What started off as an idea to build the ultimate poker table for those Tuesday night games with the guys -- has grown into a business that now finds itself in the middle of the poker craze with one of the industry's biggest names in entertainment & poker.

California beach volleyball players Jon Thompson & Bill Sigler build poker tables for a living

When Bodog needed specially branded Bodog Poker tables built for events like their pre-VMA parties and Calvin Ayre's Wild Card Poker tournament, VPO Diamond series answered the bell.

In the August issue of Volleyball Magazine, learn how budding entrepreneurs Jon "JT" Thompson (a former IPFW men's volleyball standout & current beach player) and Bill Sigler partnered with Bodog to turn VPO Diamond Series -- a company that went from building poker tables for home tournaments to building Bodog branded tables for celebrity events and nationally televised poker tournaments -- into an overnight success.

Read Carrie Bowers' article, "Poker Tables and Peanut Butter Jelly Time", and see how an order for 14 poker tables from Bodog, a then-unknown online gambling company, helped to propel this business into super stardom. (Adobe Reader required.)