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Originally Posted by Tapirboy
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 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.
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Originally Posted by Tapirboy
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.
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.
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Originally Posted by BigBadBabar
if anyone needs help getting funds on here, feel free to post in here or pm me or one of the regs in this thread. i personally can probably swap my btc/seals chips for your acr/bcp/true/stars and i'm sure other people in this thread can do the same or could take bank transfer or other stuff too.
bitcoin is more widespread than it was a few years ago but i think there are still plenty of people who play poker on other sites but still don't mess with bitcoin. an easy way to get them over to seals is to swap funds from another site imo. then we increase seals traffic and get the new people hooked on the awesomeness!
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.
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Originally Posted by underthesky
I've been looking at SWCpoker and it seems pretty neat. Is it best to simply sign up directly, or with an affiliate?
Cheers.
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Originally Posted by BigBadBabar
your experience as a player will be essentially the same either way. however, i (disclaimer: i affiliate for several sites including swcpoker) 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.
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.