Bodog 12K WSOP Main Event + 5K Cash Freeroll June 12th

Just wanted to make members aware of this since Bodog doesn't do a great job sometimes of promoting some good offers.

Bodog Casino is giving away a $12,000 Main Event Prize Package and over $5,000 in cash in our Main Event Freeroll, taking place on June 12th at 3:15pm ET. To qualify, all you have to do is play PLAY 21 HANDS OF BLACKJACK IN THE CASINO AT A MINIMUM $5 BET PER HAND

http://www.bodog.eu/play-now/wsop-freeroll/optin.html

$5 per hand...bit steep

but maybe you win while playing blackjack?
Noticed Titan has something similiar to this but I think it just expired today (was $50 wagered in total)

Total blackjack donk here, have played maybe twice so I don't think I'd be coming out ahead lol.

Awesome! I still have $65 casino chips from when the cardschat tourneys awarded casino bonuses. Hopefully, I won't lose 13 hands in a row lol.

Bodog Casino is giving away a $12,000 Main Event Prize Package and over $5,000 in cash in our Main Event Freeroll, taking place on June 12th at 3:15pm ET. To qualify, all you have to do is play PLAY 21 HANDS OF BLACKJACK IN THE CASINO AT A MINIMUM $5 BET PER HAND


When say "our" as in whos freeroll? As in everyone/anyone who plays at bodog? What sort of amount of players would you expect here?

I'd be willing to deposit for this, sure should be able to breakeven at least with some basic BJ stratergy. I used to have a roulette/blackjack problem, not sure if it's wise, then again the freeroll is like quite unreal.

Sorry, copied/pasted promotion so our was meaning Bodog, so yeah, everyone who plays at Bodog who also plays the requisite BJ hands, but you MUST also enter yourself into the promotion prior to playing the BJ hands. It is a pretty tight time frame, only one week from now, so it will be interesting to see how many qualify for the freeroll. But sure cheap way to get into a chance to play the Main Event, especially if you know how to play BJ.

I missed the "$5,000 in cash" part. Guessing the freeroll will have typical payout structure of any tourney..... so the $5K part is enticing.
Played blackjack a gazillion times in my youth... might have to give this a go.

dont do it.....bodog will make money on this promo
if you do it be prepared to lose 10-20 bucks or more ...do not try to win it back if you are down ... make your (21) 5 dollar bets and quit..period...exclamation point.......and if u are lucky enuf to break even or win -- do not play anymore unless u get another promo....u cant beat online bj

This is probably because you can't beat live blackjack without counting cards.

You are kidding right? I would encourage people to do it, by using well known basic strategy the house edge is generally less than 0.5%. As close to any breakeven game that a casino offers. Better chance than just about anything to end up the $17,000 freeroll being Free, or actually making a few dollars (or only losing a couple bucks). You post as if it is 21 spins on a slot machine.

ok ..everyone post how much they win or lose in this promo...

very tempted by this...hmmm wonder how many runners it'll get

Yah I'm wondering the same. Even if I lose a bit in BJ.... it'll just be what I'd consider my 'entry fee' for the tourney & I'm guessing that it'd still be +ev

I had some casino chips from a cardschat private tournament last year that awarded the top 3 bonus casino chips. I had $65 in casino because I had run that up luckboxing keno. Then I didn't play casino until last night.

I played 21 hands of blackjack doing $5 per hand and came out $45 ahead. Then I played a few more hands, less than 40 total, and stopped when I was up $20. Early on the dealer got blackjack 2 hands in a row and I was thinking fml rigged omg lolbad rofls, but went on a nice run. One hand the dealer had a lot of cards showing to make 20 - like 3 aces, 2 twos, 2 threes and a 7 lol.

Today, I get an email saying I won a ticket for the main event freeroll. Only 12 players registered Sunday! Yesterday there were 6. 1st place wins 12k package for main event and $5000 is spread amongst 2nd thru 21st places.

Good luck to anyone that qualifies for June 12I haven't done a wsop main event tourney since Full Tilt's $1 massive fields of like 45k players. Ah, I miss you ftp and all of my frozen money

I saw this promo yesterday. I would definately do it since I love blackjack and obviousally poker. All I need now is a roll on Bodog and to not turn 21 2 weeks after the start of the main event. =(

Nice one!!
Anyone know the deadline for this? (when do you need to have those played by?)
Also, with Bodog Casino - can you use the $'s from your Bodog poker acc't. for the Casino games? (not sure if I've ever even played Bodog Casino games before, I know I've played Blackjack on a couple/few sites, just not sure if Bodog was one of them (might've been... I think I can recall gettin' a free $10 on Bodog Casino or something like that??). Do you have to transfer funds from one account to the other, is it one & the same or what?
tks for the info. (I want to play in this event!!) (I could play this one & the $100K on same day!!... bink both of them as long as JoeShowdown isn't on my tables... obv.)

going to try to get in this one :-)

anyone wanna teach me blackjack? XD

It's not that difficult really. I'm sure you can find a ton of blackjack 'fun' games online (doesn't microsoft have a blackjack game?.. or something like a 'free pass' at Pogo).

Only 45 players registered right now Still that is 44 more than I would like, but this is looking like the easiest way for any of us to bink a 12k wsop main event package!

Poker Orifice - I guess the deadline is Saturday. Casino chips are different that poker money. You might be able to convert it. Congrats on winning that $162 100k ticket bro! You played great and made an awesome call when I shoved jackhigh into your bb and you snapped with TT with 4 players left. Looking forward to railing you on the final table and having you transfer a penny to me on pokerstars where my balance is a sad 0.00 lol

Hey Joe how long was it before you got the email saying you go a ticket?

Just click Casino at the top of CardsChat and play their BlackJack?

Unfortunately, I don't have the funds on Bodog to give this a try. I would have to basically win the first blackjack hand or I wouldn't have enough in the account to continue.

I tried multiple times to get to the bodog casino but their servers failed me.
Seems I wont be able to blow my bodog roll / bink that ticket.

I clicked on link but it just comes up with bodog home page. I can't see promo. Is this just for USA?

Maybe I should switch to BJ. After the required 21 hands I had $115, Decided to quit if I dropped down to the original $100. I got it up to $165 and decided to quit if I fell to $150. Two hands later, I'm down to $150 and I cashed out. This took all of ten minutes. So....bottom line...I won $50 and got a seat in an awesome freeroll.

I did have a bit of a problem finding out how to register on the bodog site. So I googled 'bodog, wsop, blackjack promo' and found out how to register.

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The edge on blackjack is only about -1 to -2% if you play good basic strategy. So 21 hands * $5 / hand = $105 wagered = average loss of about $2 per player.

They are banking on it hooking more people into playing in their online casino, and more often. It's probably about neutral EV for them overall, basically an advertising cost.

A few hours. I played at night and then saw the email the next morning and registered in the bodog software. 85 players registered now. I figure they will get about 200 players hoping to donk their way to the wsop. Eric Baldwin is registered. I heard him say in interviews he used to play on Bodog, but I wonder why he used his real name instead of basebaldy. It's probably just a poser.

WEC, thanks for this post. I wonder how many people have entered because of this post.
I would have never known and I play on Bodog atleast one a week, usually more often.
Took me about 5 mins and I qualified losing $5. Obviously well worth it considering the prize pool. Maybe I can donk my way into some cash!

I'm pretty sure you can. One thing Bodog is really good about is telephone support--why don't you give them a call? The number is listed in theit lobby.

Thank you Cardschat!!! Just played the 21 hands, finishing at $122.50 from $65.00. Waiting on the email now.

Wow online blackjack blows. Down almost $50 after 22 hands lol.

hmmm still havnt recieved an email. just sent bodog an email, hopefully this gets sorted

Lobby of tournament 320273 Main Event freeroll says one winner of $12,000 package. When I click on tournament details it says when there are 5-5000 players, only 1 person wins. It states nothing about the $5000 freeroll payouts. 271 players registered. 15:15 EST start time.