yeah I think that any HUD-type software shouldn't be allowed. it's better for poker in the long run if we keep it more fair for the recreational player. I think bovada's anonymous tables is a great idea for online poker.

So I see a lot of people asking what type of prepaid visa cards to use and since I don't know how to PM (yes, im a noob sorry) i'm going to post here what has always worked for me for Lock (never depositing there again) and Bovada.

Paypower visa card. $5 fee for card and $4 to reload. You can buy them at any Safeway or Quik Stop.

P.S. I hope it's okay that I posted this here not sure if I'm allowed to post the names of these types of things.

+1
Reading the forums after the switch was hilarious. All the hud users screaming about security concerns and trying to organize boycotts when in reality they just couldn't win without a program tracking every hand ever played. All I know is that my win rate went up nicely. Love anonymous, well played Bodog.

no

anybody playing on here that is not American?

im a Canadian that is living in the US now for a while/undetermined period of time and am trying to figure out my options on where I can/should play.

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This man speaks the truth.

Minor inconvenience with the software, I had "sit out next BB" checked, but the player who was supposed to be BB, next, left but I ended up posting my BB still.

Happened to me yesterday too. Also I have auto-post blinds and antes checked in my preferences along with wait for BB, and today when I sat down at a table for the first time it auto posted for me in UTG. Shouldn't do either of those things.

I believe it will post your blind when someone that is supposed to be in the blinds times out and doesn't post. It's obviously a bug they will hopefully fix

to Cliffpaul... stay on merge if you are winning.

And if you aren't winning there your head will explode on Bovada with no HUD and crazy opponents.

I concur. It's nice that you don't have to fork over cash for poker software to keep up with the Joneses. Is it such a bad thing when it's only about who can get a read on their opponent and play their hands the best on a session-by-session basis? I think not.

I'd like to chime in that I also experience this bug


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Kahn

yea I was fed up with this crap. I made 5bb/100 @ FR on merge $50 NL.

For someone to be really successful on these sites they must do the following.
#1 exploit every advantage a HUD has to offer.
#2 buy hand histories
#3 research those hand histories of your opponents for hours
#4 get notecaddy and exploit it to the max
#5 constantly figure out what the next new exploitation is from software and strategy based on what the field is doing.

Its pretty sad that some new player can sit down and totally understand your game already and you never met him. To me that's not poker.

I do know some who take 100% advantage of the above and win a hell of a lot of money online. One person I know makes ~$300 an hour last I was told. He is way better than I am. But the tools give him such an advantage over his opponents and he knows how to abuse the stats.

If you know that X player folds in Y spot Z percent of the time and Z percent is below optimal just by 2% you can play perfectly if you can read those numbers. Live there is no X,Y,Z just everything else that must be formulated intuitively and with experience to figure out your opponent including his state of mind and how he thinks.

I find live poker much more interesting. Bovada falls in that category since you have no idea who you are playing. I am glad they finally put in notes though per session.

Is anyone elses sng lobby frozen? Cash game lobby seems fine,but not my sng lobby.

Is anybody trying to reg sng's right now?

You sound like a fool. You obviously have no clue what youre talking about. Over under on you being 35? Over.

yeah, mtts also work

yea im frozen w/ the sng's

same here

Ditto, I was doing well too. After playing in 3 Hyper Turbos winning 2 and third place in other it froze on me. It was locking up on people last week and I actually got some buy ins refunded as well as a free tourney ticket.

Shame the software is messing up. I love the no HUD. Most of the so called Internet Pros are only doing what the tracking software tells them to do. Seen many on them get on live tables and get smoked like hams.

To me using a HUD and claiming you're playing is like turning on auto pilot and still claim to be "flying" the plane.

With all the issues that Bovada has been experiencing lately, I have a disconnect sometime last night, have to reboot the program, sit there looking at the "live update" bar not move for a while, finally getting logged back in. I was in three SNGs at the time, one right on the bubble from the money middle stack, another a little further from the money middle stacked and the last middle way in the game well stacked. Anyway, by the time I get back logged in, the first two I listed, my chips have been greatly diminished and the third I have enough to survive. I get knocked out of the first two shortly after logging back in and manage to make it into the money with the third.

So I call customer service and they tell me the problem had to be on my end because no other players got disconnected so they can't refund the buy-in for the two I got knocked out of. Now I understand that in general but considering I haven't had these issues in the past and that I had no other issues with my internet connection when this happened, meaning someone else was surfing the net on a different computer using the connection, along with my internet phone still working fine when disconnected from Bovada, it doesn't seem likely it was on my end.

Just wanted to vent I guess but just because others were able to stay connected shouldn't equate to it being an issue with my connection and not on Bovada's end, considering all the recent hiccups, should it?

Restarting my computer worked for me

Having an issue with holdem indicator not finding Bovada tables... It was working fine for me last night, but now it won't attach to any of my tables. Anyone else experience this?

How dare you!!!!

That is outrageous!!!!

Im over 35 and can operate a HUD and the VCR.