[Bodog/Bovada/Ignition] Unofficial Thread

Cash games still filled with bots.

agree with everything you said except for the 1kaire. that is the colluders pararadise tourney, bigger stack helps shorter stack survive any way possible, for example raise their big blind, and somehow always lose the pot to them. They would also start limping and try to play multiway pots with the big blind who isn't part of their group, so less likely the big blind will win the pot close to the money. Avoid that tourney at all costs, it's a fun tourney and all, but expect to play against at least 4 or 5 of them sharing cards close to the money..

Do you download the hand histories and send them into support when there's obvious collusion, or does it fall on deaf ears?

I posted it earlier post, me and others have showed hand history. Me specifically, when I was cheated, I looked at hand history 24hrs later with hole cards. I was suspicious about several hands, but i looked at a bunch of it and I wrote down the players I felt like might be colluding from weird played hands. I was so happy to confirm I was cheated, one specific hand the big stack folded to a short stack's all in on the river, getting probably almost 7 to 1 on a call for a small % or his stack, and he folded a flush, 2 clubs his hand, 3 on board.
I was (and still am) broke af, trying to get moderators to suspend their accounts and wanted extra reward for my investigation.. i thought i would at least get credited the $1k i should have won, but nope, nothing, and those cheaters still get to play their favorite tourney 2 times a day. that was many months already, they probably thinking like, everyone has different ip addresses, so they cant be cheating. to poker players it's obviously cheating by the way those hands are played, but i think they're just so clueless on the poker side..

Damn

I havent played on ignition in a while but it looks like nothing has changed. The amount of flatting and back raising and 2 colluders/bots trying to squeeze you out of pots was too much so I quit playing there. Since then Ive played around 100k hands on ACR and Coin and have yet to see these types of plays.

The only good thing about ignition/bovada is that you can see opponents hands 24 hours later so you can confirm that you were cheated lol

Apologies if this post is in the wrong place... I'm just coming back to poker and looking to learn online before venturing out to low-stakes live poker room play at a nearby casino. All of this talk about bots and collusion have me wondering if I'm looking in the wrong place.

So, I set out to do as much research as I could using co-pilot and chatgpt. Co-pilot seemed to have the best overall answer. I had a long line of questioning to get to this point, but didn't post for length.

Do you all think the answer is pure BS, or does it seem on target? Thanks!

Co-Pilot�� So… is Ignition unsafe?

It’s not black‑and‑white.

Where Ignition is risky:

High‑stakes MTTs ($215–$1,050)

Late‑reg bubble spots

Mid/high‑stakes 6‑max cash (100NL+)

Zone poker (fast‑fold)

Where Ignition is still very playable:

Low‑stakes cash (10NL–50NL)

Full‑ring cash

Large‑field low‑buyin MTTs

Sit & Gos

Anonymous tables where recs dominate

Most cheating clusters target high ROI spots — not the soft, low‑stakes games where you’ll train.

�� For your goal : Ignition is still a strong option

Because:

Low‑stakes Ignition cash games are extremely soft

Bots prefer higher stakes and Zone

Collusion is mostly in high‑buyin MTTs, not $10–$30 MTTs

The play style (loose/passive/cally) mirrors Charles Town’s population

You don’t need HUDs to learn live‑game exploits

If you stay in the right lanes, Ignition is still one of the best training grounds for live low stakes.

Fairly new player to Ignition, about 2 months. I read the daily complaints about the site which definitely makes one think twice about playing here, but have not seen any complaints about crypto cashouts. Are the cashouts at least timely and something positive about Ignition?

Mtt schedule just keeps getting worse

They have been fast and reliable for some years now in my experience

Did the most recent update mess everything up for anyone else?

The action this week has been terrible. Not sure what others have observed. Nov/Dec were fairly busy. Jan through the first half of March were surprisingly active too. The last week has resembled what the weeks leading prior to all the format changes last October looked like. Pretty dead. Hopefully it isn't a sign to come because football season is over as is college basketball season.

guys do you play ignition in nevada? or is not allowed? , I can play but Im scared that ignition could close my account... Ive read playing ignition in nevada is not allowed.

it is not allowed. its been a while but when i played there on vacation they blocked me and told me to let them know when m not in the state and they reopen the account. they wont confiscate your money tho.

cashouts esp crypto is their top feature. honestly these days they process them within 5 min always.

Are you guys playing on mobile, PC browser, or PC client?

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I just ran a session on the client, new Windows 11 computer freshly started, almost nothing else running (only Firefox and jurojin) and it was constantly glitching. Before and after multiple restarts of the client.

Tables wouldn't open properly, action constantly froze for several seconds, tournament lobbies wouldn't open, tables would open to 59% and freeze, or just open as a black screen and freeze and be unclosable. I got sat out heads up in a sit and go for five hands...

Bananas

As if it's not tilting enough being forced to fold showdown value by the lunatics on this site who go all in with air in co-op pots, or bubble you in sit and goes with absurd plays etc. lol

I'm gonna try September.28's recommendation to load tables in a PC browser, but I don't think table management software is usable there, and the tables are probably gonna be too small on my laptop screen.

Ok, loaded up some sngs in pc browser

As expected, jurojin doesn't work with those

Tables automatically tile in pc browser, unlike mobile browser where you can only see once table at a time

Once you have 3 tables going, they are way too small on a laptop screen, even if you make the browser fullscreen (f11)

The connection is still glitchy there, with tables often kind of freezing for seconds. Like they will look normal, but suddenly fast forward several seconds.

At one point I had three tables going, and one of them just randomly froze while the other two were working fine. The frozen one even started the disconnect count, showing I was officially dc'd on that table, while I was steady playing hands on the other two.

Right now I'm one tabling, and along with regular "micro freezes", its now just frozen me for the past 60 seconds or so.

Stuff like this was happening with the client too, so these issues seem to be related to the general connection, and not the client/browser platforms.

Same issues here for a couple of days now.

I play there since a year or so and 3/4-tabling on my phone just radomly disconnects me from time to time. Some tables you'll get back as you left them, some tables are just gone and you sit at a new table alone. Tried other devices but happens on any of them.

Poker is dead at bovada in 2026. The player traffic is the worst it's been in the last decade. Very little recreational players and mostly bots/regs. Everyone is taking their bankroll to CoinPoker and ACR.

It is strange that this site just keeps lowering the rewards. First they slap you, then they spit on your shoes. No surprise the traffic is so low.

Anyone getting the 99% problem again?

This site is so fn greedy no wonder they're going under. Basically 0 rewards, 0 rakeback, bot galore, don't punish cheaters, don't refund players that have been cheated. If there weren't absolute whales playing on that site I'd never touch it .

sometimes, yeah

I routinely get the thing in MTTs where, upon joining, you have your first hand automatically folded despite the table loading within a second or two (when it fully loads). I also get one random table freezing up and snap folding all my hands while all other tables are fine. And it sometimes takes me a while to even notice, if I'm busy with 7 other tables. I think I sometimes miss multiple hands.

This site has a lot of dumb "features" to it, but it also contains a huge number of tasty American fish, so here we remain. They also give us a bit of money back by not rationally adjusting their prize pools, giving us significant overlay in many MTTs. This happens on Global Poker too, and occasionally on ACR. Not on WPT.

Agreed with Derrick Wong. Comparing 2016 to now is unrecognizable really.

I did well at the sngs January - 1st half of March to start this year. 2nd half of March a bit spotty, but there was at least very good traffic on the weekends with some good week days mixed in.

April the action is down dramatically. This is the worst I've seen traffic since the changes. If you're playing sngs, you're looking at a few casual players over the course of primetime hours which would be like 6 to 10 pm central. This is in stark contrast to late November and December where 100s filled pretty quickly actually and didn't see much of a drop off from that.

When they originally made the structure changes, what I noticed was the volume of casuals dip - but there would be a chunk of players who would stay on and play for a while and blow off what they had, as opposed to prior to the changes where the volume of randos was up but more one and dones. But the past couple weeks it's been quite dry, which the exception of Monday last week with the NCAA championship game.

My concern is 2 things. 1. No more football and March madness to drive the action. 2. The structure changes sending the message that they really just want a gambling site and no more skill at all in poker. I think at first that kept a number of casuals interested, but over time the fact that the structures are gimmicky wear on the player base and people lose interest and leave in droves. I think this could turn into another Party Poker ghost town.

I don't see any good options really if you're trying to make an income online in the USA. I hear good things about WPT gold, but it's regulated and you don't have multi tables. I mean let's be real. Look how Stars went from the online mecca to borderline unplayable. Just a matter of time before online poker on all these other sites would no longer be profitable.

The interest in poker isn't what it used to be in the USA imo. Less disposable income, more kids just wanting to sports bet and play video games, etc. Totally different culture