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Alan "BodogAri" Engel placed third at the Borgata $500,000 Guaranteed poker tournament. (Bodog Beat Image)

The largest guaranteed poker tournament in Atlantic City history wrapped up last night at the Borgata and Bodog online poker player Alan "BodogAri" Engel finished in third place.

As we mentioned yesterday, the $2,150 buy-in No Limit Holdem tournament began on Sunday and offered a guaranteed a prize pool of $500,000. However, an amazing 775 players came out bumping the prize pool up over $1.5 million.

The details of the final table and what happened when and even who won how much are scarce and incomplete. The guys over at LivePokerRadio.com live-blogged as much as they could but switched to their radio gig when it got down to the final few players and we are not about to sit through a radio broadcast to try and figure out the big hands and who busted with what and how much they made for busting out when they did. If you want to do that, please feel free. Leave the details in the comments.

Anyway, what we were able to glean from different sources was the order of the top nine and what first place paid out. Here's what we got:

1. Schuyler Twaddle - $395,000
2. Weiwen Liang
3. Alan "BodogAri" Engel
4. Mark Reynolds
5. John Racener
6. Eric Seigel
7. Weiwen Liang
8. Richard Marshall
9. Larry Goldstein

These smaller tournaments are filling up the gaps in the poker tournament circuit schedule until the 2008 WSOP gets underway in just a few weeks (holy crap, it it really that time again already?). If you don't have a seat in the largest tournament series in the world, then head over to Bodog and check out the 2008 WSOP online poker qualifiers.

Charles Simmons writes poker news for the Bodog Beat.