Damn...just missed it Was 17 minutes too late.

Am I the only one thats sick of getting booted off of tables for a 30 second disconnect?

It doesn't even show up as active in the client. However...

It did credit the transaction immediately to my account

And if I go to the web site Under my account and click statements and click bonus it shows all of it playing through already and redeeming as soon as I played $400 in games (games not rake)

So it has the appearance of already fully clearing for me

If anyone can confirm its cleared I would love to trigger my free monthly withdraw on 12/1

If you go to bovada.lv and login, then click "My Account" it seems to break out your Cash Balance from your Bonus Balance. Should allow you to see how much you have left to "clear" even though technically the money is in your account.

Yeah. Mine shows $0 left in bonus there now. After I deposited it displayed the initial bonus.

Someone explain this poker bowl promotion. Just started playing again on the 'dog.

Im curious about the depo bonus on bodog.


on bovada it shows point increments of 50/250/750 etc. to unlock your depo bonus.

On bodog it has the exact same table except all the point totals are doubled fot the same unlock.


Which one is right, or is it possible (mindblowing) that bovada's is half the rake to unlock as bodogs?


also is there a way for bodog players to get in on the pro bowl promo?

On the website goto "poker" then "promotions" then "poker bowl" and join the team "NFC South" (alot of people itt are on that one) or whatever team you want. All of the details are on the poker bowl page.

Sick traffic tonight, about 100 25NL tables.

day was completely fishy. In zone I had a bunch of fish bascailly do ******ed things, **** that you don't see anymore. Reached the final table of a 2k 15+1 SS and christ that was the fishiest final table I have ever witnessed.

Whats funny is you claiming the site is so fishy but you spam my inbox looking for a stake. You are no better than the fish you claim to beat

Oh snap

"spam", what are you talking about, I sent you a single message once because I was looking for a stake. Also I am pretty sure that there is a positive correlation between a winning player and a player looking for a stake so i'm not too sure you are thinking correctly with that remark.

Just got a refund for $50 from bovada, they said they caught two colluders raising people out of pots. Is this a normal occurrence for them to actually put effort into policing/monitoring the games? I kind of assumed they just sat back and printed $, but this is very reassuring if this is common practice

I received a credit of $100 for a $50 DoN back in October. The message was generic saying two players were found to be colluding. It didn't say how or anything. Was pleased to get credit for a win as opposed to just a buyin back. I was not surprised about the collusion though. Impossible for players to police with anonymous names and no sharkscope

Kudos to Bovada

Has anyone successfully played mtts on any tablets on Bovada? If so which tablets work?

All tablets work with team viewer app use it over the cash game as you take better.

Goes on your PC/laptop and tablet or phone

No, there is a positive correlation between a losing player looking for a stake and a winning player getting one.

For a couple of years I've avoided playing Bovada, waiting for them to fix a glaring security problem but they've never fixed it. I've searched 2+2 to see if anyone else feels the same way but did not find anything on point; nobody else sees the issue as a problem. Maybe I'm more security conscious than the average player because I manage software security on my company's network but there is no excuse for requiring a program to run as an administrator. The following my 2 cents on the problem.

In the past, programmers got away with writing to what should have been protected locations because the operating systems (Windows XP and older) were so flimsy and easily cracked. Now that Microsoft has gotten their act together and improved the security in Windows 7 and 8, there are many locations in which a program is not allowed to write. If you create a program that tries to write to those protected locations, you will have to provide an administrator account and password, if you are following best security practices by logging on your computer with a standard user account.

(I assume many of you are administrators when you log on and that's why you are not being prompted to run the Bovada program. This is a terrible practice; any malicious program that gets launched on your computer now has full access to your whole computer.One of the current malware programs is the ransomware variant. If you get hit with that when logged on as an administrator, your computer is toast. If you get hit logged on as a standard user, only your user profile and areas to which you can write is toast. To continue using your computer you can always log on with your separate admin account and create a new account for you to use. Here is a another take on the issue.)

Those locations are protected in Windows 7 & 8 for a reason; writing to those locations can cause big problems if the program isn't careful. Programs that write to those to should only do so in special circumstances, such as during an installation. Writing to those locations as a normal practice is a security breach.

What is wrong with allowing a program to run as an administrator? We are all familiar with computer viruses and malware and the havoc they can cause. As I mentioned earlier the permissions the virus has will determine the degree to which it is successful. Give a virus administrator access and it will take over your whole computer because there is nothing there to stop it. The same applies to the Bovada program. By giving it administrator permissions, it has full control over your computer and can do whatever it wants. Do you trust these offshore programmers? It makes no difference if you don't; the Bovada program can make any changes it wants. Hopefully a bug in the code (or intentional coding!) won't delete or rename an important folder (both of which I've seen other programs do), it won't uninstall competing programs, it won't intentionally break HUD programs, it won't change your antivirus settings, it won't change a DLL file from another program, etc. The list goes on as to the problems it can cause.

So Bovada's continual 'need' to write to protected areas is what, poor programming practices? Windows 7 came out in 2009! How long does it take for a programmer to fix the problem? 5 Years? How about 5 days? I'm an amateur programmer; it seems to me that fixing the problem should be a really trivial change.

Maybe the problem is still around because nobody has complained about it; now they have. It is hard to believe though with the increased awareness of privacy security issues that nobody has objected.

I am left with the fact the administrator requirement is intentional which means the program is doing something it really shouldn't be doing. So I guess I'll never get a chance to play there, or any other site that requires administrator permission to run. I'm not prepared to put my computer at risk by giving a foreign company full administrator access to it.

Would they need admin privileges to check computer for other running programs and websites?

No. Basic information on all running processes is available in a Read Only state.

I don't know about all the security, but I do hate putting in a password every time I fire up bovada

Yes, it is annoying.

If you really want to keep using their software, I've read about a method to avoid the problem but have not tried it. Although this post says it is for Vista, the linking poster said it works in Windows 7.

So you don't use holdem manager either? They require admin access too.

^^ Was it really necessary to quote his page long response?