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Once banned from PokerStars, Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo, is apparently back at the popular online poker room. A few years back, Bonomo was first exposed at PartyPoker for registering as many as six online poker accounts and registering all six names in the same tournament. Shortly after, PokerStars revealed that he had done the same on their site. Consequently, both big-name online poker sites restricted him from playing at their online poker rooms.

But Bonomo’s dishonesty was not all that it was cracked up to be. He’s actually a great poker player, both online and off, and has since worked hard to smooth over his bad reputation and show the poker community that he’s not such a bad guy. In the past three years, Bonomo has steered clear of any misconduct and focused on overcoming the stigma that was attached to his name and re-establishing his career in professional poker.

After his exclusion at PartyPoker and PokerStars, Bonomo turned his attention to live tournaments, many of which he has gone on to win or cash big. In 2007 he placed 4th at the WSOP $2,000 No-Limit event and 2nd in the $3,000 HORSE WSOP Circuit. He went on to place 2nd in the 2008 WSOP $5,000 Mixed Hold ‘em event and has been around the block, placing at other big events such as the WPT Doyle Brunson North American Poker Classic in 2007. Bodog Poker saw the potential in Bonomo as a poker player and eventually signed him as a Team Bodog Pro.

What makes it clear that Bonomo is that he started his poker career at the mere age of 16 after emerging from the strategy game, “Magic: The Gathering,” like many other professional poker players (e.g. David Williams). He placed 4th in the 2005 French Open at only 19 years of age and had made hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time he reached 21. By 23, he was poker millionaire. The irresponsible kid that once tried to cheat the online poker system has grown into a diligent and respectable professional, so much so that PokerStars saw fit to lift the ban on his online poker presence.

Even though the current recession is affecting the land based casinos it seems that the online poker rooms are not being affected, at least not in a negative way. According to the numbers at PokerScout.com online poker is continuing to grow by about 30% per year. Not all of the poker rooms on the internet are doing great though, there are a couple of big rooms that are starting to see their numbers drop but this is most probably not due to the recession.

The biggest poker room is still PokerStars who recently celebrated getting their 20th Millionth customer and they are growing more and more for each day. They are now also allowed to accept players coming from Italy on their Italian site PokerStars.it.

FullTilt Poker is the second largest poker room and they are also growing on a daily basis just like the Cake Poker Network and the Entraction Network. Entraction has grown a lot lately and this is mainly due to the fact that the poker rooms that were banned from the iPoker Network, NoIQPoker.com and CarlosPoker.com moved over to Entraction. Cake Poker is growing a lot since they have taken over all the poker rooms from the old Gold Chip Network that is no longer around. But it has to be said that Cake Poker are probably also growing due to the fact that they are offering some really innovative promotions with their Gold Card system at Cake Poker and Gold Chip Rewards.

On the losing side of things we find poker rooms like Bodog Poker, Everest Poker and Betfair Poker. Bodog Poker is the biggest loser on the list and this is probably due to the fact that they have been having a lot of problems paying their US customers as they have had their bank accounts in the US confiscated several times. It also didn’t help that they lost a law suit involving their domain name and had to change it from Bodog.com to NewBodog.com and finally to BodogLife.com which is their current name.

If you take a look at the list of winners from the last week FullTilt Poker is the biggest winner when it comes to player traffic. Last Sunday they broke their own record when they hit 18.565 players sitting at the cash game tables at the same time. Even the IPN Network (Boss Media) had a good week and managed to break their old record when they had 4509 players playing at the same time at the cash game tables.

It will be interesting to see if the recession will ever get to online poker or if it will keep on going strong. It has been a couple of years now that people have been saying that the interest for online poker will die out but it has yet to happen.

This coming Sunday is going to be a big day for all the soccer fans across the world; Super Bowl XLIII or the World championship of American Football at the Tampa, FL is going to start along with a whole world of festivities. So, it is time for all the poker fans to try out their hands at a game or two while the pre-game shows are being telecasted. Keeping his in mind, Bodog Poker is launching its own poker tournaments where everybody stands a chance of winning great prizes. There will be three different events clubbed along with the festivities of Super Bowl.

The week long tournament will be flagged on the evening of 27th at 9:34PM Eastern Time. The spirit of Super Bowl will be celebrated on the Media day with the “Media Day Combo Qualifier”. The $27+$2 buy in of the combo qualifier will move on to the two special tournaments. These two tournaments will be part of the Super Bowl Weekend schedule. Two seats at the combo qualifier are guaranteed for the two winners, while one more combo qualifier seat is to be added for every $244 prize pool.

The winners of the previous rounds will then be competing in the Bodog organized Super Bowl during the Weekend slate. There is more on the offing on Saturday which will provide the players a chance to get in to the “Bodog “Flight Club”. Now comes the biggest event; the $125+$10 buy in during the Special Flight Club Semifinal and it is a seat at the American Poker Tour to be held at Punta del Esta that is on the offing for the winner. More seats will be offered for each pack of 48 players joining the tournament.

Bodog is offering a $6000 package for the winner to take part in one of the most rapidly growing tournaments around the world. Bodog is pumping in $2300 for accommodation and travel along with the LAPT Punta del Este tournament, which has a buy in of $3700. At least one seat is guaranteed irrespective of the number of players taking part in the tournament that starts at 4PM Eastern Time.

This Sunday afternoon when the whole world will be glued on to their T.V. sets watching the Pre-game analysis, you can just satiate your hunger of poker by taking a dig at the Bodog’s $100, 00 guaranteed events. There will be a little more of the sweet money at the “$100+$9” Super Bowl Special because Bodog has pumped in $20,000 in the pool. 4PM Eastern time is when the “Super Bowl Sunday” kicks off.

Bodog has given you an opportunity to celebrate the Super Bowl this weekend irrespective of being a fan of American Football. So, just log on to the website of Bodog to be in the middle of the hullabaloo and pocket some cool bucks this weekend.  Dont forget to enter the Bodog Poker referral number 2429054 when you create your account for a nice $550 bonus when you make your first deposit.