Informal poll - who has better software Bodog in 2011 or Party Poker in 2005?


and lol @ bodog rolling out the buggiest software in the entire poker industry - do these people test stuff before they present it to people, jesus.

It's unfortunate that there are bugs, but they are getting fixed. As far as adding some options/filters and stuff keep the suggestions coming, they'll consider them for a future addition. The lobby look as a whole is an improvement in my mind, aside from the bugs. I don't think a rollback is needed, the bugs just need to be patched and fixed. Changing the means that people can see the table is def something I will address next time I talk to them though.

Could somebody explain the comments about bad rake at Bodog? I looked on the site and the only difference I saw was a little worse for HU tables, but not awful

That is the only difference. They just need something to complain about and that is one of their favorites.

Thanks Justin. You really get **** on in these threads but we just need someone to beat on for bodog's choices and you happen to be the only one 2p2ers can talk to. Thanks for at least giving us some voice with bodog management. Even though it's not at all evident, we do appreciate having you here

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SLOW DOG, Everyone is laughing about SLOW-DOG.
I can run, FT, Pstars, and multiple tables, and surf the web.
When I play SLOW DOG, I have to close everything...
I don't have the latest computer. Its Obvious that they must have had Indian Programmers
design the SLOW- DOG poker engine, as they are notorious for creating crappy, sloppy
programs. They need to do a complete re-write of their poker engine.

Very buggy again tonight..I decided to play a HU sng....Midway through as the pot raked to my opponent, I just sat there and waited for a new hand as the entire game froze...My internet connection was fine so I closed the program and attempted to open it again,...wouldn't open...when I finally got it open the game was over as I was auto folded out....I reported to Bodog and they immediately refunded my money...I got a response very quickly less than 30 mins from my email;



Thank you for contacting Bodog Poker Customer Service.


We are sorry to hear that you experienced technical concerns while playing on our Bodog Poker software. In regards to this, we experienced some technical issues on some of our tables on the Poker software. In line with this, we will credit back the $xx.xx buy in amount to your account.



We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused on your end and we kindly ask for your understanding as we continually do our best to improve our Bodog Poker software.


Thank you very much for writing. Should you have any questions, or require any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.





Looks like they are well aware of this and there have been other cases as they were very quick to admit their wrongdoing and refunding the monies lost..I was actually very surprised by their promptness

I'm sure that recreational players still sometimes want to choose the stakes they want to play. The problem with the "Join" button is that it only shows one table, and slowly scrolls through available tables. If a guy logs on and the join table button is showing $8/16 limit, and he wants to play $0.5/1 or $1/2 no limit or something similar, he has to wait till the thing scrolls through to it.

i just googled and found out theres no rakeback on bodog, so far so good.

should one go through any affiliate then or just sign up through the site?

YES Justin you guys need a roll back.

The new software is awful and super-buggy. There are so many bugs that it will take a long time to fix them all, especially at the typical Bodog pace.

You are driving away both casual and regular players with this terrible software.

Games have been deader than ever for the past week.

I'm wondering if any improvements to Bodog have actually occurred thanks to this thread and having a rep here. Or, is this thread just to prevent slippage ie. damage control?

It would be interesting to see a list of enhancements that have been brought about, or bugs that have been fixed, as a result of Bodog listening to the feedback in this thread.

Aside from announcing brilliant innovations like Rush poker, Full Tilt posts a long list EVERY month of improvements that have taken place directly as a result of customer feedback and requests. In contrast, this thread feels like a wild goose chase.

I've played about 100 HUSNGs in the last few days and a lot of people have remarked about how slow, confusing and buggy the new software is. Even recreational players were telling me they hated it... which is pretty rare since I don't usually get comments about software after saying hi.

BTW: "Rest assured, we do test the functionality of the new poker interface to ensure that it is operating properly before any software update is released. " is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. It's almost as funny as when Bodog support informed me their software had no bugs. How can it possibly be true when a while back, one of Bodog's updates broke the ability to manually top-off in cash games for over 24 hours?! Even the most basic test would have found this problem prior to release.

Had a fish ask if he was the only one who couldn't see the last hand. I told him it was a bug. He then informs me, "no I checked it isn't a bug."

I'd also like to see the improvements they've made since they started these threads.

+1. Its way too hard for the recreational players to find their way to the tables. Why is bodog the only client in the world that doesnt auto-open to the lobby of tables?

I presume that PTR are still holding back an Idleminer update and the handgrabber still doesn't work.

^ This is the truth.

The new lobby makes the games hard to find. It's harder to preview who's sitting at a table. Switching between account, settings, hand history and the tables, is no longer done with just one click. You can no longer move the lobby on the screen if you're looking at a hand history, settings, or your account, and this creates several problems. You have to find the X in the corner to close whatever you're looking at if you need to move the lobby, and if the X isn't on the screen, you're stuck and have to find a way to exit the program. And as soon as you close a table, the lobby steals focus, which really sucks if you're looking at a hand history and have a few other tables going, because if it pops up over one of your tables you can't move it off without closing the HH and of course whatever table it pops up over will not steal focus back when it's your turn to act.

The above listed problems are NOT bugs, all I did was describe features that are working exactly the way they were designed to. That's very disturbing. Improving these issues, is basically going to take a redesign of the *new* lobby...so I don't expect any of these things will be fixed anytime soon. Players are leaving, gameplay is slower due to the auto focus issue and more timeouts, and the design flaws make the lobby a big step backwards for what was already one of the worst softwares in the industry. This, in addition to a crapload of new bugs, is why a rollback is DESPERATELY needed.

(As for the filters, which don't work well, I think they were intentionally designed to work that way. If you sort by stakes, 9max 6max and 2max are all randomly stuck together, but if you sort by # of players, then the stakes become unsorted. It had to be designed this way, because it only takes ONE click of the mouse to see that you can't sort the tables neatly by using one of the filters, and Bodog of course tests these things, right? So either there is no test process whatsoever, not even 30 seconds worth, or the filters are supposed to work the way they do.)

Always fun to lose your controls while you're in a hand.

Nice to see Bodog is paying attention to fixing existing bugs instead of making dumb cosmetic modifications.

Oh wait...

Idleminer update out.... says i have 1k hand free trial and wont let me register with old key........

Another fun bug with the software: my cards randomly stopped displaying last night on every table I was playing. Of course rebooting the software works. It also costs EV when you're in a bunch of SNGs. What a cluster**** of an "update".

Justin,
A couple of very annoying bugs and/or poorly designed features I would like to touch on. A few have been already mentioned in this thread.

1) When it is your attention at the table (i.e. your turn to act) and you are on another screen, it does not bring it to the center...I have timed out several times and this is very annoying and was standard on the last version and on all sites.

2) You cannot get into the HH from a table, whether it be from the link to the last hand in the left corner nor even by trying to get to the lobby...You cannot go to the lobby at all while a table is open,...I don't get this one at all.

3) Reloading to an amount less than the table max is buggy...I, several times tried to buy in for 80bb while still playing and dropping low and the numbers were in red and it would not let me. Serious design flaw here.

4) Every table closed brings you to the lobby and seems to freeze the software for a second or two. This is somewhat similar to FT but it is a quick flash on their lobby and you can easily click back to your table(s),..but bodogs is much slower.

5) Not related to gameplay,...the lobby is horrible and I doubt the new player or novice would even know how to find a specific game...Take us to the lobby with the cash games and have a tab for tourneys, play money etc....please, show the tables when you open the software...

I am very very disappointed with the update and it is no surprise that fewer and fewer players are playing...it seems like about 1/2 at the stakes I usually play for the specific time of day...Can we roll back to the previous version until these problems are addressed?

Hope the $3/hr Indonesian programmers were worth it bodog.

in case anyone doesn't know or you have bodog installed on another computer with the old version..You can play with the old version by loading it up and then hitting the update button when prompted...just keep the status bar open and move it in the corner...you will have to do this each time you load the software but you can then log in and play the old version...worked for me on my old laptop

my key work. what doesnt work was the program dont track any hand

is ur grabber working fine?

WHERE ARE THE FREEROLLS?