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Bellande Joins Team Bodog PokerMon, Mar 3rd, 2008 @ 12:00am Bodog recently announced that professional poker player and reality television star Jean-Robert Bellande has signed on as the newest member of Team Bodog. The accomplished cardplayer, who recently appeared as a contestant on CBS's hit show Survivor: China, will join Team Bodog pros David Williams, Josh Arieh and Evelyn Ng at the Bodog online poker tables and at major televised tournaments. Bellande debuted this weekend when he competed against the world's best at the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, where he was edged out by Sam Grizzle in an opening-round matchup (Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson won the event; click here for related article). Bellande will also represent Team Bodog at this summer's World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Earning the nickname "Action Bob" for his fast, aggressive play at the poker table, Bellande has been described as "the ultimate psychological warrior" as he taunts his competitors with calculated trash talk, a skill that has helped him amass nearly $800,000 in tournament winnings. A regular on popular poker television shows, Bellande recently competed on NBC's Poker After Dark and was also featured on the World Poker Tour's Bad Boys of Poker in 2005. His televised final tables include the 2005 WSOP Circuit Event at the Rio and the 2005 U.S. Poker Championship in Atlantic City, N.J. As a poker professional, Bellande has traveled the world to compete in major poker tournaments, a lifestyle suited to his international upbringing. Born in New York City to Creole parents, Bellande was raised in Asia. At the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles where he promoted some of Hollywood's hottest nightclubs and even owned his own Los Angeles hot spot, Sky Sushi. "I'm completely thrilled to be on Team Bodog and to join my friends Josh, David and Evy," said Bellande on signing with Bodog. "I'm planning to make a lot of noise in 2008 for myself and Bodog, starting with the National Heads-Up Poker Championship this weekend and at the WSOP this summer." Online poker players looking to secure a spot alongside Bellande and the rest of Team Bodog at the 2008 WSOP Main Event can do so now at the Bodog Poker Room, where Bodog is guaranteeing at least three $12,000 Main Event prize packages weekly through its "Main Event Semifinal" tournaments. Each Main Event Semifinal will award at least one $12,000 Main Event prize package, which includes the $10,000 buy-in to the main event, $2,000 for travel expenses, loads of Team Bodog gear and the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience Las Vegas in total Bodog style, including meeting the Bodog Girls and much, much more. Click here for more information about the WSOP promotion.
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HHPT Co-Sponsors Bayou Poker Challenge Ladies Event Dec. 20 The HighHeelsPokerTour (HHPT), the first all women's poker tour launched on the East coast, will wrap up their 2009 schedule at Harrah's New Orleans on December 20th where they will co-sponsor the Ladies Event #14 no-limit Hold'em at 12 pm.
OPPAGA Reports on Florida's Online Poker Options Given that UIGEA permits individual states to regulate online poker, the Florida Legislature's Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) published a report this week presenting three options available to Florida State lawmakers in order to protect consumers from unlawful internet poker: regulate it, prohibit it, or carry on with the status quo pending federal legislation.
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WSOP Main Event Champ Joe Cada to Appear on Letterman The poker world will receive some late night attention tonight as "The Kid" Joe Cada, the youngest champion in the four decade history of the World Series of Poker Main Event, takes a seat next to embattled talk show host David Letterman.
First Korean Champ of Asia Pacific Poker Tour Crowned in Cebu Another stop on the Asia Pacific Poker Tour is in the books, this time it's the APPT Cebu in the Philippines, and for the very first time a Korean player has come out on top.
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