Ignition took over Bovada's poker room in September 2016 and has been the biggest US-facing offshore poker site, or a close second to WPN, ever since. It sits on the PaiWangLuo network — the old Bodog network — sharing one player pool with Bovada in the US and Bodog in Canada and Latin America. It accepts players in every US state except Delaware, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey and New York.
The room is built around one idea: protect recreational players. Every table is anonymous, you see seat numbers rather than screen names, HUDs don't work, and hand histories only become available a day after you play. You're capped at four cash tables. The result is the softest high-volume pool available to Americans: Hold'em, PLO and PLO8 from $0.02/$0.05 up to $10/$20, Zone Poker fast-fold, three-handed Jackpot Sit & Gos up to 1,500x, and a tournament schedule with around $2 million a week in guarantees, a $200,000 Sunday major, the $1 million Monthly Milly and the Golden Spade series.
The catch, historically, is that Ignition pays no rakeback. Ignition Miles are worth around one percent of rake at best, and the room has never run an affiliate rakeback program — which is exactly why a deal through me changes the maths here more than almost anywhere else. Cashier is crypto first (fast and free), with cards and cheques available but slow and expensive.