FYP noob.

paxful is problematic atm. I have spent the past 30 hours trying to unfreeze my account whch they froze on a pattern observed.... ???

anyway... in themeanwhile I have had the opportunity to hear many other's stories. The conditions are odd--- reports and evidence of very different treatment and options by country.

don't take chances!

and hey...let's be careful out there

It has been said many times. Do not use a public/commercial wallet service to transfer to or from SWC.

If you must buy from them, transfer to your local, private wallet and from there to SWC. If selling, do the reverse. Always use a private cutout.

I think he was actually correct. Krill = how much rake you've paid. Your rakeback % is based on how much lifetime krill you have.
Signing up thru an affiliate (and players are allowed to make as many accounts as they want on swcpoker) = a chance to get even more rakeback, possibly.

For players who did not initially sign up thru an affiliate and have already paid enough rake/earned enough krill to not want to make a new account and lose their current level of rakeback, management - in SOME cases - has approved players to be moved under an affiliate of their choice - which ensures the player maxes out their rakeback from the site and gains any extra BTC that some affiliates may offer.

Re the intermediary wallet:

trying not to beat the dead horse, but for me, after numerous ACH purchases from Coinbase in the $5k-$25k range, a warning from Coinbase to not do this anymore, and more direct sends to gaming sites, my Coinbase account was effectively shutdown.

They did NOT seize my funds and gave me 30 days to empty my Coinbase account of BTC or other crypto that I still had in my Coinbase wallet (which was 0), but I was unable to perform any other functions within this 30 day window. I was lazy and dumb, not cheap and trying to save on fees.

There are other exchanges, friends that allow me to trade w them, and it's possible for some 2p2ers to get approval to trade in the HSNL trading thread. Many players get scammed in the chatbox. Swc management warns against trading in the "trollbox" because of this possibility and I do not fault them for the scams that have taken place there. The warning is not featured prominently and policy changes are often made without notice or communication to the players. But the warning does exist.

I would, however, recommend that the Krill requirement to chat in the trollbox be raised far above the current minimum requirement of 1 Krill (an amount which can be earned in a few minutes of nano/microstakes play) = virtually no requirement. This would prevent some serial scammers from so easily pulling off scams against poker players who may be new to online poker and BTC. If the Krill requirement was raised to even 100-1,000, it would force the serial scammers to jump over an extra hurdle at which they might not be so adept - playing poker.

There are some mods/admins on the site who do the thankless task of cleaning up the trollbox, but this seems like far and away the clearest, easiest solution, so I'm not sure why it hasn't been implemented. Not that scams wouldn't take place, but this would make it much tougher. More than half the time I check out the trollbox during peak hours, the main topic of conversation seems to be the scam of the hour/day/week, w the chatters administering their own brand of pcourt. Amusing at times, but it can be tough on those who have been scammed. To be clear, there is no requirement to chat, but it is often where new players go for quick info about the site or a game.

Recreational players continue to pile into the brick and mortar rooms; but online poker's recreational pool is contracting (esp in the West). It is difficult to find a NL200+ game with more than 1 recreational player. Of the games I butcher, NLHE is one of my worst. When speaking w the OMCs in the live $1/$3 or $2/$5 games I occasionally sit, the overwhelming response when someone mentions online poker is something along the lines of "it's not trustworthy because . . " Imagine being that new online poker player and getting scammed via the trollbox, in some fashion. Would you come back for more? Some cool people on swcpoker. But if there are means to help get rid of, or minimize the scammers, I'm all for it.

Raising the krill requirement to chat would be a nice start. Along with encouraging new business development, it encourages players to put in some more volume, so they can chat if they desire. The current state, whereby 1 krill gains access to chat and 500 krill lets you change your chat color, leaves honest newbies looking to chat about the site met w skepticism that they are scammers, or worse - they end up getting scammed by by another player with 1-500 krill. What is there to lose by making the krill requirement to both chat and choose the color of your chat an equal 500? I see plenty the site has to gain from doing this. Plenty of players may also disagree with me wrt this issue.

I'm using private BTC wallet since I heard Coinbase doesn't like transfers from/to gambling sites.

So I send btc from Poker room to private wallet and than from private wallet to Coinbase pro.

edit: meh, same as what ronmon said

The problem I'm having with SWC is the player pool. If you dont want to play NLHE you are going to have problems getting action on this site. The 5 card plo8 games at all stakes (beyond 2c/4c) have pretty much died since I started playing 6 or 7 weeks ago. On the odd occasion that bigger games do run, they often break up as soon as one player goes bust. There is a big O end boss who i see open sitting at the higher stakes most days called WaheeBoy and I have never seen him play 1 hand of poker.

On Sunday at near enough peak time, I checked and there were a total of 27 people playing across maybe 6 tables. There were 0 SNGs running and of the 4 MTTS running, three were free rolls.

Part of the problem is they simply offer too many games, fine if you have a huge pool, but if you have 27 people playing near prime time, what's the point of offering OFC2-7 at a multitude of stakes?

Player pool aside, I actually really enjoy playing here, the software seems solid and (not that I particularly care) there is more of a community feel.

turned out that i was frozen for multi-account TOS violation

i lost my 2fa and asked them if it was okay to make a new account. they said yes. i made a purchase and moved it without issue. then i received a small amount to my wallet and my account was immediately frozen.

many accounts are being frozen after making a depo.
i think this, in the wake of the gift card scams, is possibly:
a: face saving
b: possible cash grab to pay the gift card victims

or its innocent and i get my BTC...

hoping for the latter

I'm splitting hairs here, but technically krill is a points system based on how many raked hands a player is dealt into. More points = more rewards (such as higher rakeback and entry into some protected freerolls).

They used to have periodic Krillroll tournaments for those who qualified with nice prize pools. Those were the days!

This Sunday, there is a .001 ($10) tournament organized by Bitcointalk with .025 ($250) added for first and second. Alongside the .01 Big BTC and a couple other good tournaments!

glitch, the chat mod, is power tripping again haha. Telling people in his own site's chat to go **** themselves and play on PokerStars and stuff.

The reason nothing ever runs here is not that there are too many games, it's that this site is run by ****ing idiots. They've been trying to implement re-entries for over 10 months now.

Idk, I’ve had no issue getting action in the 11 game mix the last two evenings. We played 4-5 handed for a couple hours. Granted, I’ve been away for a while, but usually people would play if I opened a table and requested action.

Wrote an email after this and BOOM!

love love love this... we should make one of those facebook videos where the actor drops card after card...dramatically

Haven't played for a few days and there was a HUGE update download when I fired up my client. Still waiting for the installation to finish.

Wow, that's freaking ugly!

It's also freaking useless. Absolutely no new features, strictly aesthetics only. And that with a software that is so sorely lacking in important features, it's just a testament to the incompetence of the SWC "team".

Someone's been losing lately...

And I'm sorry that you don't consider being able to see mucked losing hands now as a new feature.

Multiple NLHE tables have been running every day because of that bad beat jackpot. It’s currently sitting at almost 1.2 BTC.

I haven't been playing SWC lately.

I'm sorry you consider something that literally every other site has had for 10+ years a new feature.
Wonder when NL27SD comes back.

Remember what they promised us when they rolled out 3.0? Or how long it was since they said they would refactor?

It's a well known fact that their team is **** and it results in ~200 people, 20 of them playing. And that's okay if that's what they're shooting for, doesn't mean you cannot point it out.

Go play your heart out at SWC for all I care, in the current form I won't recommend it to anyone though.

Saw you sitting open face there literally yesterday.

You even get one re-entry in this months Big BTC.

You just like to hear yourself complain. I think the TEAM is doing a GREAT job! Keep SwC Great!

+1 SWC team is the easiest and fastest to deal with on anything.

We must be on vastly different timezones then. Anyways, I'm glad to hear people enjoy the site, I agree that it's a decent site to play nano-low stakes exotic games or the BBJP tables on and necessary for US players.

For anyone else, there's just better alternatives.

anyone else not received rakeback in the past couple days?

didn't get any last night, that's the first time I haven't received it