Poker Pro Evelyn Ng Joins Bodog

Online gaming giant adds a rising star and plans on adding 700-plus Internet players to its roster for WSOP

March 31, 2006

By BodogNation Contributing Writers

Evelyn Ng, former poker dealer turned professional player, has recently joined the Bodog.com Poker Team. As a top professional, Ng will team with poker pros David Williams and Josh Arieh online at the Bodog poker tables and at Bodog events around the world.

With her stunning looks and aggressive play, Ng has proven over and over again that she is a formidable force on the professional poker circuit. She made an immediate impact when she first appeared on the poker scene at the 2003 inaugural World Poker Tour Ladies Night event. She finished in second place, and has since gone on to an extremely successful career, including a recent 11th-place finish at the WPT Borgota Poker Open, earning just under $65,000.

Ng was a participant in the Calvin Ayre Wild Card Poker tournament, which was filmed in Costa Rica and will air Saturday nights on a major U.S. cable network beginning April 15. At this year's WSOP, Ng will compete among the growing ranks of Team Bodog.

“I am very excited to be joining my good friends David Williams and Josh Arieh at Bodog. Calvin Ayre and everyone with Bodog have made me feel very welcome. I am positive that the Bodog lifestyle will suit me very well, and I look forward to being a representative for them,” Ng said.

Last year, 70 players represented Bodog at the World Series of Poker. This year, the digital entertainment giant is sending more than 700 of its online players to the various WSOP tournaments, which run from June 25-Aug. 10. The players are being selected in numerous ways.

There are hundreds of online tournaments and special promotions at Bodog for poker players looking to find entry into the prestigious WSOP. Not only are there daily qualifier tournaments to compete in, but there is an All-Star Program. The Bodog Poker community will nominate five of its own players to go to the WSOP. In the style of American Idol, each week votes are counted and the All-Star contenders with the least votes are eliminated from the running. Eventually only five of the 25 nominees will be left standing. Those five All-Stars will each receive a $10,000 seat in the WSOP Main Event.

Players who vote will be eligible for a special freeroll tournament after the All-Stars are selected. That freeroll tournament will determine another of the 700-plus members of Team Bodog. The winner will receive a WSOP preliminary event package worth $2,500.

With its WSOP Semifinals Guaranteed tournaments, Bodog Poker will send, at minimum, the top three finishers to poker's showcase in Las Vegas. There are also cheap seats, sit-and-gos, and other promotions that will be used to round out the Team Bodog roster.

PHOTO: Evelyn Ng brings beauty and savvy to the poker table (BodogNation photo).