The 54-year-old limousine company owner, who says he is a frequent gambler at the Borgata, said a poker room manager followed him into the restroom and informed him that patrons at his table were complaining about his body odor.

When he tried to re-take his seat at the table, he said a manager told him he couldn't play anymore and to leave. He said he asked for a free room to freshen up, and the casino refused.

He promptly filed a complaint about his treatment with the Casino Control Commission. His complaint will be reviewed to determine whether any state gambling laws or regulations were violated.

Wax obviously feels offended, despite his self-professed offensive body odor, and would like an apology from the casino for embarrassing him in front of his fellow poker players.

You know where you don't have to worry about smelling 440-pound guys who haven't showered in 17 hours or more, unless you are that guy? When you play online poker in the Bodog Poker room. Then the only thing you have to worry about is your own filth and we'd like to not dwell on that. So, we're done now.

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.

Alan “Bodog Ari” Engel currently sits in fifth place heading into the Borgata Final Table. (Bodog Beat Image)

The final table of $2,000 Borgata Deep Stack tournament goes down today with Bodog’s own Bodog Ari sitting in fifth place with $1,809,000 in chips.

The tournament, which guaranteed a $500,000 prize pool, ended up with a gigantic field of 775 that generated a $1,550,000 prize pool. First place will receive $395,095.

The final table with players’ places and chip counts is as follows:

1. Matthew Milliken Madison, $3,578,000
2. Kambiz Behbahani, $2,773,000
3. Harry Frankel, $2,112,000
4. Mark Reynolds, $1,866,000
5. Alan Engel, $1,809,000
6. Hamid Michael Hakami, $1,745,000
7. Eric Siegel, $1,004,000
8. Mihail Stoykov, $935,000
9. Steve Ryan, $800,000
10. Jin Chung, $785,000

We don’t recognize any of the other names at final table except Eric Seigel who has had several decent cashes in live games but no final tables since his fifth place finish at the 2007 Borgata Poker Open for $35,550.

Play will resumed at 11:00 a.m. ET so stay tuned to Bodog Beat for more updates.

And if you’re looking to qualify for any major live tournament through online satellites, just check out Bodog’s Player’s Choice qualifiers.