Bodog Open to Canadian Players Starting September 1!!

It's official! Starting September 1, Bodog will be open to the Canadian market. This has been a longtime coming, and we are very excited for this change!

For all our Canadian friends, if you want to give Bodog a try, we recommend you download here. You will earn a 115% sign-up deposit bonus until September 3rd (110% bonus after).

Check out our buy-in tournament details for September, and join the fun.

Actually, Bodog.ca is live right now! Enjoy it! Let me know what you think, positive or negative...I am keeping in close touch with the development guys this weekend to pass on all feedback that I hear.

Thanks! Becky

Awesome! Another member had posted that it was available now, but the word I heard was Sept. 1. Good to know there's been a head start on things.

I'm really interested to hear the feedback as well. Canadian members, post here your experience please.

Looking forward to some more competition. Bodog seams to have been going down hill recently. Glad they are alowing canada to join the crowd. Maybe things will start getiing better at the site. WELCOME ALL CANADA

A Bit dissapointed actually, considering how long Bodog has been operating I find game choice very limited. No RAZZ or HORSE ring or tourney, although the Omaha H/L tables look very soft.

Thanks for stopping by Becky

Just a reminder to all players: Bodog is officially opening up to Canadian players tomorrow. The website is up now.

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Too bad Bodog is probably the worst site of all the big ones out there. Cool for our canadian friends though.

Thats cool this should but fun or not for all canadians since im from canada and never played on bodog and thanks for the info.

DennisC98

Hey guys,
Another announcement: We have a new poker licensee as of Sept 1...two experienced people from the poker industry are running www.bodogpoker.com (an aggregate all the poker traffic of all the Bodog branded sites, bodogpoker.com is the direct entrance) and www.bodognetwork.com. They have a background from PokerRoom/Ongame Network and Gnuf, a Microgaming skin. Their first mission is to improve the Bodog poker client, with the first upgrade due in October. There will be a number of fixes, including proper late registration in tournaments, an improved betting slider, and so on. After that, the plan is to have monthly upgrades. We also have a plan of how to bring more players to Bodog, but we cannot give you any details on that yet.

Official PR and details to be released mid month, so stay tuned!

Becky

Becky, when are deposit options going to be equal for ALL players?

This is excellent news.

I just wanted to clarify, as I'm unfamiliar with Bodog. Can you use the same account (and bankroll) for Poker, Casino, and Sportsbook?

Cool I will check it out!!

Yes Please.

I downloaded(Canadian) today Becky and was Disappointed with Clunky appearance. Took me forever to find Tourney stats.The beep that indicates it's your turn is Irritating.

I look forward to upgrades

Yes, that's one of the main advantages of Bodog. Their sportsbook is hugely popular and has a great reputation.

No "cluncky" appearance, just dissed at the deposit options. Don't like the sound? turn it off, I never play with sound on, on any site.

Will player-to-player transfers ever become a reality?

^^^^ this. I might be tempted to play on bodog every so often is this happens.

Glad to see Bodog now available for Canucks. However, a word of warning if you are the MAC computer. Unless you run under an emulator, and use the web based flash version, it is not available as yet. Also, if using the web version, you will only be able to play single table NLHE cash games - no tourneys or other type of games. However I do like Bodog because of their sportsbook.

Incorrect, I played the CC freeroll tournament the other day. Unless you mean the flash version?

Yep - when using the flash version, you are restricted as above.

Yay!!!!, another poker site (for this Canadian gal ). I am looking forward to checking out the site and maybe playing a few games after this weekend!.

Finally!

Long-term, yes!

I spoke directly with the Bodog poker network licensee and he said Q2 2010 is a reasonable time frame to expect this function to be added.

Thanks guys,
Becky

Are they adding more tournaments? This was a big reason why I stopped playing there. Not enough decent tournaments through the day. IMO, there should be low buy ins all day long with the high buy ins once a day.

Software seems decent to me so far. But I am still unable to deposit, the only methods available are usemybank.com and Visa. My mastercard didn't work even though it is an option on the drop down menu

I can't wait for Moneybookers and/or Click2Pay to be available!

as soon as we have more players, we will run bigger tournaments

I wrote to support about depositing with either MasterCardGiftCard or VisaGiftCard and was told that the VisaGiftCard would work.
Do the GiftCards work Becky?

May be a while till u hear back PO; Becky is at a series of conferences in Europe, check her progress on twitter.

I would just call support to confirm, they r very good.

Thanks Makwa, you were 100% right on all accounts...I was in Europe for a series of conferences and now I'm back. Also, for payment method questions of this nature, each Bodog licensee's CS team really is fantastic and will be happy to help.

Thanks!
Becky

I'd also be interested in hearing about any successful Canadian deposit alternatives. My CC provider won't have anything to do with online gambling, and Bodog's alternative (UseMyBank) seems like a huge hassle.