Topic: SealsWithClubs.eu | Largest Bitcoin Poker Site | No Banking | Fast Cashouts - page 274. (Read 1404012 times)

Please do not take the following as a criticism, only a critique;

As one of the players that was on the frozen table (table eleven) and one of the six players that was seated at the "Whoops" freeroll, I have to admit, I was a bit confused with all that happened.  There was no acknowledgement of any kind from any admin that there was a problem with the initial table (eleven) we were at.  I tried reloading several times, switched to two different browsers, even a restart, before the table was totally removed from the tournament without any information about what was going on.  I just happened to be still logged in trying to figure out what was wrong when I was suddenly thrown into another tournament with no warning.

I did manage to win the "Whoops Freeroll", and the payout was quite nice, I honestly would have preferred communication as to what was happening, and reinsertion into the main freeroll at the current average chip stack plus 10% or so.  While I applaud the fast reaction, and the attempt to make things "right" for those who were frozen at the main DD tournament, I feel the solution was completely unfair to those other players still at the DD tables.  They had to play against 150+ other players to win a maximum of 1250 chips, I had to play against 5 others to win 3250 chips.  Clearly I had a major advantage over those at the DD tables.

As someone who has played poker for over 20 years, sometimes as my job, I can honestly say I will never like or trust online poker.  I am quite happy to see Seals with Clubs making an attempt to fight back against the quite futile regulations on online gambling, but I feel some changes must be made before most "serious" poker players will ever consider it more than a novelty in a niche market.  There must at all times be an admin online to handle any issues that arise.  There must at all times be a moderator online to monitor the chat system.  (What was going on in the chat last night was less intelligent than the dialog in a home made porn movie.)  There should be a way to report players, whether for suspected collusion, chat spam, abusive language, or anything else.  Adobe Flash is garbage, it is buggy, exploitable, and as I found out, if you set it up to be as secure as possible, it simply doesn't work quite a bit of the time, including with SWC.  Have a custom client built, then have it audited, then have it audited again by someone else, and then do it again.  "Hand for hand" play is a must in multi-table tournaments when nearing certain milestones (payout changes, bubbles, etc), the amount of time bagging going on is ridiculous.

While I will continue to hope that SWC grows and improves, and I support what it is doing, I will never be more then a "casual" player with a maximum of $50 at risk.  There is just to much more out there right now with a superior setup and larger trust base with the simple use of a proxy/VPN.  I wish everyone at SWC the best, and hope to see you at the tables.

Freemoney does amazing things each and every day and barely anyone except me and a handful of hardcore players ever notice. 

As Seals grows, during my show each Wed we have kept the freeroll big enough and consistent enough that everyone looking for a btc handout + all my Donkdown listeners + most our Seals players all pile in at the same time.  It's great value for everyone and helps us test larger than usual tourneys.  The issue is now known and has been passed to the game devs. 

#brofist for Freemoney.

Re: Whoops Special Freeroll

So in the Donkdown Freeroll last night, those of us seated at Table 11 ran into some glitch where our table froze at the start of the tourney and was locked up for the duration while the rest of the tables played on normally. There were well over a hundred players, I believe. Basically, those of us on Table 11 were shut out of the freeroll tourney. The players on our table and I joked around in the table chat, but never complained or asked or demanded any kind of compensation.

Anyway, to make a long story even longer, the Admin on hand, named “SealsWithClubs,” I believe, or something like that (FreeMoney?) did us right and gave the people on Table 11 - the six of us who stuck around/weren’t offline - our very own freeroll with a generous 5 btc gtd prize pool. I didn’t make it in the money unfortunately, but I just wanted to say I was really impressed and really appreciate Seals and whoever was responsible for making this happen.

Prior to the compensatory freeroll, I, along with the other players (I think) hadn’t really expected anything at all since The Donkdown was just a freeroll after all, thinking “Oh well, sucks for me I guess” and had just chalked it up as a weird bad beat.

So yeah, basically I just wanted to say Thanks! That was really f’ing cool of you guys at Seals. Shows Seals really cares about their players imho.

cool, Yes i have to realize I'm playing with veterans, I am having another go, Just got some more chips, I'm hitting the tables, I will play a little more reserved I think, See what happens.

Hmm. That's a little odd. I think I will take the fact that I lost my money before I even got to play as a blessing.  

Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays...

Actually this has not crossed my mind.....Untill now, How do you know this? you either have to be part of the team or your sitting with a fat wad in your account, I was a bit hasty and upset when I last posted, I had just gone through 2600 chips in under 2 days (on small tables 2/4 3/6) I even got a poker friend (pro) to come over and watch my play, He was astonished, Without fail every pocket good pair I had, All would fold before I even bet. Are their any patches to see other players cards? I would feel safer if someone tryed to see if this is possible.

As I say i was a little pissed off, I will come back, I just fail at everything I do.

Those two HU tables are open again.

The link for opening tables is https://sealswithclubs.eu/open-tables/

If you don't see a 2 or 9 player table of any stakes or type of game you want up there jeust email [email protected] or post here. I will be adding tons over the next few days since we have plenty of room now.

There will be one for SNGs open soon. That page will require you have enough chips to play the game you choose and will register you for the game. So make sure you unregister (in the software like normal) before leaving. There will be a warning on that page when it opens.

thanks, was worried for a second!  finally found a place i could play and cashout instantly and was super bummed when i couldn't find em today!

Right, it will be open soon.

Sorry, I went on a cleaning frenzy after I turned on the new "open-table" page. But right now it is set to only work for players with 10k krill until I set up another way to avoid abuse. I'll open them back now.

why in the hell did you remove the 5/10 and 10/20 HU tables?  I played them daily.. please put them back otherwise i really have no reason to continue playing on seals.  I was building a bitcoin roll with these and am not ready to move up to 25/50... rake is low enough that the 5/10 and 10/20 games are perfectly fine.. Horrible decision...

I'm guessing this isn't listed yet, correct?  I don't see it on the site yet.

squall, i've felt like that at times on every poker site i've ever played on.  seals is legit tho imo

He was asking which tournament you were playing, but you didn't even say it was a tournament.

There is a 5BTC freeroll tournament tonight at 10:30pm ET, absolutely free. You probably won't win, but you can't lose ;-)

Sorry, Tourny? dont know that word, Anyways, Not the site, It's me, I'm so utterly crap at poker I really should quit whilst i'm behind.


I suck!, and thank you. I like word play like that.

That sucks. But your signature is awesome.

Heh, which tourny you talkin about?

Well, I wont be back on that again, I really am the most unluckiest person ever!!! Every fucking hand I was wiped out, Every pocket aces everyone folds!! like they can see my hand.

Sorry had to get that off my chest.

See yas.

No, the 50 chip freeroll will just resume at 11am, the "10am 2000 guarantee" was started at 10:30am.