First place at the inaugural Bodog Poker Open Main Event went to Shawn “phatcat” Luman earning him $76,280.

Online poker players came out last night to the $500 buy-in which generated the largest prize pool in Bodog Poker history at just over $280,000. With a 596 entrant field winning wasn’t a cake walk.

At the final table sat Michael “_TheFinisher_” Berra (2nd - $45,768), Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (3rd - $29,138.96), Stuart “zpaceman” Taylor (4th - 21,358.40), Bodog regular “CK3″ (5th - 16,781.60), up-and-coming online poker player “Anbessa” (6th - $13,730.40), Brian “PSP_addict” Bauer (8th - $7,933.12) and Eric “Eeman2004″ Revak (9th - $5,187.04).

This event was unique and valuable event for online poker players and over the course of the event drew out over 18,000 to join in the fun. High caliber players also came out to participate such as Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad, Garret “GBecks” Beckman, Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson, Smith “nevertilt22″ Collins and Kevin “beLOWaBOVe” Saul