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Team Bodog Player Jose Severino Wins WPT Borgata Prelim Event
Team Bodog online poker player Jose "head2782" Severino won a preliminary event at the Borgata Poker Classic earlier this week. (Bodog Beat Image)
Although overshadowed by the WSOP Circuit event and the WPT World Poker Open in Tunica, the Borgata Winter Open has been plodding along for the last week or so, and Team Bodog online poker player Jose "head2782" Severino took down one of the preliminary events. Actually, he took down the one with possibly the most interesting format, the $300 buy-in Modified Shoot Out, or Event No. 8.
The modified shootout format is definitely a favorite of the Borgata tournament directors and usually turns up on schedules for events held there. A basic "shootout" format usually sends the winner of each table onto the next table and so on until a winner is decided. There's no moving from table to table, just a kind of Sit and Go tournament.
In the "modified" format, the top three players from each table in the qualifying rounds move on to a regular MTT tournament for the second round. Anyway, despite the definite strategical adjustments required to make it through the field with this kind of format, Severino managed to best a field of 550 entrants to leave with the $47,008 first-place prize.
The $8 makes a huge difference, trust us. That's enough for like a mocha choca latta ya-ya from Starbucks or something. Severino is not the only member of Team Bodog to win a preliminary tournament at a major event this year. Johnathan "UFPokerStar" Westra got $26,742 for winning the $500 event at the WSOP Circuit event in Tunica.
In fact, it looks like the whole Team Bodog "Gainesville" crew is looking to take 2008 by storm as Smith "nevertilt22" Collins and Jose "papadelpoker" de la Guardia have both cashed in other prelim events at the Borgata.
Stay tuned to the Beat for more updates on Team Bodog's progress as 2008 gets underway. If you want to join Team Bodog at a major poker tournament, then head over to Bodog and qualify online for a WPT, EPT event or the 2008 WSOP.