However, in July of 2017, the company began accepting players from Australia as well as America. Initially, Ignition poker only provided games to American players. Bovada's poker assets were sold to Pai Wang Luo, a Hong Kong-based investment company. The poker site was created by the purchase of the existing player base of Bovada Poker, an American-only poker product within the Bodog Group. Ignition Poker is the poker arm of an online gambling company created in September 2016, dubbed Ignition Casino.
