Detailed Analysis: Bovada's Tournament Guarantee Increases Begin Today

Bovada Poker recently announced guarantee increases across several multi-table tournaments - these changes begin today and ProfRB.com has you covered with full details and our unique, in-depth analysis.

Bovada & Bodog Tournament Guarantees Increase

As shown in our Bovada overlay report, Bovada is ripe with options for players looking for any range of tournaments with some sizeable fields. Their strength has been consistency - rarely do you see an overlay, and their schedule hums along strong and steady each week. The last increase of a significant portion of tournament guarantees occurred back in August of last year - since then, Bovada has emerged as the clear favorite among US-facing poker rooms in terms of their MTT offerings.

Now, some five months after their last adjustment, Bovada has amped up their tournaments to the tune of over $100,000 in overall added weekly guarantees. We denote and discuss the lion's share of the changes below (all times are EST).
 

Highlights of changes to the Monday through Friday schedule include some additions to our MTT tracking. Two more tournaments will see guarantees hit $5,000 (prerequisite for our tracking, as explained here) - but the big jump is obviously the daily 9pm MTT for $55+$5, which sees its guarantee jump from $20,000 to $25,000. The last overlay we've tracked in Monday to Friday action at Bovada, for your information, was back on December 13th - and that was largely due to the running of the Power Play tournaments, which ran in conjunction with the normal schedule. A highly successful and profitable winter shows you why Bovada is expanding before the spring takes hold.
 

Several Saturday staples see added prize money - you can see $11,500 has been added in the $5k or higher MTT's posted above. Already strong on the first day of the weekend, Bovada has reinforced their Saturday tournaments and look poised to continue growing their player base as a result. The last Saturday overlay was tracked on December 14th, and as with the Monday to Friday schedule, this was likely do to added Power Play tournaments that ran at the same time.
 

As you would expect, the big changes are quite visible on Bovada's Sunday schedule with the increases to the 17:25 $215 and the 21:00 $60. While these changed won't take effect for another couple of weeks, the schedule as it stands is formidable. Bovada has cleared north of $257,000 in profits since December 1st alone on their Sunday offerings of $5k or better. And overlays totaling a whopping $660 since December 1st means there are big fields that are only poised to increase over the coming weeks.

One note of potential interest - Bovada's Sunday $100,000 guaranteed tournament, which has averaged 1,096 players over the past six weeks for an average pool of over $164,000 during that time, remains unchanged in guaranteed amount for now. Over the past six months, this particular tournament has grown steadily, and expect any changes to this tournament to be just as steady. 

Other changes made to the weekely schedule (all live today or this weekend) are:

Mon-Fri at 14:00 - $2,000 GTD $33 increased to $3,000
Mon-Fri at 16:00 - $2,000 GTD $22 increased to $3,000
Mon-Sat at 11:00 - $2,000 GTD $13 increased to $3,000
Sat/Sun at 13:00 - $1,500 GTD $7.70 Turbo increased to $2,000
Saturday at 14:30 - $3,000 GTD $22 increased to $4,000
Saturday at 15:15 - $3,000 GTD $55 increased to $4,000
Saturday at 16:15 - $2,000 GTD $5.50 increased to a $3,000
Sunday at 11:00 - $2,000 GTD $13 increased to $4,000
 

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The above tournament guarantee information is derived from a post by the Bodog Network Liason on the TwoPlusTwo poker forum.