From the beginning of 2012, existing Bodog players from America will be moved to a new U.S. friendly poker room called Bovada.

Bovada is a new poker room owned by the people behind Bodog. It is unusual in that while it accepts players from the U.S.A., it does not accept players from any other country. So it is a uniquely American poker room.

The software – in fact, everything – is the same as the Bodog site. Even the deposit limits and methods are the same as they are on Bodog.

This move is to protect their U.S. players against any governmental actions in the future.

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This move is to allow the network catch up with the large influx of new American players that their poker rooms received in the wake of Black Friday. The number of player payment transactions almost doubled for this networks payment processors in the last few weeks and this has put pressure on the network.

We are told that this will only be temporary and that the temporary block on new American players will be lifted in four to six weeks.

*UPDATE* Some Merge rooms are now accepting U.S. players again. Nto all rooms do, but the main ones are. These include Carbon Poker which is the biggest room on the network.

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With Poker Stars, Full Tilt, Absolute and UltimateBet no longer accepting US players, the remaining rooms that are still American friendly are few, and not all have issued statements regarding their intent to remain US Friendly.

So far the Merge network has said that they will continue to accept Americans and that all player funds are 100% safe.

The poker room on the Merge network with the lowest deposit limits is still POKER HOST.

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Previously their minimum deposit allowed was $10, but on the new software that has been reduced to $5 for players depositing using the MoneyBookers option.

Not only that, but you can fund your MoneyBookers account using a variety of different methods, and the deposit limit on most of these methods is $5.  So, effectively, Poker Host will accept deposit through MoneyBookers from different payment methods for as little as $5.00.

This is great news for American players as Poker Host accepts players from the U.S.A. Before this change, the only online poker room that had a deposit limit of $5 was Everest Poker, and they do not accept American players at this time.

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