could of been part of the power hour....which ended yesterday i believe

Like Kenneth said.. it was part of the Power Hour tournament promotion that concluded yesterday.

If i get dced for 5 seconds id appreciate not being removed from the table immediately and being unable to rejoin it for 5 minutes thanks.

Any update on getting a secure login system/token? For example, every time you log in you must enter a code that gets sent to your cell phone.

oh that sucks, I didn't realize that this was a part of a promotion. Would be great if Bovada made the $4K plo8 mtt @ 21:50 est a regular thing. Pretty sure that not once has the $4K guaranteed amount has not been met.

Draconian for sure.

Longstanding bug:

I sit out and miss two rounds of blinds. I know that if I miss a third I will be kicked off the table. Before my BB hits, I click sit in. I have auto-post unchecked so that it doesn't post me till my natural big blind.

The previous hand ends, and the client asks me if I want to post. I click the "wait for big blind" button, and check auto-post blind so that it will post for me when my natural blinds hits.

A hand or two later the big blind gets to me, but instead of posting my blind it sits me out and kicks me off the table.

not to mention the "wait for bb" box magically getting unclicked. and if you are unfortunate enough to have auto post clicked as well, it will post you from wherveer you are...like taking money right off my stack.

i also was unable to open bovada on a macbook pro with most recent software updates and dld from site and it says this mac is unable to open bovada.

points to cash if possible. do not like playing sng or mtt with tickets.

I've received funds in my account on 3 separate occasions with no indication as to why. The account history doesn't show the deposits and the balances do not initially match.

I can only assume they are from one of the promotions I've opted in, but you would think that there would be an email or that it would show up on the history.
Or, is there some sort of automatic deposit bonus or rakeback/reward on bovada?

My concern is that there is some sort of error that causes problems when cashing out.

To add:

The amounts do not match up with the Holiday gift / I have not received any emails.

Not at this time, no.

From what I saw just following the lobbies, the power hour mtts did quite well.. and I'm sure this won't be overlooked by the network. I'll pass along the support for the plo8 and others.

Ok thanks, I'll pass this along.

Haven't heard of this happening in quite some time. When/if it happens again, could you please take down the hh number and your player number and pm it to me.

Ok thanks. I'll pass it along on my end, and if you could let support know.. they might be able to walk through a few steps to fix it.

The network switched from points to cash a few years ago. I can pass along a suggestion for more options.. but can't promise anything would come from it. You can also email support and ask them to suggest more options for your points.

You can log into your operator's website, at the top right click accounts > statements > bonus statements. That might give you an answer. If not, you can always email support.

Bovada/Bodog give out random 2 figure gifts to certain accounts based on internal metrics. Be happy, it's free money


There is an automatic initial deposit bonus. There is no rakeback.


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Kahn

Thanks for this! As another PLO8 player, we very much appreciate the time and attention given to this. Now that Merge cut their bi-weekly $109 MTT as of a few months ago, we pretty much have nothing in terms of midstakes MTTs, aside from your weekly $50, $7k GTD. Let's hope the daily $50 can be a regular thing!

If you can use points for tourney entries, how about using points for cash game buy-ins that you cannot cash out, a'la slot bonus for bus riders.

anyone know how the rake works on bodog? say if i have 1000 players points. how much have i raked?

Hey Ice,

Just curious...will you guys be running sattys for the WSOP Main when that time of the year rolls around?

http://poker.bovada.lv/getting-started/poker-points


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Kahn

Any update with this from August? I've been experiencing disconnects today for no apparent reason, with the same symptoms as OP.

They've been fully aware of the disconnect problems for the past 2 years specifically, and going back to 2005 as far as I know. They are either unwilling or unable to resolve the issues.

Pretty cool. Has anyone found any steps to at least reduce the risk of a disconnect?

Why don't you guys take collusion seriously? It's the single most important thing you can do when all of your players are anonymous, yet when I catch people red handed:

[IMG]http://s7.************/a0p6tf8rf/Tournament_3817772_Collusion.jpg[/IMG]

Your support ignores my initial email for two weeks, finally replies after repeated emails saying they'll "look into it," but never does anything? When I ask for updates they tell me they won't share the results due to confidentiality. Is that a joke? Everyone is anonymous! Who's confidentiality are they protecting??? It's an obvious ploy to sweep collusion under the rug because I suppose rake is all they care about.

They also claim they "can't send me my hand histories" from the final table (total BS, someone could if they really wanted to, but they'd rather sweep this under the rug) because it is longer than 7 days since the incident. Well maybe if they replied to my first email about it instead of ignoring me for 2 weeks I could have known that rule in time. I am so livid, disgusted, and really disappointed with Bovada... I thought you guys were the best and introduced lots of friends to your network. Now unfortunately I have no choice but to steer everyone away. I won't watch my friends get cheated on a site with no protection that sweeps collusion reports under the rug and ignores the best interests of their customers.

Just like the other thread answered, there is no rakeback on Bovada. The penalty for such a thing is expulsion from the program and loss of one's entire book of business.


The rules for downloading hand histories have always been 7 days, no exceptions. It is unfortunate that you did not know this.

If you search this thread and the Bovada thread, as well as other online public forums, you will find many instances where players had money returned to them for collusion. Bovada does care, does catch players, and does reimburse players for cheating.

Online poker security departments don't share details of investigations with players. That happens at Bodog/Bovada, and every other poker site/network around all the way from the mighty Pokerstars down to the lowliest of newbie networks.


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Kahn

Why didn't you download the hand histories yourself? The second you thought you were being cheated you should have written down hand histories/tourney # and then gone back in 24 hours later to look at the hole cards. Waiting 7 days to do this seems very odd unless you didn't know that Bovada had hand histories at all, which is another issue altogether.