based on chip count: hustla16 would win $386,533.73 since he had the bulk of the chips with just over 47 million, colonelkosta settled for $355,000 and Juancesan took home $270,000. Each player agreed that $60,000 would be left for the winner of the tournament.

Five hands later colonelkosta went all in with a pair of kings, but hustla16 bumped him with two pair kings and sixes. Less than ten hands later, hustla16 was crowned the champion after beating Juancesan with ace high. Hustla16 took the additional $60,000 set aside for the winner to their prize money total to $446,533.73.

The top table finished as follows:

1st: hustla16—$446,533.73

2nd: Juancesan—$270,000.00

3rd: colonelkosta—$355,000.00

4th: aaaaaaaa—$171,022.51

5th: fabstinho—$130,599.01

6th: CONOW—$99,504.01

7th: GypsieChris—$68,409.01

8th: kidwhowon—$37,314.01

9th : Shazmeister—$24,098.63

“The Bodog brand is celebrating its 15-year anniversary this year — an absolutely remarkable pedigree and testament to its enduring values in an industry that quickly kills off mediocrity. The brand has gone through quite an evolution during that long history, and Bodog Europe is looking forward to carrying the torch forward for at least another 15 years of world-class customer service, unbeatable promotions, and, above all — fun.”

Now, in my humble opinion the gameplay on Bodog is hit or miss. I go on there to do some sports betting sure, but since Bodog has such a loyal community which always seems to be growing, once in a while you’ll get people in the poker rooms that have no business being there.  However, there aren’t many websites that hold the clout that Bodog does. I mean, 15 year anniversary for a gambling website? That’s close to the beginning of the consumer-focused Internet. It’s in the same ranks as Google and eBay.

The biggest perk of this deal is that Canadians can now join into Bodog’s awesome Sunday tournament. Every single Sunday, log in for a $150+$12 tournament with $100,000 prize money guarantee. One-hundred thousand dollars is pretty serious cash, and with Canadian players now eligible to grab that prize money the odds definitely sway a bit.

It’s not like that makes it any less worth playing. If you aren’t a BS player you should take a crack at it.

Also, here’s a nice little promotion from Bodog.com that’ll get new players from everywhere: deposit any amount up to $500 and Bodog will match it up to 110 percent. Now that’s a promotion.