Can somebody help me out here please? When I log into account on old client the balance says zero. Now I saw there is new client however I cant log in there using 100% the right log in name and password (now 2way auth however so maybe that might be it?)
in old client on withdraw transactions only shows my transaction so I think its unlikely I have been hacked (again I have twoway Auth on so unlikely somebody chipdumbed.) Is there some issue with new client or what should I do?

your balance has been moved to the new client

do a password reset on the old client and put in your email and a new password

then use the new password for the new client

2.5% max for low stakes, 2% max for higher stakes. Less for heads up tables. I get 20% rakeback daily so I pay max 2% out of every pot I win. Seems pretty good to me.

https://swcpoker.eu/house-rules#charge-rake

Bad Beat Jackpot now at 0.149 bitcoin.

Many new faces. I like it.

Thank you
Worked!

Anyone going for the streaming bounties?

Bounty 2 - Stream Win: Little BTC Award: 10,000 Chips Requirements: First to win the Little BTC on Twitch*

Bounty 3 - Stream Win: Medium BTC Award: 20,000 Chips Requirements: First to win the Medium BTC on Twitch*

Bounty 4 - Bankroll Challenge: 1 to 10k Award: Medium BTC Ticket Requirements: Stream your run from 1k to 10k**

Bounty 5 - Bankroll Challenge: 0 to 10k Award: 10,000 Chips Requirements: Stream your run from freeroll to 10k**

Bounty 6 - Bankroll Challenge: 0 to 100k Award: 50,000 Chips Requirements: Stream your run from freeroll to 100k**

https://swcpoker.eu/post/twitch-bounties-announced

Not me, but a few regulars are doing it. Hang out in chat before and during the weekend tourneys and you'll see some stream links.

After seeing the BBJ scam 5Dimes pulled, it's good to see swcpoker pay theirs out last week. As a mostly mix player, I never had much of a chance. But it might be something driving more traffic in nlhe cuz they don't take out extra rake on the BBJ tables to seed it (and I don't mind when those players play mix just as they prob don't mind when I play nl). The influx of Aussie players that got booted from the regulated markets around the same time as the new software was just fortuitous timing.

The main bug that was slightly irritating on this software was that in the draw games, you couldn't pick which cards you were wanted to discard until betting action was complete. It slows the game down. It's prob the first time I've written a site about a software bug. It didn't happen when I played on my phone, but was happening on the main client, whether I used Mac or pc up until a couple weeks ago.

Trying to figure out who/what company runs the site currently is an exercise in futility. But if you compare their lack of engagement via Twitter/social media as recently as 6 mos ago to today, it's like night and day. It never made sense to me why they previously didn't market the rake, variants spread, or just have some sort dialogue w the poker world. Made it seem like there were barely any owners. So they either have new owners w deeper pockets or at least hired some more people cuz now they're trying to give away entries to a bigger mtt (more nlhe meh) to anyone w half a following on Twitter.

I've been pretty critical in the past when I felt like they dropped the ball with rake and how it effected traffic as BTC price ballooned, but traffic/rake isn't really the problem these days. If they're going to run these promos, they should've bought a sponsored thread here, instead of on some random BTC forum. The only reason to go that route would be to find weaker players and create a "healthy ecosystem." But it's not like they have a mechanism to keep the grinder types out like Merge. I just hope the nlhe players join some mix games (and they're prob hoping I play more nlhe).

Time will tell how BTC price effects things and if they stay on top of the promos and poker operations stuff, but I mostly care about mix games except when I want to degen at PLO. OFC 2-7 can also be fun to degen at. The sng flips is like drunken degen status.

Where did all the mix players go? There used to be pretty steady low-limit 12-game a few times a week. This was up until a few month ago. Where you guys at?

Also, Macau, the pre-select in draw games is finally fixed. Hallelujah!

Yeah my wording wasn’t very clear about the pre-select bug “up until a few weeks ago” cuz it was fixed a couple days after I wrote them.

I always enjoy playing the ring mix games (11g now, no single draw yet). There’s more traffic now, but it’s mostly big bet so far. I think this is partly due to the bbj that doesn’t take extra rake and can be triggered even if playing micro - so that’s incentive for a lot of the NL players to play.

There is a fair amount of new players that are prob from Australia and other countries who have gotten the boot from Stars/Party and they are much more likely to play big bet than if from US where there’s a lot of live mix games. Though a couple of them seem willing to try mix and most aren’t great but a couple are decent imo. And I’m not even sure how many 2.0 players know that there is new software and promos yet and that’s part of the reason I bumped this thread. I stumbled on the new site by accident weeks after it had been running. Hopefully more players will play mix so I don’t just blast off against a Hs huplo guy like I did a few nights ago.

I’d been trying to start mix game from like $2/$4-$$30/$60 and didn’t get much action other than sone hu. Part of that conundrum is that the easiest way to get a decent niche game going is to have a mid/hi mix mtt, but I usually don’t have time to play for 4-6 hrs straight. Maybe I should email them and ask for that cuz they’ve listened to a couple ideas I had on 2.0, but if I didn’t explain my absence from a tourney I request, they prob wouldn’t respond to my future suggestions lol.

Also, the people warning about not sending BTC directly from exchange should be heeded. I got my exchange account closed last year due to not using an intermediary wallet - and while I can get BTC via trades w friends or on 2p2 it takes a little more effort

Can I just ask is there decent PLO traffic for the equivalent of 2/4+USD? Thanks

There is always the option to email support. But to make suggestions and ask general questions you can just do it in this thread at Bitcointalk.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5068812.0

An official representative checks in there regularly. He is open to suggestions and quite friendly to deal with.

nope there is not

Traffic is slowly picking up. 106 players online at 9am on a Wednesday is better than before.

Big tourney coming up: January 27, Big BTC 10k chip entry, 1 Bitcoin GTD(covers 100 entries). Looks like 1st place gonna pay about 0.3 BTC.

Big BTC side pool is happening. See chatbox on swcpoker for details.

5 card runs sometimes, if you're willing to battle tough players, its shorthanded. Both hi and hi/lo

What stakes in usd?

SWC is a fun and pretty soft site, but their admins are mostly incompetent.

I received this e-mail today after criticizing their glacial development of the site:

Note: I never signed anything and I'm still just a regular player on their site, anyone can be affiliate. So I told them I'll always tell them they're incompetent if they're incompetent, that they should fix their **** instead of silencing players and that I'm fine if they revoke the affiliate (which they did) and in return, they delete posts in that forum AND banned me from chatting in their site chat.

For a site that praises itself for its "free speech" approach, they really love to censor any negative voice - so let me tell you here: The site is fine, but the owners are incompetent AF. They probably won't go anywhere because of that, although the potential is clearly there.

Is that SWC's forum?

It's not their forum, but they have a sponsored thread on the forum (I assume they pay for it?) and there is a notation somewhere that mentions that it is self-moderated by them. IIrc notation looks like a cut and paste for any company that has a sponsored forum/thread and not created specifically for SWC. The answer might be a simple "yes", but I'm not 100% on the terminology.

It's analogous to the sponsored forums/threads here (Microgaming, Global, etc), where there is an official site rep that makes announcements, responds to requests/feedback/complaints etc. I assume the main forum admins there (equivalent to blue, red, orange on 2p2) retain ultimate authority over the thread. That's best way I can describe it. Concise is my middle name.

Fair enough, the same thing happens here with sponsored forums (but not threads). Hopefully people are able to post about them elsewhere on the forum without SWC having moderation ability over that as well.

The other reason I wondered if they were more closely associated with the forum was because they knew the poster was an affiliate - but perhaps he mentioned that in the thread.

The post was, imo, not even that bad, here it is:

Maybe it doesn't get deleted here, does SWC have power over this thread?

I use the same name there as on the site, I'm not afraid to show it's me. Which is in stark contrast to them, the owners to the site are completely anonymous and as you can see by the e-mail, they're trying to keep everything hush-hush. The second I make something they say public, I get banned/deleted everywhere.

Again, the site is fine. It will never be great for several reasons, but I've played most my volume there lately. But **** this behaviour, they're not gonna win this fight. I'd have been fine if they asked me to tone it down, but now I'll scream it from the rooftops everywhere.

Displays of anger are rarely the correct path to getting what one wants. Usually it just makes you look bad. In this case, the cursing, derogatory wording, and condescending nature of such a post can easily be viewed as a display of anger. I think a more professional approach will more often get you what you want.

I got more of what I wanted than probably anyone else on this site. That being said, regardless of what you think of the way it is worded, for them to revoke affiliation and censor me in any way they can is hilarious to me and shows even more unprofessionalism.

Yeah and you got that stuff by being respectful and professional in the past.

It's not funny though. You're quite rude sometimes and if you don't change your attitude, nobody's going to want to work with you. You are the one being unprofessional. Not swc.

Well, I find it very funny. Luckily I don't have to work with anybody, so that's not a concern of mine. And whether it's unprefessional from SWC is anybody's judgement, I guess.

We should probably not derail any further. My point: If you criticize SWC, they ARE gonna censor you. While maintaining that they don't censor anybody. Must have hit a nerve there, they probably now they're ****ing up.