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Originally Posted by dogerist
The answer should be nobody since 0 people playing on this site at the moment.
I was a proud supporter of this site until the changes. Now my advice would be to avoid or only play for fun and learning purposes (freeroll)
There are other options if you want play bitcoin poker but this should be your last one at this time.
I disagree. I think SWC is the best option for BTC poker at the moment. I think that Betcoin has been acting really shady of late, including not reimbursing players for overraking tables late last year, soliciting positive reviews of the site from players in exchange for tournament tickets, and their security is a joke.
I pulled all my coin off of Betcoin after their latest security fiasco in which the usernames and e-mails of all their players (and who knows what else) were stolen. Their players started getting spoofed e-mails, so Betcoin responded by implementing an e-mail "security" system where there's a hash at the bottom of the e-mail next to a link where you can click to verify that the e-mail did indeed come from Betcoin. Aside from the idiocy of including the verification link in the same e-mail as the verification code, I noticed that the last three e-mails they sent me had identical hashes, which means that this is either a faux security facade to make it look like they care about security, or alternately, whoever implemented the system couldn't find their *** with both hands. In either case, it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their site.
There isn't a huge amount of traffic on SWC at the moment, but the Big O games have been pretty juicy of late, with 0.2-0.5 BTC pots not uncommon. It's also the only place where you can play OFC, 12 game, etc. The tourneys rarely overlay, so someone must be playing them.
According to pokerscout, Betcoin and SWC are ranked 51 and 52, respectively, so there's not a lot of difference in the amount of traffic. Betcoin has WPN tourneys, so it looks like more players are online, but if you want to play WPN games I would recommend playing on ACR rather than Betcoin (you can both deposit and withdraw BTC from ACR, although you have to e-mail now for BTC withdrawals).