Just to follow up on the guy who said Bovada cheated him out of $14k.

[JoeCool20]

Bovada has been cheating people from day one on their casino baccarat game.

Bovada owes players millions of dollars from cheating the Baccarat game. If you bet $1 on the banker, it takes out 25c instead of the 5% (5c). They also take out 2 quarters (50c) instead of 30c on a $6 banker win. Same for EVERY bet with an odd dollar on the end like $11, or $16, or $21.
They take a quarter and only pay 75c So they cheat (profit) 20c every time somebody wins a $1 banker bet (& they take 25c & cheat 15c & 10c on every odd $2 & $3 banker bet.)

I emailed to them & told them:
"ONE $1 bet may not seem to matter, but when there have been a MILLION $1 banker bets, (or ANY bet with an odd dollar on the end like $6 or $11) then that means your casino has STOLEN TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS from your clients that isn't rightfully yours!!!"
(20c X 1 million = $200 grand that they failed to pay (stole from) clients!)

They replied (I SWEAR!) "Dear sir, We round up to a quarter on those bets. Our site and games are for recreational play. We hope you enjoy them."
LOL I replied "Why the hell did you pick a quarter to round up to? Why don't you round up to a dime & only cheat your clients out of 5c instead of 20c? on every odd dollar bet?"
LOL They never replied again!

LOL That was over 10 YEARS ago & they are STILL Taking a quarter instead of a nickel on every odd $1 baccarat bet!!
How the fuk have they been able to get away with LITERALLY STEALING from people for so long??!!
How many millions have they stolen from people on that? No damn telling!

[baseballstud]

You should file a sportsbook complaint with SBR to see if they can assist you in recovering the extra $0.20 they took from you.

On a serious note that is pretty awful of bovada. I hope they have a disclaimer they do that.

[JoeCool20]

You should file a sportsbook complaint with SBR to see if they can assist you in recovering the extra $0.20 they took from you.
On a serious note that is pretty awful of bovada. I hope they have a disclaimer they do that.

LOL Right. Like I say, it seems like nothing until you realize how much that adds up to after a couple million times that they literally cheat & steal 20c!!

[Kaabee]

If a regulated book was doing that they'd probably be in serious penetrating trouble.

[Kaabee]

Don't know the software but 500 hands per hour is generally pretty easy. Banker wins 46% of the time. So that's 230 wins which adds up to $46 per hour. Quite a racket they've got going there.

People will say that you should notice and not play. And you should also notice if a casino offers single deck blackjack and removes some face cards that never show up. Both are blatant cheating.

[JoeCool20]

If a regulated book was doing that they'd probably be in serious penetrating trouble.

Right, and it is an A+ book on here!!

I also went & looked & played a few fun hands before I wrote this. And yes they are STILL taking (stealing) 25c instead of 5c on every odd dollar bets like $1, $6, $21, $26 ETC.

It is absolutely incredible to me that they have been doing this for 20 years!

[JoeCool20]

LOL It doesn't even make any sense! Why the hell would they EVER take more than 5% on a banker win like they are supposed to?

Like I say they quit replying to me after their first ridiculous reply to my first email years ago.

I asked them: "If I bet banker for $100 & I win, you don't cheat & only pay me $75, you pay me $95.

But if I bet & won banker for ONE DOLLAR one hundred times, then you'd have only paid me $75 instead of

$95! How do you explain blatantly cheating and stealing a WHOPPING 20% from clients like that?"

LOL I never got another reply.

[Kaabee]

You can see it here at the 3:15 mark. 25c commission paid on $1. The video is from 2012.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLj6079BfzQ