[Bodog/Bovada/Ignition] Unofficial Thread
This thread is to separate the Bovada-related comments and questions from the Official Bodog Support Thread, which is th
Am not able to log in either, but a streamer I follow is playing the 150 right as im typing this. Apparently only top 26 paid tonight so no max late reggers were able to make it into the 150 tonight and obviously didnt hit the guarantee.
He is probably fine as long as he doesn't have to relogin.
These stingy Ignition bastards better refund me my $109 entry or I'm pulling all my money out again.
I'm in the nightly 30k guaranteed MTT, playing on mobile, and the tournament Lobby wouldn't load, so I refreshed the page. Now I get an error when I try to log back into the site.The app won't open on Windows either. It briefly opens, then closes.There were loads of players sitting out by the way, before I got disconnected. Some of them showed they were sitting out, and others
Snap folders are the messed-up bots. I lost track of how many times I've seen them auto fold an entire MTT. Free money for us!
Screw those mini 3betting, mini chk-raising, make it 2x pre flop with obvly KK+ (maybe QQ/AK/55?) bot bastards!
Hi, thanks for your response. I've used the browser version on my phone, not on a pc. The browser version, at least on the phone, lacks hand history, replayer, ability to see all tables at once, table management and hotkey functionality, etc.I play sngs and mtts, no cash. If you have any suggestions for optimizing either the client or browser version, im all ears.By the way, on
I never play double ups anymore because of colluders, triple up most likely have them too, but i still play that occasionally because 3colluders out of 9 people feels better than 3 colluders out of 6 people, but I'd avoid if you can. Cant believe i'm saying this but ACR might have the best for sit and gos, where theres on demands ones that always runs kind of
Hi, thanks for your response. I've used the browser version on my phone, not on a pc. The browser version, at least on the phone, lacks hand history, replayer, ability to see all tables at once, table management and hotkey functionality, etc.I play sngs and mtts, no cash. If you have any suggestions for optimizing either the client or browser version, im all ears.By the way, on
Unplayable. The collusion in the DoNs is disgusting
Once someone is actually able to login post on here so we all know. Tonight is probably a gone night
Once someone is actually able to login post on here so we all know. Tonight is probably a gone night
I was able to get back in on mobile maybe 45 minutes ago or something. Got to the final two tables of nightly 30k guaranteed. At that point I didn't notice any sitting out players, seemed like all nine seats were live.
Snap folders are the messed-up bots. I lost track of how many times I've seen them auto fold an entire MTT. Free money for us!
Screw those mini 3betting, mini chk-raising, make it 2x pre flop with obvly KK+ (maybe QQ/AK/55?) bot bastards!
Heh. Tonight before I got disconnected, there were other players that were timing down to zero and folding every hand as well, but never showed as "sitting out" as is normally the case at least momentarily when people do that.
Heh. Tonight before I got disconnected, there were other players that were timing down to zero and folding every hand as well, but never showed as "sitting out" as is normally the case at least momentarily when people do that.
Those must be the "high tech" bots that use table ninja to auto engage their time banks lol!
The only ones I see never use their time banks and just auto fold even if it's limp pot to their big blinds while never showing the "sitting out" display
I never play double ups anymore because of colluders, triple up most likely have them too, but i still play that occasionally because 3colluders out of 9 people feels better than 3 colluders out of 6 people, but I'd avoid if you can. Cant believe i'm saying this but ACR might have the best for sit and gos, where theres on demands ones that always runs kind of
Wow. I haven't played in a serious way in a while, and didn't know it was this bad.
Unfortunately the rake for the triple-ups is twice as much as the rake for the double ups for some reason.
I recently saw a video of an ignition bot Farm on Twitter, and what seemed to be quite a few legitimate concerned commenters. Including Brian Stinger Hastings.
Then I saw another video of Chip dumping, with many people saying support refuses to tackle these things.
I also came across a YouTube video of a top online MTT Pro talking about massive Integrity issues on acr/wpn.
I miss pre black friday.
Are any of you in the six legal US states playing on the regulated sites (Stars etc)?
the mtts been dead. lots of overlay which is cool, but sad to see it. i really think the games been good mtt latley. the problem with all the team of late reggers who would get their own table and bank down, and pass a chip around on bubble. they fixed the late reg thing to where u get like sat at a waiting table, and made the timebanks way less. both helped with the issues going on .
and ever since that video came out, numbers fell off. but games do seem better as well.so maybe they cleared some the trash out, and ppl got scared from the video and left, so the fields are so small latley.
i dunno basically i wanna say i think the games been healthly lately in mtt at least.and the schedule post bdpo is pretty strong . when that video came out it was pretty sad but since then i feel like they did something. dont want the mtt to die cus if everything keeps overlaying and guarantees slowly drop its really all gonne be over. so tell ur friends come on out
It's crazy they let colluders run rampant, never refund or do anything about general cheating and obvious bots. Such a crooked site. I wish there was more competition so they'd have to get their act together to survive
It is a pros versus cons situation. Take a walk on the wild side and try the browser version on a pc at least once. Pro: given what you have already stated, you will be able to tile up to 4 tables and therefore not have overlap. Con: I don't know if any of the third party software to help with table management/hotkeys works on the browser version, you'd have to try or ask th
Nice, I appreciate the suggestions
the mtts been dead. lots of overlay which is cool, but sad to see it. i really think the games been good mtt latley. the problem with all the team of late reggers who would get their own table and bank down, and pass a chip around on bubble. they fixed the late reg thing to where u get like sat at a waiting table, and made the timebanks way less. both helped with the issues goi
I sent u a pm
I was also using the browser client for awhile while having issues with the software. I've been back on the software for several months now though since it's been fine for me.
I just played another ignition triple up in which there was clear collusion on the bubble. Midstack dumping to Short stack. Is it worth getting the hand history and reporting it to ignition?
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When I initially transitioned to ignition years ago, it took me a long time to adjust. The games are very different from stars and Full Tilt pre Black Friday, and merge/ cake Etc post black friday. The player pool is just different.
On one hand, it's filled with recreational fish. But they're like a sort of loose crazy type of fish. I play sngs/mtts with a lot of push fold, and the behavior of the player pool on ignition is significantly different from any site I've ever played on in this regard.
They also do a lot of wacky stuff post flop, and can put you in some maddening spots. Like weird min raises (often with shallow stacks in ICM-heavy situations) for example, which they will do with air/bottom pair/midpair/top pair/nuts, and you really have no idea which it is. Often even if they're fairly weak, they won't correctly fold to a raise/shove.
Because of the anonymity, it's really hard to get any type of read and know exactly which player type/tendency/hand strength you're dealing with. This can make navigating these spots super tricky and frustrating.
bovada/ignition is dead. No recreational players, lots of bots, and obvious player-player colluding made me take out most of my funds to play somewhere else.
bovada/ignition is dead. No recreational players, lots of bots, and obvious player-player colluding made me take out most of my funds to play somewhere else.
i exclusively play PLO, imo the games are extremely soft, i play 1/2 and 2.50/5, occasionally .50/1. If there are bots, they a extremely bad and very beatable
“Bots are exploitable”
“I cashed a tournament, so the collusion is gone”
“I’ve been playing here for 15 years and the games are great”
“They totally fixed the late reg bot farm issue” (complete lie)
Sure are a lot of third world shills appearing recently to show their support for a corrupt and dying site. What magical timing…
Accidentally deposited USDT via the Arbitrum network (yeah, I know—it was a mistake). I asked support to credit it to my account, but they said it’s unsupported and that they can’t do anything. As if it’s some impossible task, lol. They’re basically just keeping the money and hiding behind their rules instead of even trying to resolve it—while clearly having access to those funds.
In reality, if you check their internal wallet on Arbiscan, there are constant incoming and outgoing transactions. So they clearly do have access to the funds, but of course they have no intention of returning anything—they’d rather just keep it for themselves.
Accidentally deposited USDT via the Arbitrum network (yeah, I know—it was a mistake). I asked support to credit it to my account, but they said it’s unsupported and that they can’t do anything. As if it’s some impossible task, lol. They’re basically just keeping the money and hiding behind their rules instead of even trying to resolve it—whil
yeh that is def shitty. Its a grey area, cus they def tell u pls be careful only send ERC20.. I accidentily sent usdt instead of usdc on GG poker once, and i was able to email them and they charged me like a 12% fee to "retrieve" my deposit. i was very thankful they offered that, cus in the crypto world once its gone its gone. but i know what u mean u can see it on chain sitting there and someone is accessing that wallet so it makes it more annoying, but I wouldnt 100% put the blame on them. And im sure talking to bovada support about it will just make u more tilted, they prob dont know shit what ur even talking about. Anyways I hope it wasnt much $ and please be careful in the future. GL
Are there actually any differences in the top three rewards levels? Besides platinum+ eligible for birthday bonus., Titanium, Diamond and Diamond VIP all seem the same at 1,000 miles = $1 redemption rate and nothing else. Are there some hidden differences you know about not listed on their web page?
“Bots are exploitable”
“I cashed a tournament, so the collusion is gone”
“I’ve been playing here for 15 years and the games are great”
“They totally fixed the late reg bot farm issue” (complete lie)
Sure are a lot of third world shills appearing recently to show their support for a corrupt and dying site. What magical timing…
you are a phiken moron, i am in Australia, a poor third world country, where Ignition is the only viable option. Besides technical glitches, i have had zero problems depositing funds and withdrawing funds. I am printing money playing PLO on this site
also downloaded Coin poker but havent played on it yet
Are there actually any differences in the top three rewards levels? Besides platinum+ eligible for birthday bonus., Titanium, Diamond and Diamond VIP all seem the same at 1, 000 miles = $1 redemption rate and nothing else. Are there some hidden differences you know about not listed on their web page?EDIT:I'm a cash game player and one of the reasons I'm asking this question is
not sure but their points system /rakeback has always been shit. i think it avg to like 3% rakeback and then like a year ago they made it worse, and it comes to 1%. could be totally off though. basically i dont even look at the points or think about them they are so irrelevant.
XMarx is right that they've fixed the late reg angle shooter issue. I assume some of those accounts are still around, but they distribute them fairly across all tables. And many of those accounts are straight up gone; unless IkeTheGenius has another explanation for why the size of Ignition's MTT player pools dropped off by 10% overnight.
All these unregulated sites have problems, no doubt, but they're also filled with American fish and as such will be tremendous places to pay online poker for the foreseeable future. I beg Ike to play with the Euro regs on GG or wherever for a day or two. He may then realize that we US players actually have it incredibly good and he is simply mad that he does not win as much as he thinks he should.
Not only is there an overwhelmingly better fish/reg ratio on Iggy/Global/WPT than the international sites, but the average US reg is way worse than the average int'l reg. I play MTTs on Global Poker, and it is incredible how many thoroughly awful "regs" have completely crushing graphs. Then you look at them on ACR, and they break even at best.
In before I'm a third world shill or whatever dumb whine is coming in response. By the way, our stupid ass country features many aspects which are way more in common with those countries than developed ones.
Anyway, GTFO
XMarx is right that they've fixed the late reg angle shooter issue. I assume some of those accounts are still around, but they distribute them fairly across all tables. And many of those accounts are straight up gone; unless IkeTheGenius has another explanation for why the size of Ignition's MTT player pools dropped off by 10% overnight.All these unregulated sites have proble
yes for sure agree with everything you say. they def fixed that edge those late reg colluders had with getting multiple entire tables to themselves. so if that crew still plays even, they wont be nearly as profitable as they were and it not worth it cus of the new timebank and late reg ..and wait for open seat setup. sure theres prob some bots out there, but games are still good and beatable. I would rather play a bot than a team of colluders in shallow stack environment. I have been grinding mtt bovada schedule regularly for last 7-8 years, and this march was one of my best months ever. I feel like since that video was posted they did some security work, and game integrity fixes for the way their tables sat, and timebanks etc . Usually they try to sweep shit under the rug, but when it is overwhelming from ppl they seem to do something about it. that video went so viral even on non gambling stuff, they had to do something.
overall mtt structures and 1kaire bubble are much more organic and deeper play than 2 months ago it was miserable. you would get in money with like half the field having 2bb. Anyways i know theres lots of hate on them, but i feel like shits improving for now from that low 2-6 months ago.
