Ignition Poker

History
Ignition Poker is the poker arm of an online gambling company created in September 2016, dubbed Ignition Casino. The poker site was created by the purchase of the existing player base of Bovada poker, an American-only poker product within the Bodog Group. Bovada's poker assets were sold to Pai Wang Luo, a Hong Kong-based investment company.

Initially, Ignition poker only provided games to American players. However, in July of 2017, the company began accepting players from Australia as well as America. It is worth noting that both countries are considered gray markets.

Size and Traffic
Ignition is part of a network of sites, formerly known as the Bodog Poker Network but now known as the Pai Wang Luo network. The players on Ignition Poker also play against players on Bodog branded poker sites such as Bodog and Bovada. The Pai Wang Luo network services players in nearly two dozen countries with each operator serving a specific set of countries with no overlap between operators. As such, the network is international in scope and size. Ignition benefits from this as its players intermingle with players worldwide. It is impossible to know the size of Ignition itself, but the size of the PWL network is known and tracked.

Ignition quickly became the third-largest poker site in the world after purchasing the player assets of Bovada in 2016. It was during this time that Bovada stopped offering poker, directing players to Ignition instead. Bovada re-launched poker within a year and the player pools were combined. Both Ignition and Bovada are part of the Pai Wang Luo network. These combined player pools regularly exceed 2,500 cash game players during peak hours according to industry tracking site Game Intel.

An odd quirk about this poker site and network is that they do not share their traffic statistics voluntarily. They go to great lengths to hide their traffic statistics. In the cash game and sit-and-go lobbies, full games are hidden from other players. The network operates under a "recreational player model and hides player traffic and full tables from view to deter seasoned winning players, or sharks, from overpopulating their tables."

Software
Ignition is compatible with and operates on a multitude of operating systems. Windows, Mac, and mobile poker clients are available.

Ignition now offers an instant play version of its poker software, which allows players to join cash games, Zone Poker tables, or tournaments without downloading any software. Players can access Ignition Poker from any browser on any device; no download is required.

The site utilizes a recreational player model and caters to losing poker players. There are many adjustments made in order to accomplish this goal. One such adjustment is that the site eschews screen names in favor of labeling the player by seat number. As such, it is impossible to track players across games due to the anonymous nature of seating. Furthermore, the software has "quick seat technology" which seeks to emulate live poker seating rules by assigning seats to players rather than letting players choose their own seat at the table.

Games
Ignition Poker offers three main games of poker including Texas Hold'em, Omaha, and Omaha hi-lo. These games are offered to players in cash game, tournament, and sit-and-go formats. Most tournaments and sit-and-goes on the site are single-entry freeze-out tournaments. Other tournament formats include knock-out, rebuy + add-on, double-up, triple-up, turbo, and hyper turbo.

Cash Games
Cash games on the site are denominated in US dollars. Fixed limit games start at blinds of $0.05/0.10 and go up to $30/60. No-limit and pot-limit games begin with blinds of $0.02/$0.04 and go up to $10/20. Ignition offers heads up(2-Max), 6 player (6-Max), and 9 player full ring tables. Ignition also offers a "fast-fold" poker variant dubbed, "Zone Poker", a game in which players can fold out of turn and begin new hands immediately.

Tournaments
Tournaments and sit-and-goes follow industry-standard intervals. The lowest buy-in games begin at $0.55 and max out at $540 entries. The site frequently runs tournament series with multi-million dollar prize pools. Some of these series include Black Diamond Poker Open, Twelve Days of Turbos, and the Super Millions Poker Open.

Sit and Goes
Sit and Goes, or SNGs, are available on Ignition Poker with a wide variety of buy-ins and formats. Popular options include double-ups, triple-ups, turbo speed, hyper-turbo speed, and Jackpot SNG with variable prizes. SNG buy-ins are available as low as $0.55 + $0.05 and as high as $200 + $14. Multiple table sizes are available including 9-player, 6-player and heads up(2-player). In late 2017, a 3-person variable prize pool sit and go dubbed, Jackpot Sit & Go, was added to the lineup. Jackpot Sit & Go buy-ins range from $0.50 up to $100 and the prize pool awarded can be as large as 1200x the entry fee. Jackpot Sit & Go tournaments utilize a hyper-turbo blind structure with 300 chip starting stacks.

Monthly Milly
Beginning in 2021, Ignition Poker and all other sites on the Pai Wang Luo Poker Network began offering "The Monthly Milly" tournament. This tournament sports a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000 USD with both of the final players taking home over $100,000 USD in prize money!

Buy-in for the Monthly Milly tournament is $500 + $35 tournament fee for a total of $535 USD.

This tournament runs once per month.

Australian Market
Ignition Casino has been a holdover in the Australian online poker market since 2016. In subsequent years, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has begun to block some online gambling operators from their access to Australian customers via the Telecom Act s313.

By invoking the Telecom Act s313, the ACMA has coerced many Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to enable Domain Name Service (DNS) blocks which do not allow customers of those ISPs to visit certain gambling websites.

The ACMA has included IgnitionCasino.lv in this list of banned websites. However, this is controversial and many players simply choose alternative DNS servers to bypass the ISP blocks. Ignition has also redirected its players through other URLs to bypass this ISP restriction and allow its customers to continue to use its services in Australia.

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