Bodog Poker Games

Summary:
This is our Bodog Poker review summary. The Bodog brand started with sports betting and a casino. Bodog's poker room has good traffic, and many sports bettors and casino gamblers create loose action at the tables. The Bodog poker software is minimalist, fast but plain. They offer a lot of poker tournaments with overlays.

Bodog Poker Player Base

Two kinds of poker players make up Bodog's poker player base: sports bettors and casino gamblers who aren't good at poker, and sharks who feed on these fish. Peak times see 11,000+ players at Bodog's poker tables. Bodog poker tournaments are popular and have larger fields than you'd expect from a poker room this size. If you know how to play poker well, Bodog can be a profitable place to go fishing.

Bodog Poker Software

We describe Bodog's poker software as minimalist, but we mean it as a compliment. The Bodog poker software is fast and functional, but it doesn't provide fancy graphics or advanced features. And that's just fine with us.

The Bodog poker lobby has five main tabs:

• Texas holdem
• Omaha
• Stud
• Scheduled tournaments
• Sit and go tournaments

Each section has tabs and buttons for different subsections for things like heads up play or different betting structures. You can view the average pot size and the percentage of players per flop. Choosing the right table at Bodog is a cinch.

Players are represented by a box which includes their name, avatar, and chip stack. Details like your personal statistics and notes can be found on the right hand side of the table. You can multitable up to three tables inside of one window, and the table where it's your turn becomes the main table. But the software isn't a reason for playing poker at Bodog. It's the profitable loose action that's the reason for playing there. And as long as the software doesn't detract from that, it's done its job.

Bodog Poker Cash Games

Bodog offers the following poker games:

• Texas holdem in fixed limit, pot limit, and no limit formats
• Omaha
• Omaha 8 in fixed limit or pot limit formats
• Stud poker in five card and seven card version
• Seven card stud hi-lo

Like all other online poker sites, the Texas holdem tables are the most popular and active tables. Full tables, short handed tables, and heads up tables see plenty of traffic.

The no limit Texas holdem tables are listed by the max buy in for the table. The lowest stakes no limit games have a max buy in of $10 and blinds of 5c / 10c. The biggest no limit Texas holdem games at Bodog have a $2000 max buy in and $10 / $20 blinds. Bodog has plenty of action at all stakes in between the $10 and $2000 mark too.

Limit holdem games aren't as popular, but they're available at limits ranging from 5c / 10c up to $30 / $60.

Pot limit Omaha games range from buy ins as low as $25 to buy ins as high as $1000. Stud games are available at stakes as low as 25c / 50c and as high as $5 / $10.

The competition at almost all these levels is soft.

Bodog Poker Tournaments

Bodog offers enough guaranteed prize pools and overlays that it's becoming a well-known online poker tournament destination. Bodog offers over $5 million in guaranteed tournament prizes every month, which includes the Sunday $100k Guaranteed, which is a popular $100+$9 buy in event.

Satellite qualifiers are plentiful at Bodog too. These include monthly "Players Choice" super-satellites where the winners get to choose from entry into a number of WPT or EPT events. Satellites to the super-satellite qualifiers start from just $1, so any real money player can afford an entry.

Satellites to internal poker tournament events at Bodog use a "tournament dollars" system. Players can win prizes which can later be exchanged for entry into higher buy-in tournaments. If you win a super-satellite seat for $270 tournament dollars, you could exchange that for multiple entries into lower buy in tournaments or for an entry into one or two larger tournaments.

Bodog only offers Texas holdem tournaments, but they offer a variety of formats. You'll need to seek Omaha and stud tournaments elsewhere.

Bodog's sit and go tournaments are available with buy-ins as low as $2+20c and as high as $220+$15. These sit and go's are available in single table and multi table formats. Sit and go's can be played with nine players, six players, or two players, and the multitable tournaments have 12, 18, 27, or 45 players, depending on which one you register for.

Bodog Poker Bonuses And Promotions

New players at Bodog receive a 10% deposit matching bonus with no maximum limit. Deposit $100 and you'll get a $10 bonus. Deposit $5000 and you'll get a $500 bonus. While the amount of the bonus might be smaller than other poker rooms offer, clearing the bonus takes a lot less time. The fastest way to clear you bonus at the Bodog poker tables is by playing tournaments, where you  receive 100% of your tournament entry fee as a bonus release.

Bodog also offers frequent player points which can be used to buy freeroll satellite entries.

Bodog Poker Customer Service

Bodog offers customer service 24/7 by phone or email. No one has a better reputation for customer service than Bodog.

Bodog Poker Banking

Bodog offers multiple deposit methods. Some require completion of a verification form. Some of these banking methods include:

• Instant check
• Click2Pay
• Neteller
• Moneybookers
• Speedcard
• eWalletExpress
• Visa
• Mastercard 

Finally

If you like soft, low stakes cash games, then Bodog is perfect for you. Professional low stakes grinders stay away because they don't like the three table maximum multitable functionality. Even if you're new and have minimal poker experience, if you play smart, you can make a profit at Bodog.