Unlike most other large online gaming companies, Bodog did not abandon the US market after the UIGEA. Calvin Ayre compares the Bodog brand licensing business model to the Virgin brand founded by Richard Branson. Instead, Bodog licenses its name to a third party company for the rights to run those sites under the Bodog brand name: the main licensee being the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, which runs the site. This was done in order to change the Bodog business model to one where Bodog has technically ceased direct operation of all gambling-related sites. Legal IssuesĪfter the passage of the UIGEA, the business was sold to the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group. The young and talented David Williams and Jean-Robert Bellande were also Team Bodog members. At the time of his victory in the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, Jamie Gold was also a member of Team Bodog. As of 2001, Team Bodog is made up of Evelyn Ng and Amanda Musumeci. Like other big sites, Bodog has a team of professional players representing the site. Bodog later attempted to diversify into a media company with bodogFight, a mixed-martial arts business, as well as record label Bodog Music, but those projects were shut down in 2008. Bodog Poker is the poker arm of the Bodog, which was founded in 1994 by Calvin Ayre as an online gambling company.

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