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marlais- I Love You.  But .... never ??

For the record, SWC Poker is not the same as the old Seals With Clubs. Micon is not (and has never been) involved with SWC Poker, and it's not run by the same people who ran Seals With Clubs. The original Seals With Clubs was shut down a long time ago, and there is no plan to resurrect it. However, SWC Poker has a listing of old Seals accounts, and if you e-mail [email protected], they will transfer your old account name and krill over to the new site if there was an e-mail address associated with your Seals With Clubs account.

If you are not a spokes person you are doing a good job to promote and a even better job of making it seem like no one is involved from the ole days in the new site. If this is the case,there really is little reason for many of us to go and play since the vibe is no longer. But something tells me that the same people are around the scene in some form and this is just some smoke and mirrors.

Micon is not (and has never been) involved with SWC Poker

Hello, I run SwC Poker and can answer any questions you may have about my site or bitcoin gambling in general.

For the record, SWC Poker is not the same as the old Seals With Clubs. Micon is not (and has never been) involved with SWC Poker, and it's not run by the same people who ran Seals With Clubs. The original Seals With Clubs was shut down a long time ago, and there is no plan to resurrect it. However, SWC Poker has a listing of old Seals accounts, and if you e-mail [email protected], they will transfer your old account name and krill over to the new site if there was an e-mail address associated with your Seals With Clubs account.

For sure, it seems to me like at the very least they should have opened up some sort of logins on the website so that you could recover your old account and maybe chit-chat in the trollbox.  As it stands, I haven't even been able to log-in since Dec 2014.  In March 2015 when Micon said android or some sort of cross-platform ability was coming, I believed.  I don't really believe anymore.

So your issues with SWC are just accessibility?  That's fair, and I do agree that it should have been done by now or at the very least communicated about with the customers in a timely manner.

CoinTelegraph.com has come up with its Top 10 Bitcoin Fails, and there are plenty of them.

Online gambling was not immune to the failings.

The website lists online poker site Seals With Clubs and its founder Bryan Micon along side dodgy banks, drug dealers online and Kidnappers, among others.

The Seals With Clubs site came in at number 4. 

#4: Unlicensed Online Gambling Dens

Gambling has always been in a legal grey area, and online platforms for the activity are no exception.

Bryan Micon, operator of the closed down bitcoin-fueled poker site Seals With Clubs, has been charged by the Nevada Attorney General with operating an unlicensed gambling enterprise, and faces up to ten years in prison and a US$50,000 fine. Interestingly enough it seems he is willing to try an unconventional and as-of-yet untested defense strategy, arguing that Bitcoin is not the same as Currency in the context of gambling law.

According to information available from Nevada’s Attorney General’s website, the investigation into Micon is unique as it is believed to be the first state-level criminal prosecution of an illegal poker website operating with Bitcoin. In a statement released on the Attorney General’s website, AG Burnett, Chairman of the Nevada State Gaming Control Board said that his organisation was “pleased to work” with the office of the Attorney General to stop an interactive gaming website operating without a gaming license.

- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 16:40

Unless you used to play the old seals on your android tablet on your sofa, and on your android phone on a long bus commute.  And you haven't run windoze software since you played Sid Meyer's Civilization when you were a kid.  In that case the old seals was awesome and the new seals is just promises that one day you're recover your account and your krill.  And after waiting more than a year for that one day, it starts to feel like it was just bullshit.  Okay, so that's why people are saying it.

I see people saying this, and I'm wondering why you felt the old seals > new SWC?  Granted I only played on old seals sparingly, but the grid software blows the mavens software out of the water.

I wish it weren't true, because the old seals was amazing.  It really seems like after the Icon left things never were the same.  Image suffered, development suffered, ...  Now looking for the next reliable poker house for bitcoins, I think it's completely up for grabs at this point.

Just because they aren't spending money to develop new platforms, doesn't mean they will close the site. The site still makes money and if you actually play a variety of games and sit and wait a few minutes- you will have more action then you can handle.  

Confirmed dead

If seals is not having issues then they would be expanding. Failure to do so points to issues they are unwilling or unable to fix.
Really no other way to read it, even if you are a fan boy.

I feel like you agree with when I was saying initially, which is that the site is in serious trouble.  Glad we're on the same page.