[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
I play games quite often and can recommend
. It's a great site, an innovative casino game where you guide a chicken through a dangerous path, so you should enjoy it. However, the path is full of hidden traps, and you have to decide when to withdraw your winnings before your chicken gets fried.
Bovada is the only site I have seen that often has worse players the higher the stakes. Maybe not at the nosebleeds like 10/20, but I am convinced it is easier to win at 2/5 than it is at .25/50NL..
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Tilt is a profit killer. Being stubborn is a profit killer. I profit consistently in terms of months and years (days and weeks is too short a time frame). I load up 4 cash tables and sit in my chair at home calm and Zen. This software missing basic features found and updated just about everywhere else doesn't bother me, I let it go. I don't stubbornly play three handed on
Thanks, I appreciate your thoughts.
For context, I was on for 5 months November till now and averaged 8-10k a month depending on volume. During covid on bovada, I did about 250k April of 2020 to April of 2021. Made way more $, all hu sngs.
Damn, there's that much potential edge in husngs? How many games were you playing per day?
There was a guy who notoriously won 50-60k at cash vs the bots in 2024 and got banned from poker.
I saw a video on that. That guy figured out the bots' patterns and how to exploit them. He said he thinks they banned him out of pure incompetence iirc. Of course some people speculate that the bots are in some way in-house.
Poker is getting less and less popular, on any poker site.... Your complaint about empty tables has not a damn thing to do with Ignition.
I've heard the MTT and SNG traffic on WPT Gold is considerably more than ignitions. Haven't verified myself.
Your join date says 2007. That doesn't mean you have been playing on some version of Bodog since then, but if you have been around long enough, there were once regular cash game lobbies...if I recall correctly. Poker is getting less and less popular, on any poker site. They removed the cash game lobbies here partly to hide just how few players there are. But I can go onto Y
Thanks for your perspective about the probable reasons that Ignition's cash games lobby sucks. I guess I must have worded my post poorly. What I was attempting to say is that in my opinion their software functionality in this regard is by far the worst I have ever seen among past or present poker sites, and that I hate it. And accordingly, my question was and is whether any of this network's other skins have better cash games lobbies, or do they all work the same annoying way.
That is still my question. Thanks.
Thanks for your perspective about the probable reasons that Ignition's cash games lobby sucks. I guess I must have worded my post poorly. What I was attempting to say is that in my opinion their software functionality in this regard is by far the worst I have ever seen among past or present poker sites, and that I hate it. And accordingly, my question was and is whether any
This might be oversimplified, but I would say a "skins" network model works with one company being the flagship and then allowing other companies to copy their software. So for the most part all of the copies of the software are the same and then each skin can decide of different rewards. Bovada and Ignition have different rewards stores. Another example is over the years I think Bovada has rewards for a royal and bad beat while at times Ignition has not, or it is the other way around. Going to a different network, most skins on the WPN network use to have the no rathole tables and then ACR (the flagship) made the other's turn that feature off. Think of it like the flagship having a menu that all the skin can pick from of games and features they can turn on or off. But basically, I expect the software to be mostly about the same on all skins, with a few exceptions, but a completely different lobby system as an on or off feature seem a bit much to hope for across a skin network.
Good points. Maybe I used a bad term ("skins"). My idea of a network was/is that the various sites in the network share a common player base, but other than that, have and control their own software. Semantics I guess. In any event, like I said, you make some very good points. I think it's probably been hashed enough now. Thanks again.
I was playing $50/100 buy ins at hu. Hours were evenings mainly 5pm central to 2/3 a.m., but on average I'd start around 7, finish around 2, and have an hour or two break in between often. Most nights were in the 5-6 hour range playing. Make $300 a day that's 9k. I had plenty of days where I'm in the profit $500-800. Then on occasion I'd have a day over 1k. Best was 1800 where I got really hot, couple others around 1500. So you have a few big days like that. Not too many losing days tbh. It's cyclical though.
I'm a very experienced player in the hu format, so even with the ridiculous blind structure I could beat it. Main thing with me is I'm not some guy who tried to use a systematic style of play, like always raising pre the same amount, a default C betting size, etc. I simply used tactics I knew maxed out profit margins depending on the situation. My main adv was always knowing a pretty effective counter to whatever style I was up against - granted sometimes it would take me a bit longer to figure it out than others but I'd get there. Most of the regs that flooded the site 2022-2025 were very robotic, system type players who would do a GTO type style with every player with fairly minimal variation. Me, on the other hand, would combine the GTO with the extreme exploitation tactics. If a guy is playing really loose and I got AA in the small blind, I might raise 5x right into him preflop. NOBODY else would do that - they'd raise a default amount. But if you think logically, if a guy just is calling almost anything why are you doing that guy a favor and letting him see a flop for 3x cheaper. Make the player prove he's smart enough to figure out what you're doing and adjust, even if what you're doing looks odd.
Are hu sngs done? Yes, essentially. Every American site but bovada/ignition got rid of the format pretty much. And bovada/ignition made the blind structure far more unfavorable - just because I can beat it doesn't mean it's worth playing for just about anyone else.
The last account I had that got banned - I deposited $200 once. Withdrew 9/10k a month for 5 months. Never had to redeposit. Only did hu. Got a few phony warnings for "chip transfers" and then banned me earlier this week. I did nothing illegal - just won too much and they didn't like it in all likelihood. It is possible they installed some flawed AI system to combat the bots/cheating and mine got flagged by mistake (I was on ignition a very long time ago when bovada temporarily removed their poker room - I won on ignition and they never tried to boot me this is a very recent thing).
For a guy who constantly complains that you did nothing wrong you seem awfully quick to break the site’s TOS.
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why not ask your grandma to make an account?
When multitabling has anyone had a table just freeze when going all in and leaving your self .5bb and then it unfreezes a minute later and your sitting out folding?
Happened twice today!
When multitabling has anyone had a table just freeze when going all in and leaving your self .5bb and then it unfreezes a minute later and your sitting out folding?
Happened twice today!
Not like that, but the freezing/sitout happens quite often. Except for the terrible players, there's absolutely zero reason to play there. I still do though 😀
ignition dot eu is working now FYI
Reg'd two tournies and both are unable to be played bc of a '404 Not Found (ngix)' error. It does this on desktop app, a web browser and mobile. Assume the two buy-ins are gone. Anyone had this same problem and know of a fix? Of course their casino games work tho. Convenient.
(resolved via this method
WINDOWS
1. Close the Poker client.
2. In the search field on the task bar, enter "%appdata%" and select that AppData file folder that pops up.
3. Locate the poker file ignitioncasino-eu-poker and delete it.
4. Reopen the Poker client and log back in."
I was playing $50/100 buy ins at hu. Hours were evenings mainly 5pm central to 2/3 a.m., but on average I'd start around 7, finish around 2, and have an hour or two break in between often. Most nights were in the 5-6 hour range playing. Make $300 a day that's 9k. I had plenty of days where I'm in the profit $500-800. Then on occasion I'd have a day over 1k. Best was 1800
But Ignition/Bodog removed HUsng? Only Bovada still has them?
Does anyone have the "cash" option available in their Ignition Rewards Store? For me it is grayed out and only "free games" "tournament tickets" and "bonus funds" are available options. I'm a cash player and I dream of that since it is at least in the menu maybe someone has this turned on.
And if that isn't bad enough, the casino "free games" and "bonus funds" have absurd 20x-35x clearance rates, while most of the "tournament ticket" mile amounts are just as absurdly high. I have never even made 1,300,000 lifetime miles in my account over years of having account. WTF?!
The lowest I have available is 33,000 miles for a $10+1 tournament ticket. They removed the one that I use to have for a $5+0.50 ticket. Does anyone still have a $5+0.50 ticket option or a $1+0.10 ticket option?
Obviously playing here for rewards is a joke, but these biatches is cray cray.
Yes, I have $5+0.50 and $2+0.20 tickets available right now.
I can't be bothered with tournaments, so I go for the $5-100 cash rewards with 1x rollover which are still available for me.
Thanks for information.
As bad as the rewards are here, it is pathetic they are also manipulating things per player like their version of a GG Poker's Player Value Index (PVI). I used Ignition's $5+0.50 tournament tickets as my favorite choice, for which I was showing a profit with the tournament tickets and they eventually removed it for me. Furthermore, my cash rewards rollover is 20x-35x.
I get disconnected every time I play poker on bovada. It seems to be worse if I'm two tabling. Is anyone else having this problem lately? I've had issues with this in the past, but it's been decent for a while until the last week or so. It's brutal now. The worse is when it happens when I have a good hand, in a big pot. It's not my internet connection either...that's fine.
Has anyone had any trouble launching the Bovada App off of an older mac since the new Catalina 10.15.8 update? I have been using Bovada on an old mac with zero issues for quite a while now. Then after Apple came in with an update to Catalina I haven't been able to use the app for a few months now. Every time I try to run the poker app it will show up on my dock, with the little dot underneath it, and then nothing will happen. That dot will just quickly show up and then go away.
I have tried to contact support numerous times about it. They always say they will forward this to the tech/engineering team, and email me, but nothing ever comes of it. It's not a huge deal using the browser or mobile version, but I do like going over hand histories through this tracking software I have. With the browser you aren't able to download your sessions, and get a complete list of the hand histories. Through the website you have to click on them one by one, and it's just quite frustrating.
I hope someone here has a solution for this!
I haven't seen the cash out option for sports bets in a while. Anyone know what happened?
Lots of disconnects here recently
Has anyone had any trouble launching the Bovada App off of an older mac since the new Catalina 10.15.8 update? I have been using Bovada on an old mac with zero issues for quite a while now. Then after Apple came in with an update to Catalina I haven't been able to use the app for a few months now. Every time I try to run the poker app it will show up on my dock, with the little
''Ok I thought I had it fixed but it stared randomly not opening again. At this point (im on desktop) I can uninstall ignition, then re install it using the .exe from ignition gaming dot net/au. It take about 30 seconds in total. It sucks but it's a way in for now.''
Has anyone had any trouble launching the Bovada App off of an older mac since the new Catalina 10.15.8 update? I have been using Bovada on an old mac with zero issues for quite a while now. Then after Apple came in with an update to Catalina I haven't been able to use the app for a few months now. Every time I try to run the poker app it will show up on my dock, with the little
Have you tried reinstalling? I think recently they added support for intel and apple chips
Has anyone ever purchased a Ignition, Bovada. or Bodog Account Before?
Additionally from your personal Account...
This is Completely Random, But caught my curiosity when I came accross a market that sells Accounts.
I went down a rabbit hole the past few days and was wondering why someone would purchase someone's
account, if they couldnt withdrawal? Buyers wanted Accounts with Hall of Fame status or Pro Tier level.
Do people just want the logins so they can just play with the rewards points ?
Wondering how they get people's info, i wanted to see if my data has been compromised. So I paid for
one of the cloud subs on Telegram and started looking for my info anywhere and everywhere. I did find
parcial data of mine, but not complete, maybe corrupted. I believe everyone on this network should search
for themselves on these types of markets, because of all the drama ive read on these forums and reddits
over the past 2 years.
This channel https://t.me/+phbSe8GabdExZjVh
is a good spot to look from my experience. Other avenues i looked at cost stupid money.
I still dont know why anyone would buy accounts ? It doesnt make sense to me, or im missing something
Has anyone ever purchased a Ignition, Bovada. or Bodog Account Before?
Additionally from your personal Account...
This is Completely Random, But caught my curiosity when I came accross a market that sells Accounts.
I went down a rabbit hole the past few days and was wondering why someone would purchase someone's
account, if they couldnt withdrawal? Buyers wanted Accounts with Hall of Fame status or Pro Tier level.
Do people just want the logins so they can just play with the rewards points ?
Wondering how they get people's info, i wanted to see if my data has been compromised. So I paid for
one of the cloud subs on Telegram and started looking for my info anywhere and everywhere. I did find
parcial data of mine, but not complete, maybe corrupted. I believe everyone on this network should search
for themselves on these types of markets, because of all the drama ive read on these forums and reddits
over the past 2 years.
I still dont know why anyone would buy accounts ? It doesnt make sense to me, or im missing something
