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Bovada (Bodog USA) Casino Review

The Bovada casino offers two types of bonuses for their new players.  You will be able to choose from a $200 table games bonus or a $500 slots bonus at the Bovada Casino.  These are fair bonuses, that should attract a variety of players to their casino.  You will also have the option to get a poker bonus or a bonus for the sportsbook.
    This is one of the better casinos, if not the best casino, that Americans can play at as well as players on a players with a Mac computer.  Making a deposit shouldn't be too hard either, because the Bovada Casino ownership group always seems to be accepting new payment processors on a regular basis.  After making your initial deposit you will be able to play at a variety of casino games including 74 slots, 16 different video poker machines and 26 table games.  You should feel confident playing here because of the security features in the software and the integrity of the ownership group.

Welcome Bonus
You will have your bonus credited to you after you have made a deposit and redeemed a coupon code.  You will not start earning your bonus until you have redeemed a coupon code at the Bovada Casino.  You will have the option to choose one of two casino bonuses.  There is a $200 table games bonus and a $500 slots bonus.
    To get the slots bonus at the Bovada Casino, you will need to use the SLOTS500 coupon code.  This will give you a 100% welcome bonus up to $500.  You will be required to play through your deposit plus your bonus twenty-five times, which works out to be 50 times your bonus amount (25 x ($500 + $500)/$500 = 50), before you make a withdrawal.  For this bonus you will only be able to play the slot machines at the Bovada Casino.  This bonus will reduce the house edge on the slot machines by 2%, which is more than half the house edge that the Bovada Casino has for their slots.
    The table games bonus will match your deposit up to $200.  This bonus can be claimed if you use the Casino200 coupon code.  Only five casino games can not be played with this bonus.  Baccarat, Sic Bo, Craps, Roulette, single deck and double deck Blackjack are the only casino games that will not count toward your gaming requirements.  In order to clear your bonus requirements you will need to play 40 times your deposit plus your bonus, which works out to be 80 times your bonus (40 x ($200 + $200)/$200 = 80).  This will reduce the house edge for all of the remaining casino games here by 1.25%.

How the welcome bonus works for different games
Slots: $500 deposit = 25 x ($500 bonus + $500 deposit) = $25000 Play Through x (96.5%) = $24125 + $500 bonus = $24625/$250000 = 98.5% pay out with bonus

Video Poker: 40 x ($200 bonus + $200 deposit) = $16000 Play Through x (97.8%) = $15648 + $200 bonus = $15848/$16000 = 99.1% pay out with bonus

Bovada Casino Games

There definitely is no shortage of casino games here at the Bovada online casino.  There is over 74 slot machines, 16 video poker machines and 26 table games.  You can use your $200 table games match bonus to play most of these fun casino games.

Slots
There is a wide variety of incredibly fun slot machines here.  There are video slots, three reel slots, five reel slots and slots with progressive jackpots over one million dollars.  You can win over $1,000,000 at the Mid Life Crisis slots, Aztec's Millions and the Shopping Spree slot machine.  There are nine other progressive slots with jackpots between $20,000 and $250,000.  Along with the progressives there is also 50 of the 52, five reel slot machines that will reward a player a random jackpot.  These jackpots are given away at the conclusion of a spin at a random interval.  The jackpots are usually between $3000 and $50,000 and doesn't require you to line up any matching symbols.
    There are also some simple three reel slot machines that are easy to play.  The most popular 3-reel slots are the Bank on it slots, Crazy Dragon and the Light Speed slots.
    You can play any of these slot machines with either bonus, but if you will be playing mostly just slots at the Bovada Casino, then we would recommend that you take the $500 slots bonus over the $200 table games bonus.  If you take the slots bonus, you will be required to play 50 times your bonus before making your withdrawal.  Playing the slots with a bonus will decrease the house edge by 2%, unless you are playing slots with the table game bonus, which will result in a 1.25% reduction in the house edge.  That will change the pay out ratio from 96.5% to 98.5% with the slots bonus and 97.8% with the table games bonus.  At that rate you can expect to lose approximately 1.5 cents for every $1 wagered.  If you were planning of wagering $66.66 per spin, you could expect to lose about $1 for every spin you play.

Video Poker
Speaking at a financial point of view, the Bovada Casino is one of the best places to play video poker online.  They also have a great selection of video poker games as well including Aces and Faces, Jacks or Better, Joker Poker as well as many new and unique video poker games.  There are 16 different video poker games in total, game play at any of these video poker machines will count towards your roll over requirements.  Taking the bonus into account the pay out ratio will be 99.1% instead of the regular 97.8%.  This will work out to an average loss of 0.9 cents for every $1 that you will eventually wager.  A wager of $111.11 will result in a theoretical long term loss of a $1 per hand.  You can play 1, 3, 10 or 52 hands simultaneously here.

Table Games
There is a total of twenty-six table games at the Bovada online casino.  Popular games such as Blackjack, Roulette, Craps and Caribbean Draw can be played here as well as some unique casino games such as Vegas 3 Card Rummy, Perfect Pairs, Caribbean Holdem and Super 21.  There pay out ratios will depend on the type of table game you are playing, but playing with a bonus will decrease the house edge by 1.25%.  Note: Play at Baccarat, Sic Bo, Craps, Roulette, single deck and double deck Blackjack, will not count towards your roll over requirements.

Deposit Options

Visa/MasterCard , Rapid Transfer , MyPaylinQ

Editor's Note

This is a great casino that has a strong reputation in the U.S. market.  Bovada, formerly Bodog USA, has an established online sportsbook and online poker room as well.  I have never ran into any problems with the software, security and requesting a withdrawal.  The casino games, the casino personnel and the ownership group are all top notch.  If you are looking to play at a online casino that is operated by a group of individuals with some integrity, then this would be the casino of choice for you.
    If you are an American who likes to place bets on sports and a Mac user, you will probably not find a better casino than the Bovada online casino to play at.  Right now only Americans can play here, if you are from outside the U.S, you will need to play at the Bodog website instead, which has the same gaming products.  This is done to separate the U.S business from the rest of the world, making it easier to serve all players better.

Betting Limits

Slots: $0.01 - $100
Video Poker: $0.05 - $260
Three card poker: $1 - $500
Roulette $1 - $500
Blackjack: $1 - $500
Craps: $1 - $1000
Caribbean Stud: $1 - $500
Red Dog: $1 - $250
Let them ride: $1 - $500
Baccarat: $1 - $250
Sic Bo: $1 -$250
Pai Gow Poker: $1 - $500
Casino War: $1 - $250