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Hey folks. First, thanks for taking the time to give me your opinions.

Back in 2003-2006, good ol' college days, I managed to make decent roll in online poker (~30k total). I dodged the closing of many sites and from my understanding one of the two sites I used cannot be accessed by US players (pokerstars) and Hollywood Poker(?) seems as if it closed.

After reading online I've narrowed my decision down to either ACR or Bovada. They seem like good places to get my feet under me again and appear to be decently safe and secure. People seem to recommend these two sites the most frequently.

Which would you choose based on my main positives for both sites:
ACR:
Best player programs (not sure if I'd get the perks though)
Once per month free withdrawal

Bovada:
No tracking software... which I like personally
I've heard nothing bad about it from anyone, heh

Thank you for your time again =)

Edit: Should add that I mainly play SnG & Tournaments. I use to play the SnGs between $5-20 & tournaments $5-10 unless it had a high payoff vs. odds, then I would go higher.
 
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If you want to access to fisher players and a large player pool than I would recommend Bovada. Bovada also has way more sng traffic along with having a better and large MTT schedule. Both are good sites though and I would actually recommend playing on both sites if you want to go ahead and do that. The main positive about both sites is that they pay out very fast and you don't have to worry about getting your money.
 
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Well with ACR you can mass table bovada only allows 4 anonymous tables...
We have a very good VIP program and rakeraces for both Sit & gos and cash games, we also have the quickest way to cashout(bitcoin).. And have the Jackpot poker, the only US facing site with lottery sitngos
 
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To be honest I have no problem with either of the sites...good cash tables and mtt and sngs...If I were you I'd dep. on both sites! Good luck!
 
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so ACR would have more of the LAG players?
 
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Bovada offers payout via visa Fast Fund, which is better than payout by check.
 
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dont know why you wouldnt play them both
 
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:coffee: DL'd this site about 3 months ago...

BOVADA SUCKS!!!

I shelled out $50USD to this damned site...JUST TO BE TAKEN AND SUCKED OUT ON EVERY HAND I TRIED TO PLAY by what looks to be like auto-call bots. (and IF you know me via other poker clients I (usually) DON'T play out of position and open/x3-4 bet with PRIME hands)

(HASHtag) "Random"_Number_Generator?:joyman:

There are ZERO freerolls, the IDIOTS that run this site has YET to send me an email of any kind of game/table promotion what so ever!!! (except for a "give us your moneies" usual bull**** spam)



DOES THIS SITE EVEN HAVE A (Brovada) FORUM :coffee: REPRESENTATIVE???!!!??!!!??!!!!



I personally am sticking with ACR from now on...their CSR (customer service representation) is definitely top of the line.
 
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SpartanGGGW said:
Hey folks. First, thanks for taking the time to give me your opinions.

Back in 2003-2006, good ol' college days, I managed to make decent roll in online poker (~30k total). I dodged the closing of many sites and from my understanding one of the two sites I used cannot be accessed by US players (PokerStars) and Hollywood Poker(?) seems as if it closed.

After reading online I've narrowed my decision down to either ACR or Bovada. They seem like good places to get my feet under me again and appear to be decently safe and secure. People seem to recommend these two sites the most frequently.

Which would you choose based on my main positives for both sites:
ACR:
Best player programs (not sure if I'd get the perks though)
Once per month free withdrawal

Bovada:
No tracking software... which I like personally
I've heard nothing bad about it from anyone, heh

Thank you for your time again =)

Edit: Should add that I mainly play SnG & Tournaments. I use to play the SnGs between $5-20 & tournaments $5-10 unless it had a high payoff vs. odds, then I would go higher.
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Bovada has very quick payouts. I like them more, and they have more games going, but the table limit for cash sucks. Note that there's no limit on tournament tables though. :)

Also, there is tracking for Bovada. You just can't track past a single session. My company actually sells tracking plug-ins for Holdem manager and Poker Tracker so you can use HUD's on there.

http://www.acepokersolutions.com/Bodog-Poker-Catcher/

GL with whatever games you do get into. We also have a free study group on here if you're interested in joining.
 
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With ACR you could get your cashout under 24 hours, and we host a $1.000.000 on August 2nd.
 
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The main difference is the traffic. I've played on both sites, and I play PLO8, and there's little to no traffic in PLO8 tables in ACR/BCP, whereas in Bovada, there's always traffic, and if there's none, you just sit alone at a table and usually within minutes the table's full. If you play hold 'em though, either one is fine I would say. Also there's a lot of PLO8 tournaments every day in Bovada, which I like.
 
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Bovada is way softer, WPN is way tougher, but you get rakeback, if you play tons of tables maybe WPN.
 
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jsh169 said:
Bovada is way softer, WPN is way tougher, but you get rakeback, if you play tons of tables maybe WPN.
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I think neither is tough, maybe that's because I play mostly PLO8 though, but the small buy in hold 'em tourneys are super soft.
 
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Yes, I am talking mainly nl, I don't know about tournaments or other games, but I assume most people play nlh primarily. You have 200nl players playing 25nl grinding for the Beast.
 
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