After you’ve verified your phone, you will be prompted to Choose a Bonus or Enter Bonus Code. You can click the link Skip for now at the top right corner if you are not ready to select your bonus yet.

After playing your free chip and you are ready to make a deposit into the Bovada Casino, you can select between the credit card deposit bonus or the Bitcoin deposit bonus. If you are familiar with Bitcoin, we highly recommend depositing with Bitcoin because you get larger bonuses, faster withdrawals, and the fees are less!

You can receive up to $3,750 across your first 3 deposits with the Bitcoin deposit bonus. The Bovada welcome bonus lasts six whole months before expiring! This is yet another way in which Bovada is better than other sites – no stressful time pressure here.

Wagering Requirements

The $3,000 Casino Welcome Bonus is made up of three instances of the CAWELCOME100 bonus code. Whenever you use this bonus, or in fact any bonus at Bovada.lv, the bonus itself and winnings from the bonus CAN BE WITHDRAWN once the wagering requirements are cleared. The fact that the bonus itself can be withdrawn is important – many other casinos do not allow this.

CAWELCOME100 Welcome Bonus: 25x Wagering Requirement
This $1,000 100% match bonus can be used 3 times for a total of $3,000. The wagering requirement is 25x, and this multiplier applies both to your deposit amount and the value of the bonus funds.

BTCCWB1250 Bitcoin Welcome Bonus: 25x Wagering Requirement
This special Bitcoin-only bonus awards you with 125% of your deposit up to $1,250. You can use it as many as three times for $3,750 free. There’s a wagering requirement of 25x on your deposit and bonus.

Game-Specific Wagering Contributions

Whether you elect to take advantage of the CAWELCOME100 offer, the BTCCWB1250 bonus or both of them, the games you choose to play will contribute varying amounts to your 25x rollover requirement:

• Slots and Specialty Games (Scratch Cards, Keno, etc.): 100%
• Tri Card Poker, Pai Gow, Let ‘Em Ride, Caribbean Poker: 60%
• Baccarat, Video Poker: 60%
• Most types of Blackjack, including Multihand Blackjack: 60%
• Single Deck and Double Deck Blackjack, Mini Blackjack: 5%
• Roulette and Mini Roulette: 5%
• Craps: 0% – CANNOT BE USED WITH BONUSES

Mobile & Software

Using Chrome on my Samsung S5, I was able to play some blackjack hands without having to use an app.

Bovada Mobile Blackjack

Bovada uses Real Time Gaming (RTG) and BetSoft to power their casino games.

Based in Cyprus, BetSoft is the software company that powers Bovada 3d slots games. Formed in 1999, BetSoft has been licensing games to casinos like Bovada for years. BetSoft software meets strict Technical Systems Testing standards. The BetSoft 3d slots like Under the Bed, Mad Scientist and At The Copa look amazing.

Blackjack

Bovada blackjack has fairly standard rules although they reshuffle the cards after each hand. This makes it kind of like using a continuous shuffle machine in Vegas. Card counters won’t be able to do their thing under these conditions so playing the single and double deck variations is kind of pointless since surrender is only offered on 6 decks.

For rules that vary between casinos, Bovada Blackjack adheres to these rules (in order of importance):
Blakjack pays 3:2 (some other sites pay just 6:5).
Dealer hits soft 17 (pretty common but not good for players).
Players can double after splitting.
Players can split up to 3 hands.
Surrender is allowed.

Bovada Blackjack follows these typical and standard 6 deck rules:
Players can double on any first two cards.
Split aces receive only one card.
Re-splitting of aces not allowed.

Double deck rules:
Same as 6 deck but no surrender.

Single deck rules:
Same as 6 deck but no surrender.

Deck Penetration:
Reshuffle after every hand for all times (single deck, double deck and 6 deck).

Note that it is hard to find 3:2 single deck tables like this in Vegas but then again they don’t shuffle after every hand in Vegas.

Video Poker

Bovada offers the following Video Poker variations:
7 Stud Poker
Aces and Eights
All American Poker
Bonus Deuces Wild
Bonus Poker
Bonus Poker Deluxe
Deuces Wild
Double Bonus Poker
Double Double Bonus Poker
Double Double Jackpot Poker
Double Jackpot Poker
Jacks or Better
Joker Poker
Loose Deuces
Mystery Bonus Poker
Pick’em Poker
Sevens Wild

Of these variations, here are Bovada’s pay tables for the top video poker games:

• Aces and Eights: 99.78% (50/25/8 Structure) – Highest pay table possible*
• Double Jackpot Poker: 99.63% (160/80/80/40 Structure) – Highest pay table possible*
• All American Poker: 99.60% (35/8/8/8 Structure) – Highest pay table possible*
• Jacks or Better: 99.54% (9/6 Structure) – Highest pay table possible*
• Bonus Deuces Wild: 99.45% (800/400/20/9 Structure) – Highest pay table possible*

* Pay table matches or is better than other online casinos.

Real Money Slots & 3D Slots

Through RTG and BetSoft, Bovada offers a wide variety of real money slots – over 100 and counting. The Kahnawake Gaming Commission has noted that Bovada slots have a high payout percentage. In November of 2014 Bovada noted that Caesar’s Empire, Greedy Goblins, Aztec’s Treasure, Good Girl Bad Girl, and Sugar Pop were 5 of the favorites.

The BetSoft 3D slots look fantastic and they are very entertaining.

Mad Scientist is an example of the slot adventures awaiting players at Bovada. In this game Dr. Walter Prescott knows how to turn things into gold! Players can get rich along with the doc in this 5-Reel game with 30 lines.

There isn’t much strategy with slots but players should remember to always go for the max when playing a progressive machine.

Bovada Casino Tournaments

Bovada offers 7 kinds of scheduled blackjack tournaments each week including the $500 Guaranteed (Daily Blackjack) for $5 + $0.50 that is every night just before midnight.

10 different scheduled slots tournaments are offered each week. The list of games for these is massive – there’s a game for everyone.

Sit and go tournaments are not scheduled for a particular time. They start (go) as soon as enough people sit down for them. Bovada has 4 types of blackjack sit and go tournaments (regular, turbo, super turbo, and hyper turbo). Each of these types has 4 different blackjack games available (regular, single deck, double deck, and European).

3D slots (turbo and super turbo), jackpot slots (regular and super turbo), and real series slots (regular and turbo) are all offered as sit and go tournaments. There is a plethora of slots games like Aztec Treasures, Treasure Island, and Cleopatra’s Gold.

VIP Details

The Red Room is where VIP players receive next-level service. Recently the Red Room offered a March Madness basketball package in Las Vegas, poker in Punta Cana, and super bowl tickets in New Orleans.

Exclusive weekly deposit bonuses are given out to Red Room members and they can be used anywhere at Bovada! This is a huge plus as other bonuses have restrictions such that they can’t be cleared on games like single deck blackjack.

Bovada takes the hassle out of the depositing experience for Red Room members. High rollers are taken care of with respect to credit card fees that could otherwise be up to 4.9%. The withdrawal process is easier for Red Room members as well. Payouts for VIP members are processed especially quickly.

Casino Points

As you play the games you enjoy, you’ll get casino points that will be converted every other Friday into actual cash. The effective rebate on your action amounts to between 0.04% and 0.3% of the amounts you wager, depending on the games you play. You won’t get rich from it, but it’s still a nice perk that can add up over time.

Here are some of the differences between Non-VIP and VIP Points:
Slots: 3 Points per $10 Bet vs 6 Points per $10 Bet
Table Games: 2 Points per $10 Bet vs 4 Points per $10 Bet
Video Poker: 1 Point per $10 Bet vs 2 Points per $10 Bet
Blackjack: 1 Point per $10 Bet vs 2 Points per $10 Bet

As you can see above, being in the Red Room VIP program gets double points. Note that single and double deck blackjack require $25 bets to get double points.