In a surprise development, online poker site Bovada which shut down last year has decided to restart operations and has confirmed that it will be offering its services to nine countries. The online poker website will provide gaming services to residents in the following countries: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia as well as United States.
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We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Bovada shut-down their poker room at the start of October. As a results, there was a huge increase in the number of withdrawal requests as poker players withdrew their bankrolls from the poker site. The good news is Bovada Poker was acquired by Ignition Casino, who are a new online casino also licensed and regulated by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in Canada. The new Ignition Poker site is a mirror image of Bovada Poker and Bovada are helping players transfer their player balances over to Ignition. In September 2016, Bovada Poker was shut down and changed over to Ignition Casino. Nothing has really changed for Bovada poker players, as they are able to move their accounts across to Ignition Casino pretty seamlessly, and even claim a new juicy deposit bonus in the process. Bovada Casino Slots. We have tried pinging Bovada website using our server and the website returned the above results. If bovada.lv is down for us too there is nothing you can do except waiting. Probably the server is overloaded, down or unreachable because of a network problem, outage.
Bovada had continued operations in the aftermath of Black Friday, offering residents in the United States online poker even after PokerStars and other online poker operators withdrew from the market. This helped Bovada along with sister site Bodog to become the largest offshore poker network facing U.S.
However Bovada unexpectedly shut down operations in August 2016 transferring its business and player base to Ignition Casino without disclosing any reasons for the closure. Ignition continued to provide gaming services to U.S. customers.
In its latest avatar, Bovada has said that it will be operating through the PaiWangLuo Poker Network which also hosts Ignition and Bodog. PaiWangLuo is a Hong Kong-based investment group that acquired Bodog Poker Network in February this year and rebranded it. Bovada is expected to serve markets which do not currently have regulated poker.
Consequently, it is likely to serve customers located in Australia where an amendment to the country’s gaming legislation was recently passed making it mandatory for online gambling providers to obtain a license to offer services in the country. The changes in regulation have resulted in established operators like PokerStars withdrawing from the market, thereby giving an opportunity for Bovada to enter.
In the U.S, the site will offer access to all U.S. residents barring those in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware. These three states are excluded since they have special licensing regulations that permit online poker operations. Bovada will also exclude Maryland residents since Maryland authorities are known to target grey market gaming operators and initiate legal proceedings.
Industry observers are speculating that one of the reasons for the reopening could be because U.S. Spartan warrior game. authorities recently dropped charges against Calvin Ayre, the founder of Bodog. He had been accused of running an illegal gambling service and conspiring to money launder. Another possible reason could be that Bovada which currently operates a sports betting site for U.S. customers is seeking to enhance its offerings. The site could possibly be hoping to offer existing sports betting customers the option to play online poker as well.
A little more than a year after closing its online poker room, Bovada has decided to re-open it, initially accepting players from nine countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and yes, the United States of America. So is this what making America great again was all about?
Bovada took full advantage of Black Friday, continuing to offer online poker to poker players in the United States after the likes of PokerStars no longer did, becoming, along with sister site Bodog, one of the largest poker networks on the internet and the largest U.S.-facing network.
In August of last year, Bovada surprisingly shut down its poker room, transferring its business and player base over to Ignition Casino. Ignition essentially became Bovada, using the same software, keeping the same players, but using a different name. The sale was a bit of a mystery, though, as almost nothing is publicly known about its owner, Lynton Limited. Ignition continued to serve U.S. customers.
And now Bovada has returned, open for business in the eight Latin American countries listed above plus the U.S. While there has been no indication one way or the other (aside from it not being included in the country list), some think there is a possibility that Bovada may enter the Australian market. Online poker rooms, including partypoker and PokerStars, are fleeing Australia because of new online gambling laws that will take effect in September that make it illegal to operate there without a license. There is no online poker licensing available, so companies are getting out lest they be in violation of the law.
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Though Bovada will accept U.S. customers, it will not allow people in New Jersey, Nevada, or Delaware to play on its site, as those are the ones with specific licensing regulations for online poker. It will also stay away from Maryland, likely because much of the legal trouble that the U.S. government has given online poker operators and related companies has stemmed from the state.
Bovada will be on the PaiWangLuo Poker Network along with Ignition and Bodog. PaiWangLuo, a Hong Kong investment group, purchased the Bodog Poker Network in February and renamed it.
The initial reaction many have had to this news is that Bovada must be re-opening its online poker room and accepting customers in the U.S. because Bodog founder Calvin Ayre is out of hot water with the U.S. Department of Justice. But that’s probably not the case, as Bovada’s sports book and online casino have still been up and running since the poker room closed.
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The company probably just decided that it wasn’t a fantastic decision to transfer its players to Ignition (or maybe it was – maybe Ignition paid Bovada a lot of money) and now wants to start the room up again to increase brand awareness and get sports bettors to spend some of their winnings at the tables.