The lag can be worse when tournaments are going, but it's an issue all the time. If you play any draw games it can be really obvious, as there are times when you discard cards and have to wait 4-5 seconds to get new ones. This happens even in the 4am doldrums.

I played at Grid for a year when it was under active development. It has never worked as well for SwC as it did in the last several months at Grid. They clearly bought the software, caused some problems in the rebranding, and have made no effort to improve anything since then.

Functionality consistently improved on a weekly basis at Grid, until Vault decided he didn't want the real-money gambling exposure and shut it down. The experience at SwC has never been like that.

Yeah sometimes I draw 3 and wait a good 2-3 seconds for the new ones (compared to Stars which is like .5-.75 secs) and it's like squeezing em out. But when I'm losing it tilts me as it prevents me from playing faster.

Idk much about MTT rake, but I'm pretty sure 240+10 for the 12 game is pretty damn good.

I'd like to see some of the Stars players come out.

I've been looking at SWCpoker and it seems pretty neat. Is it best to simply sign up directly, or with an affiliate?

Cheers.

your experience as a player will be essentially the same either way. however, i do recommend that people sign up with a good-reputation affiliate whenever possible. this is because of some potential benefits the affiliate can provide to the player: answering questions, troubleshooting/tech support, moving money around for the player, etc. depending on the site, the affiliate may have contacts at the site that can help get things done.

I will defer to you guys on that because I rarely play draw games other than occasional late night micro stakes fun.

As far as the other games I can say that even when there's a bigger tournament causing some lag the ring games aren't affected. So if you're mostly a ring game player the lag issue isn't as much to worry about.

I played in the first tournament on Grid, and was beta testing after original Seals bought the software and rebranded it. Vault was still there at that time helping with the changeover. The site was never meant to relaunch to the public as early as it did. The plan was a smooth transition from the old Mavens to the new software once it was fully ready... but as we know things went down that caused it to be rushed.

They have taken a long time, and I've seen them admit that it's been too slow. But I do believe an update is coming soon that will fix the lag and allow them to more add all of the planned features. It's fair if you disagree though... I guess we'll see what happens.

Yeah, now that other sites are doing bitcoin withdrawals it's much simpler for someone to try out SwC. You can withdraw some money from a site like Ignition and have it on here in hours.


Right... there's no direct benefit like extra rakeback for joining with an affiliate. But you won't miss out on anything either. So if you know someone that you like that is an affiliate you might as well use them.

They aren't allowed to give you rakeback from their affiliate earnings... but they might be willing to give you some bonuses or run private freerolls in the future when that becomes available. And as mentioned they will be more likely to take the time to help you with questions/issues that come up.

Checked in on the 12 Game tournament tomorrow and saw that they updated it again.

Looks like an increase to 5k starting stacks, some changes to the blinds, and 12 levels of late reg.





Also, overnight last night they did an update on their end that they said they've been testing for awhile that changed something with the way tournaments work and should improve the lag issue.

So far today it seems to have worked. I jumped in one of the big freerolls that was running at the same time as the Saturday 420 to test it out and didn't notice any lag between hands.

They said today in chat that they would monitor how it's going and add more tournaments to the schedule the next few days.

Hi SWC Community,

Does anyone (or is it possible to) play on the SWC client using a tablet with Windows as an operating system i.e. using a Microsoft Surface.

Thanks

they don't have mobile client. they've said theyre working on Android client for this summer release and a mobile client, not sure of timeframe on that.

Thanks MB

I do. PM if need any assistance.

My Surface Pro works fine. Actually works somewhat better than my desktop does.

haha do not listen to me re tech, its been proven again

Thanks for the notes Kurosaki & Tapirboy.

Client works well on my new Surface, had to play around with the aspect ratio a bit but otherwise runs nice.

Time to jump into some mix games!

Just posting because site has been getting more and more traffic lately and games have been running really good across all stakes. A site with low rake and rake back and all games offered would get more attention. 15 minute cash outs great to just saying

interested in playing on here..any help with getting started? Currently use blockchain and coinbase for wallets. Thanks

Use Coinbase to buy send to Blockchain then send to site. Very easy and when you withdraw send to Blockchain then send to Coinbase never send or receive from site to Coinbase or vice versa

Reports of Coinbase bans for this.

i wanted to start playing on seals with clubs but i opened the lobby and the only game going had 5/9 players and was .01/.02 which is equivalient to like 2cent/4cent right? are there any other bitcoin poker sites worth playing with more activity???

thanks.

no, seals has the most traffic for btc-based sites i believe

for only one game to be running you must have caught it at a slow time

try again more often and you should find more stuff running

of course, there are never a zillion games going - the traffic can't seem to reach critical mass. if you're willing to play hu/sh it's a definite plus

BBB, I think you are mistaken on this point inasmuch as Pokerscout shows both Nitrogen and Betcoin to have more traffic than SwC, and my experience at all three sites bears this out.

That said, SwC unquestionably has some cool things going for it that the other sites lack, such as game variants that are hard to find elsewhere, a site-wide chatroom (maybe a curse rather than a blessing though) and 12-hour (or less) cashouts.

Richcheckmaker, remember that the action at SwC is split up between all kinds of games, not just NLHE. I have seen a few times where there's only a table or two of Hold'em going, but a bunch of action running in mixed games, PLO, OFC, etc. And it isn't 90% microstakes either...it's pretty common to find 2/4 or 4/8 running in, say, 12-game. Although I have noticed that No Limit Hold thems tends to attract more people who want to play for pennies than most of the other games. There's an "Active" tab that lists all tables with at least 1 person sitting, so you can see them regardless of which game they are.

you may be right - thanks for letting me know - i am not very familiar with nitrogen and thought it was just sportsbetting. what kind of poker traffic do they get?

i didn't mention betcoin because they are part of WPN and if you count their standalone traffic (cash games) it's very small (i'd guess smaller than seals but it might be pretty similar). you can get into the WPN tourney pool on there via BTC though which is big and useful.

agree that the 'active' tab on seals is where it's at, and that the chat box is not usually where it's at

Not terribly much traffic either at the two other sites, but still larger than at SwcPoker. For NLHE, I think the disparity is greater though because most of the games at Nitrogen/Betcoin are in this format.

Yeah, Nitrogen is mostly a sportsbook. They added poker about a year or two ago I think. Still pretty modest in size, but there are some freerolls and other promos for regular players. Not sure how valuable these perks are; haven't crunched the numbers yet.

Re: Betcoin, the access to WPN tourneys is pretty cool indeed and a big selling point. On the other hand, I've heard from two or three different places that management is inept and slightly shady. For sure, I would trust Seals and Nitrogen over Betcoin any day.

I like this site. I wish more people played.

Plus my account keeps going up due to bitcoin price. I've been on a downswing but stilll making money.

Risk?

- you have to embrace heads up poker in what ever is your favorite poker variant.

Reward?

- unreal rake back for even a brand new account.

Also?

- Everyone got paid in minutes when the first incarnation went down. Rake structure has a 50% rakeback built into it on top of the 50% sh rb giving wow now I'm lost in the math but it's a cheap place to play avail worldwide.

swcpoker has LOWERED rake. They did this to offset the rise in BTC price, making them the lowest raked online site again.

I know myself and a few others were waiting to put in more volume until this occurred, as even split-pot games in the mix had $4.50 rake caps at stakes as low as $10/$20 USD up to $25/$50 USD.