Bodog Poker Review

Online Poker Reviews

Bodog Poker is a clean, slick, and classy place to play poker, with a bird's eye view of the action and the option to upload your own personal and unique player icon. A vast difference from Bodog Poker and other sites, however (including Bodog-past) is the notable lack of an actual table on your screen, with the cards, chips, and players' icons sort of floating against a red carpetted background. Your position at the “table” will always appear to you in the center of your screen. View the action in full-size or in a miniaturized view. Your hole cards remain visible (to you, that is) throughout the hand, even if you fold, so you can see how you would have done had you stayed in.

The games run smoothly and quickly and the controls avaialbe to you are intuitive and easy to use. Bodog has managed to eliminate delays and downtime (for the most part). Features of the software include player notes, chat, multi-tabling (3 max), and player search. You can observe your stats during gameplay. The lobby shows flop percentages and average pot size, but does not show hands per hour played.

Bodog Poker Tournaments

Bodog Poker sponsors a guaranteed minimum $3.5 million in tournament prize pools each month, including numerous tournaments running daily, including:

• Multi-Table Tournaments – with buy-ins ranging $100 to $1,000
• Guaranteed Prize Pool Tournaments – besides the coveted $100K, there are numerous others with prize pools from $500 up
• Qualifiers – Satellites for World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker land-based events
• Freerolls – Who says you can't get something for nothing. Includes frequent Re-Buy Tournaments and Add-On Tournaments
• Bodog Poker Points Tournaments – Accumulate Poker Points and redeem them for higher stakes tournament entries and cash prizes
• Re-Buys
• Sit and Go Tournaments
• Turbo and Super Turbo Tournaments – Sit and Gos where the blinds increase at a much faster pace (every 5 minutes for Turbo and every 3 minutes for Super Turbo, as opposed to every 10 minutes for standard Sit and Gos
• Short-Handed – Sit and Gos for 2-6 players, rather than the standard 10

For the novice poker player, there are also Beginner Sit and Go Tournaments with buy-ins of $2.20, $4.40, $8.80 and $17.60, as well as Beginner Scheduled Tournaments where the buy-in is always $4+$0.40.

Bodog calls itself “The World's Leading Entertainment Community” and Poker is only a part of it. As a Bodog player, you can also enjoy an array of familiar casino games (craps, roulette, blackjack, etc.), as well as sportsbetting and betting on horse races.

Bodog Poker Promotions:

• $100K Guaranteed Online Poker Tournament - weekly
• Player's Choice – Win a Player's Choice qualifier and choose which land-based tournaments you'd like to attend and Bodog will send you there as your reward (a $12,000 prize package which includes a free seat in the tournament of your choice). Options include the WPT Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City, NJ; the WPT Gulf Coast Poker Championship in Biloxi, MS; the WPT Legends of Poker in Bell Gardens, CA; and the WPT Bellagio Cup III and the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas, NV
• World Series of Poker Satellites – Last year, players who earned their seat in the WSOP through Bodog won more than $15 million
• Refer a Friend Bonus – Get as much as $100 for each referral, based on 20% of their first deposit;

Customer Service

Such an enormous entertainment complex needs as large and solid a customer service center to keep those customers like you happy and coming back for more. And Bodog accomplishes this in spades (yes, pun intended). Reach a real, live human being 24/7 by telephone, or send off an email at any time of day or night and get a response that is as speedy as it is helpful.