[Bodog/Bovada/Ignition] Unofficial Thread
This thread is to separate the Bovada-related comments and questions from the Official Bodog Support Thread, which is th
are you having problems loading live chat, cant even communicate with someone?
have you been able to make any withdrawals?
I can reach live chat, and if I change my mobile number I am able to re-verify it (the SMS code arrives when doing tis), however when requesting a withdrawal the SMS code does not arrive.
It's super frustrating, I tried all the suggestions from support, including using incognito mode, clearing cache, clearing cookies etc.
I asked them to revert to the account PIN code while they 'investigate further' but I never receive a reply to this suggestion.
Question for the rep. Why does the site go down almost daily? Has to be costing you guys a ton of money and I don't know how the fix could possibly be that hard. You need to clean house over there and actually hire competent professionals.
Down again, please take some time and address this.
What's actually going on? $50k overlay in the $200k. No mention of the Summer Open. The schedule has gone to complete garbage. Barely anything to play even on Sundays. Just awful.
Hi again yellow, I appreciate the candid feedback. Part of the reason we wanted to start engaging with players like you on 2+2 was to hear your criticisms and suggestions. In terms of the deanonymized player names on HH here is what the response from the network has been: "It is something that we (PWL network) are actively discussing internally at our review meetings. While its
Some things never change, including ignition not giving a damn about you as a player or the integrity of their site.
It's so long ago now, but remember when sites used to care about the players and their experience? The good old days.
To the Ignition Rep here:
I think your heads up sit and gos at $5 all the way up have some type of bots running. They don’t opensit (maybe because they’re indifferent between sitting 2nd at various games).
The playing style at $5 is the same as $25 and $50. On any other sites, the “regs” at $5 are generally pretty bad and don’t accept rematches.
My question is: what type of proof would you require for you to actually look into this? I’ve played heads-up sit and gos full-time for 14 years now. Your sites player pool at these games doesn’t operate like every other one.
Long time hu reg here going back to the 2010s -
Regarding the bots, the issues started coming in after covid. You'd see 12 tables taking up at a $100 stake for example. It was so reg infested it was unplayable basically. A % were bots. There was 1 in particular I know was a bot and it took me a while to figure out how to beat it. For the longest time, I couldn't understand why it would never make any adjustments. Like if it limped, I raised, and it reraised behind me and I shoved it would fold an extremely high % of the time. Another one was in a limp limp pot that went check check if I was in the sb and I had like a middle pair and I min bet turn and river it would just call almost any 2 cards, kinda giving away chips. Over time I beat it. A tell tale sign was it NEVER TIME BANKED. lol. No matter what. There was a reg at $200 for the last couple years before they made the structure changes . . . played exceptionally slow. I think it was likely a bot too given some of the bizarre lines like the 30% flop bet followed by the overbet on the turn which imo is just terrible because if you jam river after that it's almost impossible to be bluffing.
After the changes were made - Nov - Mar were really good action I thought at $50 and $100. I did pretty well. I was also the only reg there though. It wiped out every single reg/bot on the site except for one guy who ended up leaving months later. Last few months have been more hit and miss. Last few weeks in particular have been super dead. Went from a lobby where there were definitely 4 figure days out there if you played the main hours to pretty low volume and a repetition of the same mediocre, but not terrible players. The amount of randos at $100 has gone down a ton. May be temporary or kick up. Hard to know.
I don't think there's a bot problem though at the HU sngs at least. I mean you'll get these clowns that rematch a lot certain days. But there are times of the day it's empty and I don't know how you even program a bot to play 30 bb hu poker. The reality is you have to be pretty skilled to win at all at that format. Like you just have to have a great feel. You can't do strict GTO. You gotta be really on point and exploitative because every pot matters so much. So you gotta have a baseline strategy for the randos you have little info on to max out EV and then make adjustments based on how they seem to be approaching a range of hands preflop (some call off all ins way looser than others preflop btw), as well as postflop betting size tendencies and time taken on decisions. So you have fish and then a bad "semi" reg here and there that will play nonstop for 6 hours unless you destroy him, but it's usually 2 tables max. $50 and $100 seem clean to me. $25 I think is clean as well from the times I've sat there, although I don't play many of those games.
Overall though, it's a dying site. I think poker may not even be offered come 2028. They've lost a ton of players due to states pulling out. None are coming back. Even if players wanted to forgive bovada/ignition and return because of the bogus tax laws it wouldn't matter because they just won't accept registrations from those states. So they're just permanently treading water. I did very well in a 6 month stretch post blind changes, but those margins may be short lived. If football season looks like the last several weeks action wise it's a total wrap and you should be looking to pull your money out. I also think poker in general is brutal and the window has closed for the overwhelming amount of people. You need those soft low stakes games to build a roll and it's harder to find those now
