anyone else having trouble depositing? Its been 3 hours since I did a.. "rapid" transfer.

The ME 470+30 description says the "packages are non-transferable and that the winner MUST play the event". Can anyone confirm for me please whether or not it is true that they deposit the 12k package into your account for withdraw and whether you show up to play the ME or not is up to you?

Thanks in advance.

What? No. What reason would you have to think they just give you $12K in cash?

AFAIK it's cash. Pretty sure they can't directly buy you into the event. I know someone who won a seat last year so I'll ask him to confirm and post the answer here.

Thank you for checking. For some reason I am remembering years ago that all sites were barred from directly entering players, so I guess I'm wondering if they deposit the whole 12k to your account or just the 2k cash and have a rep meet you at the series to give 10k Rio chips to buy in with or something.

Interested in this ^ as well

Are May 26th and June 8th the only ones? That is all I see, but semifinals are running constantly.


Last year a guy was saying that even though Bovada can't legally buy you directly in to the ME, somehow they did. They met the guy in Vegas and gave him his entry ticket and put 2k in his acct.

yeah they buy you in directly. they don't put the cash in your accounts.

source: i won a seat last year.

And they are correct. What can you possibly gain from bragging on a poker forum how soft the games are that you play other than some worthless ego stroke, ie, look at me, all my opponents suck and Im awesome.

They used to be better.

A lot, considering there are only twenty seats available surrounding a six max cash player four tabling, if just one single good player is persuaded to join and is sitting at your tables replacing a rec your winrate just took a substantial fall.

Every decent player in the world? If you can convince me that is accurate and that not one of those players that already know might be convinced to join by pages full of silly recommendations then Ill be convinced that bragging about where you make money to your like minded competitors is a neutral activity. Until then, Ill assume the reality, which is at best that nothing positive can from it, and at worst it can cost me money.

FWIW, I watched sites like WSEX and Cake go from the softest sites in the world to complete rock gardens because of poker forums brags and word of mouth. If the rest of the US sites all start implementing table caps and everyone starts flowing into Bovada because they heard how soft it is, you will see what I mean more clearly. As you stated, there are still things that are keeping the site from being saturated by winning players as some other sites with similar reputations eventually were.

Having said all of that, this is a poker forum and people have the right to voice their opinions. If someone IM`d someone threatening them about those posts that is obviously ridiculous and out of line. Im merely commentating and giving my opinion as to why it seems like a ridiculous or at least an illogical activity to participate in if your goal is to make as much money as you can playing poker. I believe it can be more, but even if the negative effect is between zero and minimal, we know its not a positive so why do it? Its like when people ask in the cashout thread, why bother not posting bank names, anyone that wants the info will know where to find it yadda yadda. We do it because nothing good can come from it and in theory someone bad could even if its a not likely theoretical google hit from some previously clueless prying eyes.

^ That post seems like a good use of time lmao.

He forgot to mention the crappy bonus program...no rakeback...nothing to see here....move along.

I've made more than you will ever dream of making loser.learn to keep your big mouth shut liek I told you before. And no, you started a thread in high stakes boasting about beating 5/10nl for 10bb per 100 over like 40k hands and wondering why over a 20k hand sample you were down at 10/20. people have to be thinking to themselves hmm if this tard can beat the games for 10bb/100 I better check those games out. any guy who posts on 2p2 about how great the games that THEY PLAY IN are in 2014 must have some sort of brain damage

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This x1000. You guys are idiots. And don't be fooled by PLOHigh guy. He's happy if anybody plays the joke of a game known as PLO and is trying to attract the world to it to help take it out of obscurity.

Whats wrong with PLO?

Takes a brain to be good at?

I won a2.5k pot today so definitely not a requirement

Client down

what a piece of ****,

Down here

JFC me too X_X in the middle of a tourney

Disconnecting. What a pos why does Bovada always disconnect

Because it's 2am, nobody is on the internet right now.

Currently a top 5 stack in a tourney -_______-