Bodog Poker Review
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Bodog Life Poker formerly known as Bodog Poker is quickly becoming one of the top five rooms in online poker. With a strong presence in the gaming industry, the company owned by Calvin Ayre has been growing at a phenomenal rate. Bodog Poker offers players a great sign up bonus featuring an instant cash offer upon your first deposit and a tournament schedule that features a weekly 100K and frequent overlays. Bodog Poker is one of the few rooms that are dedicated to all players including those from the US.
Recently Bodog Life changed their bonus system. Up until now they only offered players with a 10% instant cash bonus. With the new changes players can receive a 100% match up to $500 plus the 10% instant cash bonus. How it works is once you make your first deposit Bodog will instantly credited your account with 10% of your deposit amount, from there you will also have 30 days to clear the 100% match offer. This is in addition to the new Bodog Points Rewards program where you can redeem your Bodog points for cash with up to $2500 available each month.
The competition in this room is for the most part fairly loose from the $2/$4 stakes and below. Micro games are always filled with beginners and the average viewed flop percentage is 56% peaking at 60% depending on the time of day. Once you go above the $2/$4 levels you can expect a different group of opponents with quite a few semi pro players.
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The standard selection of ring games is available in including Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, Seven Card Stud as well as the high lo version and Five Card Stud. Although they do offer a decent variety the majority of action is generally found at the Holdem and Omaha Pot Limit. The stakes at the ring games start at 0.05/0.10 and will continue to climb as high as $50/$100. Bodog Poker does not offer an ultra high staked game but for the most part all of the limits they do support are active consistently throughout the day. During peak hours the room can easily see up to 3300, and since the recent announcement of WSOP seats available at this room, this is increasing daily. Bodog Poker takes the industry standard 5% for rake with a cap fixed at $3 per hand.
Tournaments are widely popular in this site, in particular the $100,000 GP available on Sundays. The main reason – overlays. An overlay is a tournament whereby the room guarantees a fixed prize pool and in order for it to go above that prize enough players need to pay the buyins. After enough buyins have been purchased that the tournament is covered through players the prize pool increases. Bodog’s 100K weekly game very rarely meets the buyin giving the players added value for their money. Besides this they just announced they will be sending over 100 players to the 2008 Main event. Every week three players will win an all inclusive package. There are qualifiers and satellites running nonstop throughout the day to this weekly game and you can also buy-in using your frequent player points. Beyond this the room offers various guaranteed, re-buys and freeze-out throughout the day. If your n avid tournament player you may also want to check out the Players Choice promotion where players are winning their choice of a land based event. Sit and Go tournaments are available with a decent turnover in traffic. The wait times for most of these games to fill are very minimal.
The software is proprietary and owned by Bodog. Some of the main features include stability, speed and a simple but clan looking program. The graphics used are very sleek both in the lobby and at the tables. The navigation is quick and simple and even beginners shouldn’t have any difficulties finding their way around the room. The lobby supplies all your vital statistics for the real money games such as hands per hour, average pot size and of course viewed flop percentage. Bodog Life recently went through an upgrade which was a big improvement for the room. The avatars are now highlighted with a spotlight notifying you that it’s your turn and you can choose between three various backgrounds. The tables allow for note taking on your opponents along with easy to read statistics. Players will be able to play up to three tables at once and with the tool to resize windows to the size you want it makes Bodog fit for multi-table players. Overall, Bodog Poker provides a top class poker room with all the features and options you would need.
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Support is great at this room, and I have never experienced anything less than that. Bodog supplies players with the options of contacting them through email, live chat and even phone support. You can also contact them to make deposits by phone. Response time is quick and the staff is very efficient.
Deposit methods include; Credit cards, checks, NETeller, FirePay, myCitadel, MoneyBookers and CentralCoin.
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