Topic: SealsWithClubs.eu | Largest Bitcoin Poker Site | No Banking | Fast Cashouts - page 221. (Read 1404011 times)

Looking forward to the promos. Usually when starting tables they fill pretty quickly and table starter gone. Thanks for the response as always. More incentives will lead to more play and more rake just throwing that out there.

Thanks for the 2x the krill also.  

I'm sorry if chat-blackening offends anyone, you should just think of it like (possibly unwanted) flirting. You can set your color back to normal yourself in the "Edit Account Details" page linked from your "My Account" page.

Recently players with less than 500 krill were blocked from changing their own color, this lets downloadable client users bock all newbies chat in one setting. Fun fact, when you hit 500 krill your color changes imperceptible to mark you out from the newbies and stop you from being newbie blocked. Of course, if you suck at talking people may still block you individually.

We want to give players tools to customize their own chat experience instead of completely chat banning anyone they might enjoy talking to or listening to. Currently the flash client is terrible for this, but the downloadable client is getting pretty good.

Right off the top we essentially give 50% back in the sense that we're about 50% cheap than 'normal' sites. Then we do 50% more back for 2 and 3 handed play at 6 and 9 seat ring tables. So even with no krill lever you should think of it as 50% to 75% RB at Seals.

It is rather slow to move up krill ranks, but unlike most sites you don't lose your rank for inactivity, it just slowly marches up.

5000 krill gets you in the 140 hour krill freeroll (that's a bit more often than every week) and you don't have to keep playing in order to keep access to that. Right now the prize is 2000 chips and we haven't changed that even as bitcoin values have gone up 10x and more, same with the fixed chip prizes. We might have to change them eventually, but we like to keep things stable. Wave 4 still says tba because there might eventually be something else merchandise related that players become eligible for at that level.

Starting tomorrow, krill will be awarded to 0.1 precision. Low games still get proportionally more krill per rake because of how square roots work, krill is sqrt(rake), but with less distortion from the rounding we can offer more lower stakes games and put them in the launcher (coming soon).

Also starting tomorrow 2x krill for play between 2am and 10am ET.

There will be more promos coming, I'll give hints when I'm sure the ones we want to offer can be achieved in a smooth way technically.

Makes sense about the chat to black. When are new promos coming out I heard something was in the works. One thing to remember is that you started out when site started and bitcoins were 10 dollars per bitcoin or less now bitcoin is 130 per bitcoin so maybe krill needs to be updated for those of us with site for couple of months. I have been playing 3 months. I put in a lot of volume comparatively  and am almost at 10k krill which is 2 percent and that really isn't going to get me much rakeback. Krill takes a long time to accrue and while I understand what you are saying should have a little more inscentive for people putting in a lot of volume to offset the variance . Going to take me over a year to get to 50k in krill . A lot of sites give you 35 percent right off I understand Seals can't give those types of deals as a new site but something a little more player friendly would really be appreciated.

1)  when I first started playing SwC, in early 2011, I thought the krill system was stupid and asked Freemoney to scrap it right away.  Boy was I wrong.

2)  unlike other sites, krill never goes down, only up.  Your krill RB% can only go up, so it needs to go slow.  My krill level right now is ~250k, good for 27% RB.  Now obviously I'm the Chairman site pro, but if I were a regular player I'd be happy about this now.  Also, I'm not a super-grinder, meaning I don't have 4x tables of cash up every day for 4+hrs, so this level is achievable in a reasonable timeframe.

3)  The system can certainly use tweaks, and we are going to tweak as the site continues.  Expect a more logical progression and yes we will make a prize for 5000 krill eventually too   [we get that 1 lots]

Hi,

sometimes a chat needs a-blackin', usually do to excessive trolling or chat-flooding.

The fact that it was blacked, and not fully removed, usually means the person didn't do severe harm and just needed a time out.  I likely forgot to un-time out, but that's the risk you run when you fuck up the SwC chat!

No problems to email me [email protected] after the fact if it seems like the punishment went on too long. 

Whats the deal with turning peoples chat to black ? Anita finally had her chat turned to black I see but she was an amusing troll. Just wondering because I thought it was uncensored chat even though she is really annoying pretty harmless. Hope I don't ever get my chat turned to black.

Bitcoin making price of poker go up again ugh I liked the price at 110 level cracking 130 today.

Yeah, promotion for "mid stake"+ regs seems to be lacking but micon said there is something exciting new coming up so lets hope its in this regard too

Yeah it is the other negative: u get 35 for reaching 500, some 50 for other point (dont remember) and 100 for reaching 2500. If even we suppose u reach 2500 when u paid 2500 mBTC rake (which is less), then u have already bennpaid 185mBTC which is ~ 7/5% rakeback.
But then from 2500 to 10000 is a flat journey until u reach 10K and get a flat %2 rake.
Seals is a nice poker room, but I think their promotions needs a complete revision and repair.

One other thing to note that is kind of misleading is in promotions. You get 25 50 and 100 chips for reaching certain waves. It would be nice for the site to keep adding as players reach levels as players are raking for the site but chips stop at 100 . The thing that is misleading is there is a to be announced for reaching 5k but as those of us who have reached 5k krill you get zero so may want to take out the tba as players who reach it will be disappointed.   I hope im not seen as bitching too much I just think rewarding palyers for raking will get site more rake because players will have more inscentive to rake for the site if rewarded. Love the Seals poker

Oh, definitely. The best sites are those that give out more rewards. I have no issues with a freeroll that has 5000 people and pays out to the top 200-250 (smaller amounts, but it adds up. It's better than wishing and hoping to win a few first/second/third places). Bodog was like that.

That is exactly my point too. Look at other big name sites: they either have depositor freerolls or limited number of freerolls available for each player per day or week, etc. And also they have better prize structure for their big crowded freerolls.
Every hour 50chips freeroll, with min 150 entrants, and only 3 prizes... again I put the irony: some slot or hourly lottery would be more fun then.

The donk-fests are why I avoid freerolls unless I am just extremely bored and need something to do. Otherwise I get irritated because of people who go all-in every hand, raise every hand, etc. Once you finally decide to call them because you have good cards, they luck out (like a 4 and 8 off suit and land a 4 of a kind) and you're out of the game.

I agree with you, better to put that 1,2 BTC in other promos than SUCH freerolls. But only because these freerolls harm more than make any positive...
These freerolls make one hate the game, random bang bang----bang---------bang---and one random become winner to win some 10 or 15 chips.
U guys say it makes a bankroll for non-depositors to play the real, I disagree, at the moment they are such crowded by donkey bang bang junks that I have a great doubt if one could make a single 100BB stack through them in a mounth with consistent playing... and if one can make, good for us.
But here we should look at history and tradition again: what big poker rooms put freerolls for...

Hmm, from my experience most people who win freerolls end up playing ring games or tournaments. Usually you can't cash out until you've built it up, so there's really no reason NOT to try to build it unless people really think they are going to keep winning.

I do see your point of view though. It helps explain why a lot of sites don't do real freerolls and instead have "depositor only" freerolls.

Im not talking about consistently winning im talking about giving the 1.2 a day to players who rake and earn for the site instead of people who aren't going to deposit. if a site has 300 players I will go to the one that has most ring games with cash going and not the one that has 300 players 200 of which are dedicated freeroll players only so I disagree with you 100 percent.

I will go to a site with 150 cash players over a site with 300 players of which 200 are freerollers .

The chances of consistently winning is very low. And I completely disagree with your idea on freerolls and what they should be for. The way I see it, more people with money increases the amount of players there are, which brings in more people, which snowballs. If you saw a poker site with 10 people who had $50 or a site with 50 that had $10, you would be more likely to pick the site with 50.

That small amount of money adds up to 1.2 or 1200 bitcoins a day that should be going to reward players who rake and earn money for the site not freeloaders who have no intention of depositing and will either cashout winning our use that money to shortstack the ring games and freerola depositing players.

This is what I was thinking. Anyone that plays poker seriously is going to avoid freerolls, unless they are doing them for training purposes (to show others play styles). There's no reason to put yourself in a donk-fest to win a small amount of money unless you aren't that good and are hoping to get better.

Freeroll money could be used for more promos. Its a shame that the triple krill for helping the site from six am to nineam and playing ring was taken away. Give something back to the loyal players. Even at triple krill going to take forever to get to 50k to get a descent rakeback. Need some more promos from 10 krill to 50krill level as there is nothing in between.

Its the same group of players playing in the freerolls. I see the same group of players that are constantly playing freeroll also constantly begging in lobby for chips and getting them. They aren't depositing. Pretty tilt inducing to see site give away 50 points every hour every day 24 hours every hour which comes to 1200 a day over 1k instead of giving it to players who contribute to site by playing ring games and earning money for the site. Obviously freeloaders aren't going to deposit . Hourly freerolls are not needed to have players try out the site they could have 3 freerolls for that btw. Love the site wish there where a few more inscentives put in place for ring players to prosper rather then the freerollers who aren't going to deposit as I see the same players there  . THanks , how about some aviator promos also?