On a weekly basis, the player finishing on top of the Weekly TLB will get to face off against one of the Bodog Poker pros — David Williams, Evelyn Ng, Justin Bonomo, or Jean-Robert Bellande — in a heads-up freeroll match for $1,000. If the Bodog pro wins, the pot continues to grow until a Weekly TLB winner takes it all home.  In the past, the prizepool for this tournament has grown to as much as $16,000.

By finishing on top of the Monthly TLB, online poker players will be entered into a two-table six-handed Sit and Go on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 3pm ET.  The top two players from this tournament will each win a $12,000 Main Event prize package. If a player wins two or more months during the year, this player will win T$2000 for his subsequent wins and the second-place finisher that month will be invited to play in the finale.

The Yearly TLB winner will automatically receive a $12,000 Main Event Prize Package with second place receiving T$3,000 down through T$500 for 10th place. Players who finish from 11th to 100th place win entry to the T$5,000 "Yearly TLB Freeroll" to be hosted on Sunday, January 24th, 2010, at 3:30pm ET.

To top and of the different Tournament Leader Boards and win prizes, players need to earn points. Every time they play in a tournament, the number of entrants, the buy-in and their finishing rank determine exactly how these points are distributed and where they'll end up on the board. Roughly who gets points? The top 20% of finishers per tournament.

To see all of the details, head over to the Tournament Leader Board info page and get started on your way up the tables.

The "Monthly TLB Winners Freeroll" was a twelve-player tournament comprised of every player who topped the Monthly TLB during 2008.  Online poker players "alienface" and "ParliGod" finished in the top two spots in this event, earning a $12,000 WSOP Prize Package each for their accomplishment and will now be sporting the black and red as members of Team Bodog during the 2009 WSOP Main Event.

In the "Yearly TLB Freeroll", T$12,000 was up for grabs as the top 100 players on Bodog's 2008 Yearly Tournament Leader Board battled it out for the top prize of T$1,750. Online poker player "rstewart13aggie" emerged victorious to claim that prize from a tough final table that included well-known Bodog regulars Johnathan "UFPokerStar" Westra and "manderbutt."

Here are the full results from that final table:

1. rstewart13aggie – T$1,750
2. DeRose84 – T$1,250
3. UFPokerStar – T$1,100
4. mr dynomite – T$1,000
5. manderbutt – T$900
6. 011jp – T$800
7. Tex3268 – T$700
8. Kevin Blackwood – T$600
9. boondock11 – T$500

To find out how you can qualify for these amazing freerolls, check out Bodog Poker's Tournament Leader Board and then head over to the poker tournament schedule and see when your next chance is to start working your way up to the top.

The Yearly TLB Freeroll is open to every player who finished from fourth down to 100th place in the final standings on the 2008 Yearly TLB. Up for grabs for the top 27 finishers in the freeroll is their share of T$12,000 to buy into tournaments in the Bodog Poker room in 2009. The winner receives T$1,750, enough to buy into 16 of the weekly $100,000 Guaranteed tournaments. Second place receives T$1,250 and then the prizes work their way down to $109 for 27th place, or enough for one $100k buy-in.

The top three on the Yearly TLB have already received their prizes. For coming out on top, online poker player "alienface" won T$5,450, which will buy him into every $100k Guaranteed event for the next year, or a whole lot of smaller event. Coming in second overall was "whatever877," who received T$3,000 for his accomplishment, followed by "WillyNilly" in third for T$2,000.

It's never too early to start racking up points for a run at the Weekly, Monthly and especially the Yearly TLB and your shot at these kinds of prizes. Check out the poker tournament schedule and get started on your way up the rankings and the chance to win free entry in online poker tournaments in the Bodog Poker room. Winners of the Weekly TLB even get a chance to take on a Bodog pro for $1,000 in cash, so get in on the action now.

This time around Bodog regular "illshiz" – the November 10 – 16 weekly TLB winner – took on Bodog poker pro Justin Bonomo for the grand prize of $5,000. After a back and forth match, "illshiz" was able to capture his first TLB Weekly victory and that nice payday. This brings Bonomo's record in TLB matches to 6 wins and 3 losses.

Weekly TLB winners get to play a heads-up match against one of the Bodog poker pros for at least $1,000. Each week a pro wins that money rolls over to the next week for the following weekly winner to take a shot at.

If you focus on the Weekly TLB competition you'll also be working your way up the Monthly TLB. So, what’s the big deal about topping the Monthly Leader Board? Well, the 12 Monthly TLB Winners in 2008 will all get to play in a two-table six-handed Sit-and-Go in early 2009 where the top two players win a $12,000 prize package to a major live event of their choice. If a player wins two or more months throughout the year, this player would win T$2000 for his 2nd win and the 2nd place finisher that month will be invited to play in the finale.

Check out Bodog’s Tournament Leader Board and make sure to get in on this last chance to get a seat in that coveted two-table freeroll.

The back and forth match lasted over 80 hands and at one point Westra was down to only 295 chips, but doubled up quickly and kept chipping away at Evy.  Westra remained patient and finally got it to pay off when he entered a hand holding Q-9 on a board of 9-7-Q.  As Evy was holding Q-7, all the money went in the middle in a hurry and Westra's hand held up, giving him the chip lead.

That hand crippled Evy down to 800 chips and she could never recover. The match ended 5 hands later when Evy pushed all in with A-4 and was called and outdrawn by Westra's K-J.  The board came Q-9-10-9-3 giving him the straight, the match and the $6,000.

Climb your way up the Bodog Poker TLB for weekly chances to play poker pros for cash and win tons of other great TLB prizes for topping the monthly and yearly TLB.

Westra gets the opportunity to play for this impressive cash prize because he racked up the most points in the Bodog Poker room for the week and the Bodog pros have successfully defended their honor for five straight weeks, rolling the normal $1,000 jackpot over and over to this point. This is the largest the TLB heads-up prize has reached so far this year.

The match takes place tonight at 7pm ET in teh Bodog Poker room under the Sit and Go Tournament Lobby at the "TLB Heads-Up Challenge" table.

Ng is just one of the Bodog poker pros who have a winning percentage in these matches at 32 -21, so Westra will have an uphill battle to take home that $6,000. In fact, the pros have an overall winning percentage of 52 – 33.

Here's a quick breakdown of each pro's precentages:

Climb your way up the Bodog Poker TLB for weekly chances to play poker pros for cash and win tons of other great TLB prizes for topping the monthly and yearly TLB.

While Evy's poker chops are wicked as always, "WillyNilly" should be glad he's not facing her in a Guitar Hero contest. While you may need fortuitous turn or river cards to help you get a bit lucky against Evy in poker, we've personally seen just how brutally she destroys the opposition in Guitar Hero….still makes us shudder. In fact, Evy just was given the priviledge of heading to NeverSoft HQ to preview the new Guitar Hero: World Tour.

Anyway, we digress. Needless to say, "WillyNilly" will have his work cut out for him tonight and if you want to watch him fight for his $4k, then head over to the Bodog Poker room at 7pm ET and look under the "Sit and Go Tournament" tab for the table "TLB Heads-Up Challenge."

Climb your way up the Bodog Poker TLB for weekly chances to play poker pros for cash and win tons of other great TLB prizes for topping the monthly and yearly TLB.

Bonomo defeated David Benefield in the first round and will be going up against celebrity TV poker show host Phil Gordon for a tough second round match.

After a his first round match against Francis Cagney (we should introduce him to Lacey Jones), Wiliams is going up against Andrew Rosskamm in the second round.

Other notables going into the second round include Alex Jacob, Carlos Mortenson, the Andys (both Black and Bloch), Dario Minieri, Erick Lindgren, Gavin Griffin, JC Tran, Gavin Smith, John Juanda, Sammy Farha, Theo Tran….you know what, there's a bunch of them. See the whole list at PokerNews.com.

Of course, all Bodog pros have plenty of practice at heads-up poker as the Bodog Tournament Leader Board winner from each week gets to to take a crack at them over the virtual felt. So, get in on some online poker tournament action and work your way up the Bodog weekly tournament leader board and get a free shot at one of Bodog's poker pros and some serious dough and see if you've got what it takes.

New-ish Team Bodog poker pro Justin "zeejustin" Bonomo will be playing in his second Tournament Leader Board Heads-Up battle this evening at 7 p.m. EST. Bonomo will face the TLB winner for the week of May 19-25, "alienface," with $1,000 on the line. In his first heads-up match, Bonomo won handily against "fitzfitz," so he technically has a perfect TLB record right now, albeit 1-0.

If you want to watch Bonomo put his perfect TLB record to the test (see how that works), then log into the Bodog software (if you don't have it, get it here) and go to the Sit n Go Lobby and look for the "TLB Heads-Up Challenge" table.

If you want to take a crack at Bonomo over the virtual felt, then get in on some online poker tournament action and work your way up the Bodog weekly tournament leader board and get a free crack at one of Bodog's poker pros and some serious dough.