Those 2 bugs are god awful. I used to be able to surf the web freely in any browser, but the last few months, I have found that certain websites cause brief disconnections from my tables.

It is only certain websites, and it happens in any browser. For example, youtube and twoplustwo have never caused these disconnects. But certain other websites will in any browser, and I am able to reproduce the problem reliably by simply playing while viewing these sites.

So maybe the problem is related to some software/a plugin that some sites use and others don't? Perhaps something that Bodog/Bovada uses that other poker sites do not? Perhaps something Bodog/Bovada has started using in the last few months?

1) "Your biggest nightly tourney is the $55 - 35K guarantee. Why is that only a DS tourney? 3000 chips is too short for this." PLEASE make this a 5,000 chip starting stack tournament. The play in the beginning is very shallow for such a great tournament!

2) Sync breaks! We all get that regs want sync breaks...but recs love sync breaks too! My dad is a recreational player and has told me numerous times that he'd like to be able to take breaks when he's playing more than 1 tournament. Please make this happen.

I love how everyone decided to skip this part.

I'm also on board with this for SNGs.

-1, it's the best tourney they have and it's grown as it is. You don't want all the recreational player not to play it because it goes until 3 am. It's already a stretch because it starts at 9pm est. leave it alone lol.

I do think the Sunday 35k turbo should have 5k starting stacks tho.

Edit: I think the feeder sngs sattys to 35k/40k/100k should be turbos, or offer both at least.

If you think more about this you should be able to figure out why people don't want synced breaks in MTTs.

4 entries in a single Zone pool.

It is fine with me if it sometimes takes a bit longer to get a new hand - to avoid being seated with fast-folded players from my other tables or whatever. It is also OK if it is only allowed when the pool is deep enough for it to work reasonably well.

1) the nightly 35k needs a 5k stack. It's way to short towards the end.

2) have one more big guarantee during the week. Maybe have a 50k or something. It's too frustrating having to wait until Sunday to play the 100k.

3) raise the 100k to 150k or have a 200k once a month!

Good stuff coming in so far. I'll compile/address some of them later this evening/tomorrow morning.

Question to the tournament players out there (both rec and reg).. there is one question I've been wondering for awhile now: The Escalating Levels mtts that the network offered never seemed to do quite as well as I imagined they would.

Does this come from not liking the structure.. or perhaps just not understanding what they are?

Structure is great. It is just blind levels and stacks sometimes make it less playable.

Having a Ft where chip leader is 25bb and it's 5-15 for the rest doesn't make it really poker. It sucks when you're flipping for hundreds ( or thousands )

I like them a lot but feel it'd play better at 2000 starting stack.

Suggestion: Allow up to 6 cash game tables, as suggested earlier.

Well, it looks like Bovada is up to its old tricks again when it comes to promoting its sportsbook in the poker client. A big banner at the bottom of the lobby and a symbol in the corner of the playing table itself. I seem to remember them trying this twice before and both times there were many technical bug problems and they had to take it down. Not to mention it gets in the way of a good thing. we can see their sportsbook on their homepage...when people download the poker client they should only see poker stuff. I think this is a bad idea Bodog Ice. I wish they would stop bringing it up.

btw, you asked about the lack of popularity with escalating level tournaments... you have so few of them, that is why I haven't played them.

So they can **** their britches?

Which sites? I want to try. FWIW, I play inside of Parallels and have an extremely stripped down virtual machine and still get disconnects about as often as everyone else. Perhaps it has something to do with web traffic coming into my machine (or home network) regardless of what operating system is in use.

In theory you're right, but in reality there isn't one MTT player I know that plays for a living that doesn't play Bovada (that has access to it). Syncing the breaks isn't going to cause some huge influx of grinders to the site, they're already playing.... It would however make the tournaments much more enjoyable for everyone, both pros and recs. There is too much value to miss the tournaments because they have ****ty software, people just sit out at 55 after.

+1 to the sports ticker being the worst thing ever

You know every poker player in Bodog's services areas that play for a living? The 2, 5, 20 or even 50 dudes that you think you know that play for a living don't make up a fraction of 1% of the player pool that synced breaks have the potential to affect.

Why would anyone give you decent suggestions when literally the most requested features aren't implemented, and completely off the table even for discussion?

1: Sync breaks. Seriously. It's 2014. I know its shocking to you Bovada bigwigs, but even recreational players occasionally want to go to the bathroom.

2: Fix your broken mac software. Nobody likes to restart their computer to reopen Bovada software after the hand history / blackjack button crashes the software.

Oh and get rid of this stupid sports ticker.

It's hilarious to me that you people think Bovada is some secret and that not having synced breaks causes MTT players to not play here. It is the only site American's have access to with real tournaments and a good schedule. All of the best US MTT regs play Bovada, it's the only option...

I'll +1 the disconnect/rejoin bug but won't get optimistic since that has been brought in the last several of these suggestion round ups

To add to the list:
1. If you are going to let someone rejoin a table after 5 minutes, make them rejoin with the same stack they had when they left. Maybe an hour or 30 minutes or whatever the standard wait elsewhere is. I know that would sort of go against the anonymous thing since when they rejoined I could guess it was them, but the flip side of that is that they can rat-hole, rejoin, and KNOW that I am still player 6 but as far as I know they are a brand new unknown. May seem a bit nit-picky, but I know it happens.

2. Change the bet box back to where it does not clear when I click it. I know why it was done this way, but how about addressing that problem correctly instead of a kludgey hack?

Many of the last 30 posts would disagree... some ideas are off the tables doesn't mean all ideas need to be. If there are things you want to see (outside of the things off the table), why wouldn't you want to suggest them in hopes that they will like the idea, implement it, and make you (the player) happy.

Basically, why would I want to help you when you clearly don't think enough of us as humans to even give us a 5 minute piss break? You know what people want to see? Sync breaks. Why don't you go and implement that?

How come? Just curious.

And I guess I should have explained for those that may not be familiar.. Escalating levels tournaments are tournaments where blind levels are very short to begin with, I think around 3 minutes (I don't have a structure in front of me), and every other blind level, the blind level increases by 2 minutes until it hits 15. So when players are deep in the tournament, blind levels are longest.

Help me to help you.. but if you aren't interested in giving any suggestions, that is perfectly fine too. Enjoy your day

This might be a place to start!