[Bodog/Bovada/Ignition] Unofficial Thread

Yup, same. NL and PLO both.

Same, tables won´t load and will stay at 99%

same thing happened to me all the tables just died, sigh just wondering whats going on

same issue. jackpot sit n gos seem to be working fine for all you degens

i know the 99 percent bug is common but i can usually get tables to load up eventually. Im giving up rn and gonna sign on to acr for the first time in awhile.

Damn, that was like 7 months of the software behaving correctly until now. Hopefully this is a one time setback.

Back up

Just got back into online last week and deposited on bovada. My profile lists "available to withdraw", "locked funds" and "locked bonus funds". How can I find out what I need to do/ how much I need to play in order to have funds switch to withdrawal-eligible? I can't find specifics on the site. I took down a tournament for $1k and am just trying to figure out when I can withdraw the full amount. Feeling like a noob here. Any help appreciated.

The bonus clears in $5 increments. You can't withdraw the original amount until you clear or forfeit your bonus. Pretty sure you can withdraw anything you win over and above the bonus.

Thanks for the response. I'm VERY dumb when it comes to this stuff.... when you say "clears in $5 increments", do you mean for every $5 I bet, $5 gets transferred to the withdrawable amount?

For every $5 in rake you generate, iirc

Bit weird this

Not $5 you bet, cause it's not a 1-1 clearance, but every $5 you clear gets transferred to your withdrawable balance. It's also why sometimes your balance takes a while to update.

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Bit weird this

Did the person time out or it folded in normal timing?

It's happened to me before where I went to do something and didn't get back in time to play my KK or AA.

Nah... According to people ITT its the micro bots malfunctioning.

You are canadian right? Think it's a minimum of 20 playing 500 to 1k, and then at least 5 playing 2k. It's absolutely incredible they are not banned yet, they are not even hiding their collusion. I woke up early the other day like 7 pst to play. There was not a single game running, I was assuming bots possibly got removed. Out of nowhere they take over the entire lobby, it went from no games running at all to multiple tables by stake being 4-5 handed with regs only at 500 to 2k. All of course with the same stupid style that takes you one or two orbits to spot.

SB had Jd8h. Table broke a couple of hands later.

Well done. Hoping more and more people wreck these idiots.

Sadly, the odds are against anyone who isn't cheating, long term. Best way you can wreck those people is to stop playing and play on different sites (although I realize this is much easier said than done if you live in the US).

+1 They're not even trying to rid the site of collusion anymore, which is something they used to do a very good job of(they never seemed to care about bots but now they should with as advanced as they can be built). Again whens the last time somebody received a refund here for that? I haven't received one in years. They either have nobody competent protecting the integrity of the games these days or they're running house bots and are in on trying to fleece players which wouldn't surprise me based on several factors I've already mentioned here like losing markets/revenue and sensing their time is dwindling here in the US as more and more states legalize online sports betting. They've been cheap AF for a very long time now as well. I'm sure most that post in this thread are atleast decent players, some are obv very good but i guarantee you recs/casual players are getting absolutely destroyed by these accounts that are cheating. I've loved playing here for so many years after black friday just like everyone else but with either their unwillingness to clean up games or them being in on it the sky may actually be falling here, whether it is or not i don't wish to continue playing there under the current climate. I've been withdrawing my roll off there in chunks and am keeping the bare minimum, not playing cash here anymore just tourneys on sundays or whenever they have special days. I would suggest others do the same just in case but that's up to you individually. They wouldn't be the first online poker operator to blatantly F their players over and out of the money. Who would have ever thought ACR would become a better/safer option?

Makes sense why the bots have become so rampant recently in Jan/Feb as ACR cracked down on their bots at the start of Jan and now the ones that run these bots have migrated to Ignition.

The same bots have been on this network for years.
I think the main things that have changed are:

1) It appears that they've gotten access to more higher stakes accounts in the last year.
2) The developer of the most common bot altered their strategy by increasing the overall aggression and colluding tactics of their bot profile within the last year.
3) There is less and less recs each year due to:

a) Some rec heavy markets leaving the pool.
b) Shitty, outdated software that results in recs opting for more modern and entertaining options.
c) Previous recs now using "help" while playing.

Anonymous poker without at least a nickname or a player ID tied to the accounts in the downloadable HHs was always insufficient when it comes to maintaining good game integrity. They've never had a sufficient game integrity department and the ability to download anonymous HHs 24hrs later alone just doesn't cut it in 2024. I'm honestly surprised it took this long for the games to completely deteriorate. It worked out for them in the past due to the amount of recreational players, the location restrictions and the bots being less ubiquitous and a smaller portion of the pool.

The collusion has really ramped up over the last 6 months, though. They used to police VPNs pretty hard, as well, and have gotten lax everywhere. It seems like they have run a cost/benefit analysis to securing the games and decided to scale back the security of the operation.

Maybe I didn't make it clear with my wording, but I definitely agree. They've increased their aggression in general and with regards to colluding within the last year. I could post dozens of some of the most blatant collusion hands I've ever seen just from the last few months.