West Ham keeper Robert Green's sloppy error helped Bolton beat the Hammers and climb out of the bottom three.
Bolton had taken the lead when Chung-Yong Lee played a one-two with Ivan Klasnic and dinked in a shot, before Alessandro Diamanti fired in to level.
But Green spilled a Gary Cahill shot in front of Klasnic, who pounced to score from point-blank range.
Cahill nodded in at the far post to add to Bolton's lead and increase West Ham's relegation fears.
Green - who hopes to be in England's World Cup squad next year - had stressed the importance of the game with both clubs in the bottom three ahead of the fixture.
And the tension of the situation appeared to have more of an impact on the visitors.
The Hammers, who have the uncertainty of financial problems and a possible takeover hanging over them, can usually be expected to produce neat and tidy football under manager Gianfranco Zola but even this deserted them for the most part at the Reebok Stadium.
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