One of the most notable brands in online offshore gaming will cease to exist after nearly 30 years of business.
Key Takeaways
- Bodog has been a staple in the offshore online gambling business since the early 2000s.
- Ignition Poker will reportedly assume Bodog Poker's Latin American players and their accounts.
- Bodog Canada announced maintenance will begin early Tuesday.
Bodog, which still operates as an online casino and poker room in Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Europe under that brand, announced Monday that the owner decided to discontinue the use of the name with gaming operators.
“While we are thankful for such a positive partnership for so many years, this presents us with an opportunity for us to relaunch under a different brand name,” Bodog told its users.
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New era
Bodog Poker operates under that brand name in Canada, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, El Salvador, and Venezuela. Accounts and funds for Bodog Poker's Latin American arm will be transitioned to Ignition Poker this week, Tribuna reports.
The same depositing and withdrawal methods and bonuses will carry over. Customers will need to download the Ignition Poker software to access their old Bodog accounts, and exclusive rebranding offers will be available.
Bodog told its Canadian customers it will begin maintenance over Tuesday's early hours.
“We are getting ready to bring you a fresh new brand and start a new era,” Bodog said.
Sordid past
Billionaire Calvin Ayre founded Bodog in the late 1990s and launched an online sportsbook in 2000 that quickly gained massive popularity during the early days of the internet gaming craze. Bodog added casino gaming and poker, making it one of the most-used offshore gambling sites for years.
However, in 2012, the U.S. government cracked down on offshore betting operators, seizing Bodog’s domain name and indicting Ayre on federal charges. That forced the brand out of the country, but the network changed its U.S. name to Bovada, which still offers online sports betting and casino games in many states.
Bodog has continued to operate poker in most Canadian provinces, which have an unregulated “grey market” outside of gaming-regulated Ontario and soon-to-be-regulated Alberta. Manitoba hit Bodog with an injunction in July 2025, restricting access in the province, and offshore gaming could soon be undergoing bigger changes in Canada.
