Bovada review: Absolutely corrupt poker 102

Chris Longo
There are likely bots playing at Bovada. Hard to stop that when players are not identified by name. i found this article quite interesting regarding online poker scams. It doesn't mention Bovada, but perhaps should! http://usapokerdeals.com/avoid-online-scams/

At this point I believe any poster who defends bovada, to be bovada! Ive been playing poker for close to a decade. I've logged over 150, 000 hands on free sites and have multi billion dollar stacks on every one. I play live poker with friends and in casinos. I'm overall a solid player, no "pro" I suppose but positive overall. I enjoy the game and look for every outlet possible to play it specifically to broaden my perspective of the game. I fully understand the ebb and flow of poker and that one can experience extended "runs of bad luck" in this game. However what I have experienced on bovada is a complete contradiction to all my previous experience with this game. Personally I've concluded that this site can only be a scam. I feel that if you are winning on this site you are of a small percentage allowed to only to generate a false sense of legitimacy by a few players. Too many red flags, suspicious play, and way too many all ins with air post flop only to hit two miracle cards to win. Sure these things happen but not this consistently. I call b.s.

I've cashed out twice here but the only thing worth playing is the sportsbook. I recommend taking a screenshot of all your sports wagers though because they will change it on you in a second. The poker use to be worth playing about 3-4 years ago but now it's garbage. Very, very obvious that they cheat players. Just like everyone else says on this thread, you start out doing good and making money but all of a sudden the bottom drops out and you end up in the hole. Also, i will say that you can go on amazing runs on this site, but that's the trick. They want you to think you are going to make money but then all of a sudden your pocket aa's get cracked by 6, 10 suited with a river flush. Wait until you hit trips on the flop and someone beats you with a straight. It's not that this stuff never happens in poker, of course it does but not as often as it happens here. My absolute favorite was the 24hr period that i lost four full houses to higher full houses. 4 in 24 hrs. Chances are 694:1 that i get a full house the chance of me losing 4 in 24 hrs is probably close to impossible. Next we have the worst of them all the casino. It's literally a stick up, like put your hands up stick up. I won't even go into that it's just the worst of them all don't waste your money. Last thing i'll say is that the cashout process is insane. They made me jump through hoops to get my money processed. They want you to sit there have the money in your account so you spend it.

I agree. They let you win at first. Then the endless bad beats. Then, the delay in pay Horrible site. Played 40 years in small games. Never seen anything like this. Its rigged.

yea i lost thousands there but everyhand i lost was a flopped set and i got runnr runnr by a gutshot straight with nothing to shoot for on flop...theres using internal players and bots only played heads up and now when i try to dispute deposits my bank refuses to pay them back because they state that online poker is not legal where i live :/ -mike

Yeah screw the bovada casinos as well because at first i won a lot and then have gone downhill since. They kept rigging rigging hands after hands and lost a lot of my money. The hell with them and threatened them to put all my money back to my cc. They refused so i reported to the bank and they refunded all my money back and put red flag on them as thieves and cheaters. Do not play casinos at bovada especially blackjack. You will always win at first because that is how they entice you to play more and more and eventually you are hooked and lose all your money and be in the negative. Also, their payout is horrible! They use canada check and the banks here all not cash it but have to process it through canada first to get their money before they pay you. It takes up 6 to 8 weeks. I deposited my check on january 21st and i have not received the money today february 18! It is 4 weeks now. I told bovada...You need to make it convenient for us players to get money quick not the long way. They want our money quick but won't pay us quick!? Screw them! I told them not to use stupid canada bank! They said, well we can cash out by putting money back in your cc!? Screw them and trust us as we have experienced and don't want you to lose your money! Bovada cheats and they are not what you think! I wish people stop going there! Spread the words loud and clear!

Its simple how they scam people if you think about it... they just dish out all these sick ridiculous hands using their computer algorithm which they have set up to rake in huge amounts. so the computer automatically generates these disgusting boards leading to incredible unrealistic sickouts, you flop top pair, its never good, flop 2 pair.outs. expect to get bashed by a straight or flush on the river. i have been playing poker my entire and listen i understand bad beats i have been there but this is ridiculous. they bring in the new poker fish because they don't know what they are getting into and don't notice things like this. Good players run bad on this site more often than the should.. you cant make good plays because your always beat. it got to the point where i was basically bluffing with top pair and scared to bet because i know one of the bots or whoever probably flopped a set or is going to snap call all the way to the river and catch a straight or flush. I have lost about $500 on this site and im lucky that's it i have played on tons of other sites and now a days after black friday they are all a little wacky but Bovada is by far the worst.

biggest rip off in the game of poker.. i did a experiment to see how many "Big" pots i would lose having the better hand pre-flop im talking pots like $50 dollar or more (i play high stakes) i lost 9 out of 10 hands when i was %80 percent or better to win the hands preflop. I quit the site after my AA was beat by a full house on the river im done.

Try sitting at an empty fixed limit cash table (say $2/$4). Within seconds (before the lobby would even refresh to tell people there is someone sitting there) someone will sit down with $20 (a very low amount for most players at this limit). This player will play absolutely perfect every time, knowing exactly when you have a good hand and when you don't. Maybe a few real players will sit, but it will be mostly plants, each sitting with the table minimum. I've played a million hands of poker and know for a fact it isn't real.

After playing poker for 10+ years, I'm 100% convinced Bovada has plants in their cash games that can see all the cards.

Listen fellas, bovada is a definate cheat anywhere you play! Casinos way worse than poker if you can imagine that... Im an 8 year player on this site and have really noticed the changes... Does anybody know how too prosecute and bring these yoohoos too justice... They are in the kindest words just stealing your $ period. Bots are a definate... And all else you suspect is wrong is wrong. Please lets get together and bring these crooks too justice! I used my own money playing poker until i noticed all the red flags of being robbed literally... I then got a backer too put money on my account every day for months we have been tracking my all in hands preflop-i was always over a 90% winner or higher preflop heads up against the bots, player... And won just 3.8% of these hands in ten plus one tournaments, every single day for two months all hands have been noted and are applicable under my hand history... Please do not feed these crooks your money i beg you? This is all true and there is gotta be something done about it how is a company just allowed too steal your money? Answer wheres the justice ? I got all the proof, and also have someone helping me but still cant break through few corners here and there... I will post again

These bas***** are crooked as hell. I've been playing extensively over the last week and I started to track some stats after seeing some ridiculous stuff: ive seen quads closing in on 15 times, ive seen multiple players flop sets 4 times, Frequent high pair vs high pair. but its my own experience vs fish or chasers hitting on the river at an absolutely absurd percentage that has made me realize what is happening here. The anonymous users should be the first sign that something is not right, obviously. And I just watched a guy today get pocket aces in 3/4 hands. Give me a break.

Had a acct for 5 years, lost, finally won, transfer to my bank acct, took month and a half. Next one requested a check, $152. Send check, took 3 weeks, bank draft drawn on Singapore. No US banks will accept. If the would transaction fees will eat it up. Called Bovada, want me to have a bank "stamp" the check why they won't accept. Theartened to turn over to FBI, they suspended my account. DO NOT DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE. BOVADA, BODOG, and others under the umbrella. Check not good after six months, they get there money back. Real good at taking your money, receiving pay outs, another story. They will get you.

I understand many people say the complainers are noobs who can't handle the swings. However I do have serious suspicions of Bovada. I play alot in casinos and never seen the ridiculously improbable hands I see on Bovada. I recently lost 6 sets in a row to straights and better sets. Just to be dealt 6 pairs in a row is really far-fetched for those 6 to become sets is even worse and THEN to lose all sets. Mathematically it just can't happen. And yet it did. I looked at my girlfriend and we were both like "How the fck is that possible?". So please, Math wizzes give me some feedback on this. Thanks.

I am glad to see so many people who KNOW these poker sites are crooked. Even for free, they should not be crooked. POGO, which is run by EA is probably the worst poker site for crooked and manipulated hands. (Talking about the Texas Holdem).

The hands are so outlandishly crooked and it is so obvious.

It really pisses me off to see comments defending these sites (Oh, its just poker) BS it is not poker.

I would not pay to join POGO and play its crooked games (all games) and would not purchase from any of their advertisers.

Wake up! the rest of you gullible people.

Bovada if not a scam, it's close to it. I've been trying to get my payout, only $150, for over a month now. The problem arise from the debit card I used to deposit my money, I do not have that anymore, I have a new card. If this happens to you, forget trying to get your money back unless it's a lot. They keep giving you excuses why the information you send to prove that it was your card is not good enough. I've sent them everything. What's worse, there was a fraud activity in my bank account a week after I send ALL my information. Any question you have, they reply with generic answers over and over like a mindless robot. You know the story, standard run around 101. It's been over a month, still no money. Not worth my time, I make way more than that in a day and I've spent a month now. This is what they want you to do, just give up. Bovada is a crooked company. I'll chalk it up as a $150 lesson. I guess it's a lot less than what some of you are experiencing. Do not do business with this company.

My results over the last 7 days: Out of 24 tourneys played (21% SNGs & 79% MTTs) I cashed just 8% of the time. Thats just 2 cashed tourneys for the mathematically impaired. I've never run worse than 20%+ over at least a week data review period. This is really an amazing stat when compared to my mixed avg over the last year of 42% cashed on other sites. I know cashing MTTs is more difficult since they generally payout only 10% to 12% of players and SNGs usually pay 30% and you could argue that playing a 4 to 1 ratio of MTT to SNG would result in a lower than avg result for a player that generally divides time between the 2 types of tourneys but cashing only 8% is just plain bad!

Did I all of the sudden start playing bad? I think it's a legitimate question a player should ask himself when losing. I've definitely made adjustments to my play over the years to yield better/positive results when I wasn't playing optimally. But, this is different. I'm playing super solid poker and I'm getting hammered over and over when it's time to get paid. Consider this, out of the 24 tourneys I busted on the bubble or within 3 spots of it 88% of the time. And, I wasn't short stacked in most tourneys. Several times I took multiple bad beats in succession to bust. WTF! Most of these aren't even close either. All runner runner and 1 to 4 out variety. And, some of the hands don't even make sense - people calling off over half their stack and risking a sure win on a gutter ball draw (i.e. it's like they know it's coming). I could go but many of you already know the other examples of what happens when you're

I suspect that the "randomizing" algorithm used to deal the cards may also be designed to level the playing field by systematically manipulating the results of certain players on a hand by hand basis, dictating whether you are a winner or a loser. The reason they might do this is to keep the max number of players on the site. If all the bad players lost their money, most of the time, they would eventually leave. If a significant number of players leave the site, then profits dwindle and…i think you get the picture. Bovada may also be using bots in the cash games. This allows them to rake and make money and too take your chip stack by beating you out of a hand. I think most people feel this is happening. The bigger question is, are they manipulating the outcome of hands by seeing the cards and knowing the cards that are coming?!?! Many times I've been beat by hands that just don't make sense the way they were played or that they were even played at all. On some of these occasions I've tried to talk to the players about the hand (very non threatening) but I get no response. Using bots is so easy on this site since no one knows who they are playing against. This also makes collusion easy as you and I could work tables and the other players would never know since they'd have no way of tracking our individual play. Somehow people think Bovada is legitimate because it's licensed. Please?! I'm tired, going to bed now, but in closing I'd like to ask you to track your play on Bovada and compare it to any other reputable sites you play and/or your live play (if you are able to play enough for comparison). If you are a winner on the other sites and places you round but loser on Bovada and you feel that you're always getting bad beat, why do you think that is? Now, ask yourself why you keep playing on Bovada? It's because they are the largest site in the US for US players. As long as that is the case they can and will do as they please. Stop playing on Bovada now. Sink their pirate ship and make way for better options.

I agree with the rest of you that Bovada has changed for the worst. Their current pattern is so similar to other Casinos who have gone under. I only play slots and have emailed them twice about their obvious drastic change but like other players, support insisted that it was a streak of bad luck. I have been a loyal customer for years and hesitated to leave them for another Casino but now I have no choice. For 6 months now, not only are the slots a lot tighter but other red flags are evident. Now, whether redeeming a bonus code or not, you almost consistently lose your deposit within minutes. The rollover amount rarely gets lower than 20% before losing your entire deposit. Whereas before, more often than not, you could play for several hours if not a day and still at times withdraw some winnings., And, because of losing so fast, Casino points now only add up to pennies. For a long time, the Internet had nothing but good things to say about the fairness and worthiness of the site, with a typical 9 out of 10 rating. Now, their ratings are much lower and more players are coming forward about their recent bad experiences and legitimate concerns. Because Bovada's drastic change is unjustifiable, would it help to alert Kahnawake Gaming Commission of our valid concerns?

I get payouts in about 5 days no problem there but what I notice is I get rivered on big pots to often here. Today I make a 20 dollar deposit and get up 30 bucks I play tight win small pots and do fine. I was then even at 20 after being up 30 bucks from a bad call on my part. Then on another table I had a-j with 17 bucks left and flopped a-j-4 rainbow. there was a few raisers pre flop including myself so after the flop I went all in and got rivered with a-q a queen on the river. This happens on here to much, , , , Crazy one outers only on big pots your standard hands hold up on medium and small pot's. It's a computer and may not be as random as it seems. Hardly rigged but more like a slot machine with pre determined hole cards and situations from a rng or a sea of hand combos. The a-q scenario is probably one of just many algorithms in there. I have noticed a set of tens on a board of 7-9-6 losing big to a one out jack high straight. These are naturally going to be big pots other players see value in their hands the flop looks good but only one will be the winner in a ridiculous fashion. Other hands like JJ that flop a set sometimes pay off big with another bad player calls your 15 dollar bet with ACE 5 off suit when they only have one pair whereas better players just fold. It's the other situations in real poker but more so in online poker that entice the best players to lose all their chips. Sometimes it's more obvious but my a-j-4 rainbow scenario says it all i was called with a-q they made a bad call but really had an 8% chance and somehow got the lucky river.

Bovada sucks! Don't ever play Caribbean Poker. I played 25 hands and lost my ###. I'm a good player but when out of those 25 hands the dealer gets 7 Full Houses, 3 Straights, 4 trips, and 3 two of a kind, it doesn't leave a lot of room for the player to win. What a rip-off!

u gota know the system to win wink

I am about to join this site, going to go on a "win streak" and cash out to teach them a lesson if you guys are right! :)

Guess what players! Obviously Bovada chooses certain players that win, and certain players that will lose. That way when people blog on Forums some people will defend the Bovada site and some will slag it. This creates confusion, which is the best thing for a dishonest site. I myself have noticed that when I first deposit money in my account and start playing I win, and then in subsequent playing sessions I lose and lose and lose. I want to support all people that feel that Bovada is a rigged site. The fact that many players win and even cash out successfully on Bovada in no way proves that the site is not dishonest. Bovada's undoing will be due to the fact that most U.S players have a direct compare/contrast. In other words, if U.S. players are consistently winning in live games (cardrooms) and constantly losing on Bovada, Bovada is busted! KEEP speaking out regarding the dishonesty of Bovada. This company will close down or fall like Enron and WorldCom.

I just lost every game I played this morning, in one heads up game I was beaten twice by 4 of a kind.
The rest of the games weren't much better, I mean why raise before the flop with pocket kings or aces or queens, they call with crap and catch two pair or straights, in my opinion has to be fixed

Heads up seriously what are the odds twice in one game one on one !

BOVADA IS A RIGGED AND CRROKED SITE. I HOPE THEY GET CAUGHT> THEY DEFINITLY USE A DOOM SWITCH> I MAN WHO WORKS THERE TOLD ME THEY KNOW YOUR IP ADRESS IS AND THEY CONTROL WHO WILL WIN AND LOSE> THEY ARE CROOKED AND THEY STEAL FROM PEOPLE> I CAN NOT WAIT UNTIL JUSTICE COMES UPON THEM> THEY ARE NOTHIN G BUT EVIL CROOKS> BOVADA CAN NOT BE TRUSTED> THEY WILL STEAL FROM YOU! RUN

All of these .5/1 and lower grinders crying because they are playing the worst of the worst player pool makes me laugh. Of course you are going to see absolute nonsense hands at those levels, and of course you are going to get sucked out on because everyone plays everything and nobody folds for your 3 dollar raise. People will get runner runner, and WILL get paid off when they hit because all of you are so married to your pocket aces and AA that you think its your right to win with those hands. GUESS WHAT ITS NOT.
Bovada has paid me very quickly when I cash out, always. Games are soft and if you can't win there, then you probably just need to accept you are bad and either quit or just play for fun.

Bovada/Bodog is completely rigged especially on the Casino side. Be smart and stay away. This folks should be shutdown and sued. Is there anyway to dispute and get our losses back? (i.e. disputing charges with the banks, etc.)

I've cashed out $2000 twice in the last two months. Money always gets to me within 7 days. Bad beats happen in Poker all the time . Yes it does appear sometimes that its rigged...Full tilt was much worse and they still owe me $3300. Bovada is probably the best poker site out there . Best payouts at least

Bovada is blatantly fraudulent... And I have withdrawn 30k from the site in the past 6 months. Anyone who doesnt see the patterns that occur is either working from a very small sample size or is on the occasional "Bovada Upswing". Enjoy it while it happens, cause the top of the roller coaster will eventually come. Bovada has still been worth my time bc I believe I can overcome the mine-field of bots you face, but it definitely gets depressing and a grind seeing enormous percentages tumble pre and post flop. The only way this site can be "somewhat" held accountable is to go back to a non-anonymous software. Boycott people? Let's get it back to the good old days! haha ... Also love the people saying "You ### because you suck". I believe these are the fish I welcome at my table.

There is something definitely not right about Bovada poker, though I don't believe it's explained by 'bots'. I'm not a pro . . . just a rec player with a small stake. But I do have a far better than average knowledge of probability and odds. What I have experienced is not consistent with truly random card play. My guess is that the software is 'rigged' this way to encourage people to continue betting throughout a hand, even if they have a low-probability of winning at each stage of a hand . Why? Because more betting means a bigger rake for the house. The number of hands won on Bovada when the probabilities of winning are below 10% just isn't possible with random cards. If you play on Bovada, just try to notice some things: On hands you fold post-flop, how often would the turn and river have given you a winning hand? How often do you lose or notice others losing a massively superior hand due to a truly amazing turn and/or river? How often do you fold a s**t hand pre-flop but then the flop comes up with a hand that would have guaranteed you a win, or at least was good enough to make a significant post-flop bet? These things happen, of course, with random card play. But the frequency that they happen on Bovada is staggering. Again, I think this kind of rigged card play is designed to encourage additional betting beyond what would normally be reasonable and rational in order to create a bigger rake for the house. I'll play out my stake, but I won't be depositing any more money with Bovada.

In my Bovada experience, I can honestly say that I have beaten the games for right around $4, 000, give or take a few hundred...BUT...since Nevada just recently went legal with online poker, and for the last 3-4 weeks, I have lost approximately - and without exaggeration - 95-98% of all headsup hands (both cash games and sng's). My higher pairs have lost to lower pairs MORE THAN 90% OF THE TIME. My AK would lose to lower Aces MORE THAN 90% OF THE TIME. I missed MORE THAN 95% of my 2-1 shot flush and straight draws, while my "opponents" would hit MORE THAN 95% of theirs against me. I have no idea what is going on, but I do know that I have uninstalled, and they will never see another penny from me under any circumstances. WARN EVERY POKER PLAYER YOU KNOW TO AVOID THIS SITE!

###s stop complaing cause you lost your money. IT's GAMBLING FOR GOD SAKES YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO WIN EVERYTIME!

CHECK OUT THE SUPER FREAK FROM 122 E CHESTNUT ST HANOVER PA ! SUPER PHOTO MAN ! YOURE A COMPLETE JOKE

I agree with the complaints, I wont go too much into my exp. on the site. But, yes there are bots, I always try once Im at a table to get every person to type something to let me know they're real, and tell them its in their best interest to do so as well and only half respond. You will win some at first, on every deposit and yes apparently there is a lose switch and then you guessed it money gone. The worse beats ever on a very consistent basis. So, here's 2 examples trust me I remember them well. 1) me AA 2) K10 off I put in a pretty hefty raise preflop (.50/1.00) everyone folds but him/bot idiot right, , , , , well the flop comes A 10 5 different suits, so no flush reads and possibly a straight for him thinking he called so its possible he has KQ, so I jump the bet up 12.50 and take the pot down I look at it as its a nice little pot sux it wont be even higher with my hand but its the right play. So the guy calls, Im like no way he's calling on a draw so maybe he's caught a set or 2 pair either way he's dominated, so 4th comes out and its a 10 so this idiot just ruined his day playing a hand he shouldnt have and now he will suffer for it. Ive got the Big Boy Boat to his/bot set I just go ahead and put him all in and this guy calls, Im already ear to ear. So what happens, he catches a 3rd straight 10 on the river for quads and the win, just soak that up for a second seriously, the hand was for like 135.00.
Hand number 2) me JJ him 10 7 off this time everyone has called a 3.00 preflop raise that I just go ahead all in and everyone folds except for this idiot/bot I see his cards and think seriously do you just hate money or are you just this nice, I mean really just think about that call. anyway the flop 10 J 4 including 2 diamonds 1 of which was my J, so he's done right? wrong! 4th street a 8 comes out and then the river is, , , , , , , what do you think? Wrong its a 3, , so whats the problem I won, , , , nope, see the 8 was a diamond and the 3 was a diamond and he now has a small flush but flush none the less, 4 straight diamonds and its like salt in the wounds cause my J was one of them I mean are you serious? What the hell are the chances, really and for him/bot to ever even call the all in- in the first place should tell you all you need to know pot was 80.00 or so
example # 1 was the worse beat Ive ever had and cost me alot of money I'll forever remember this hand
example # 2 was painful and pissed me off for real, but the scary thing is ex. #2 happens all the time on there literally the same exact situation, to me plenty but you see it happen to others all the time as well.
Last, there's a saying on the site its called the Bovada Bailout
also another is that the 2nd best hand almost always wins.
When I go all in Ive got the best hand 90% of the time trust me Im not an idiot and even by calculations at the absolute worst I should lose around 30% of those, , , at the worst so simple math tells you that Im killing it and would be if the math would just halfway hold true but its flip-flopped on there for real I win and this is no lie and no exageration I win around 35% of those hands
Ive said my peace and if reading just my post doesnt tell you everything you need to know then by all means go throw your money away.

Have the same exact experience with everyone else. I used to play on full tilt before they got shut down. I play very low stake sng $1 - 5 single/multi-table tournament and has been consistency winning over a period of few years. On Bovada, it seems like they let me win in the beginning and I was up over $100 at one point and all of sudden over the next couple weeks it goes all down hill, bad beat after bad beat and now I'm in the negative. I would see a lot of strange plays by players calling all in with 7 5 and would hit full houses, I've seen this multiple of times. I've seen the same player would hit full house, flush, and trips on every other hand playing with all kind of strange hands. I think 8/10 times I would make the right all-in calls and dominate the other players on preflop and they would pull some kind of miracle straight or hit there 3 outer. How can I be consistency winning on Full-Title but on Bovada i'm going down hill? Anyone else have the same experience that they consistency win on another poker site but on Bovada they can't win?

Bovada is a scam! Is there any other poker site out there that does'nt bot the way they do? Done with them forever! How do you lose 8 grand on bad beats within a 3 day period after you cash out 2 grand?

I agree. 100% rigged with bots and a casino games lose switch. When you first sign up, they let you win... a lot. Then you will lose. And lose over and over again. If you try to cash out after that first deposit that usually produces some winnings, that will be the last time you ever see money from them again, and that's if the check gets to you and then doesn't bounce. I believe Bovada and their subsidiaries/affiliates will eventually be brought up on charges as well as their US issuers (banks); in my opinion they are guilty of material misrepresentation, of their accounting and services, with the intent to defraud US customers, by concealing or disguising revenue by way of refunds, rebates, prizes, gifts, commissions or other seemingly legitimate expenses.

Therefore, I believe they have violated the Wire Wager Act, International Banking Act of 1978, Federal Corrupt Practices Act, § 1955. Prohibition of illegal gambling businesses, Mail and Wire Fraud under 18 USC § 1343, and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act,

(dispute all charges and discontinue usage; in my opinion the banks know they are complicit in fraud, or know they are walking a very fine line so won't put up a fight)

NO ONE SHOULD LISTEN TO tdemorro5012's. He has a "CONFLICTING INTEREST" ... More than likely, his tax filings would show monies connected to Bovada, their affiliates, subsidiaries, or sponsors and advertisers that do business with Bovada.

WE HAVE JURISDICTION: OBAMA's JUSTICE DEPT. ISN'T ACTING.
(2) Jurisdiction over foreign persons.— For purposes of adjudicating an action filed or enforcing a penalty ordered under this section, the district courts shall have jurisdiction over any foreign person, including any financial institution authorized under the laws of a foreign country, against whom the action is brought, if service of process upon the foreign person is made under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the laws of the country in which the foreign person is found, and— (A) the foreign person commits an offense under subsection (a) involving a financial transaction that occurs in whole or in part in the United States;
(B) the foreign person converts, to his or her own use, property in which the United States has an ownership interest by virtue of the entry of an order of forfeiture by a court of the United States; or
(C) the foreign person is a financial institution that maintains a bank account at a financial institution in the United States.

Actually the above poster is full of crap. By his own admission he plays the highest stakes which is impossible if he only leaves himself a $500 stake with every 1500 cashout (which is also very low if you play the highest stakes).
All of the above complaints are valid and if anyone wants to wast a couple of hundred to find out, then go ahead and blow your money. Bovada is nothing more than an abyss that you voluntarily throw your money into. Of course it is your money, (hopefully) so if you want to play a losing game and pay for it dearly, Play Bovada! By the way to qualify my comment, I've been playing poker for over 40 years, in no way consider myself a pro but won just under 10K at party poker in less than a year. As bad as party poker seemed sometimes, Bovada is blatantly rigged and anyone with any common sense and poker knowledge can see it.

very good post, extremely enlightening!