Why are there so few players at web-based bitcoin poker websites?

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Quote from: wasteman on July 03, 2015, 02:29:24 PM

1 thing I forgot to mention too, these sites allow US players to deposit via btc, mg, wu, etc. This means the pool of players is greater than say a btc only poker room. Which is why I suggested these two sites as btc poker players might want to access a room with a liquid amount of players from all over the world... my post wasn't intended to be an advertisement.

B.S.

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1 thing I forgot to mention too, these sites allow US players to deposit via btc, mg, wu, etc. This means the pool of players is greater than say a btc only poker room. Which is why I suggested these two sites as btc poker players might want to access a room with a liquid amount of players from all over the world... my post wasn't intended to be an advertisement.

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Quote from: wasteman on July 03, 2015, 02:16:19 PM

If you are a US based poker player check these sites out.. These sites are 100% trustworthy with several benefits to the player.

5dimes.com
Heritagesports.eu

- very nice, big poker rooms. decent promos and daily tournies. btc to usd conversion instantly when you deposit so you are'nt exposed to btc price fluctuation. withdraw via btc within a few minutes.

As always play at your own risk... but these sites have always payed me out when I won.

Was just talking about unnecessary advertisement in a explanation thread and here comes another advertisement, of a site anyone barely know(at least I don't)

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If you are a US based poker player check these sites out.. These sites are 100% trustworthy with several benefits to the player.

5dimes.com
Heritagesports.eu

- very nice, big poker rooms. decent promos and daily tournies. btc to usd conversion instantly when you deposit so you are'nt exposed to btc price fluctuation. withdraw via btc within a few minutes.

As always play at your own risk... but these sites have always payed me out when I won.

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This thread is turning more of an advertisement thread then an explanation(as asked by the author "Why are there so few players at web-based bitcoin poker websites?") .

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Quote from: DiscoverCebu on July 03, 2015, 08:36:38 AM

Personally I don't even play poker, don't know why its such a big deal, I like playing on dice sites. Great house edge and manageable payout for trying out many strats.

dice is not interesting for a lot of people, on it you just have to click the button and the outcome shows up instantly on a screen, no thrilling experience

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Personally I don't even play poker, don't know why its such a big deal, I like playing on dice sites. Great house edge and manageable payout for trying out many strats.

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Quote from: skathan on July 03, 2015, 04:33:13 AM

what bitcoin poker site currently has the most users?

There are some sites such as swc, betcoin, nitrogen and bitspoker..but if you're looking for ring games and huge GTD Tourney, you may try bitspoker. More than 140 online players and 17 active tables atm and most of them on ring games including me, and others are playing in 8btc GTD tourney..

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what bitcoin poker site currently has the most users?

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Quote from: ticoti on June 29, 2015, 07:27:49 PM

Because poker needs many players to play,and if there are no players, nobody play and everybody goes to other sites

Not much of a valid reason. People who want to play would sit at a table and wait for the others, and people join soon . Someone always has to start be it any site.

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More and more online poker websites are opening on daily basis, they are only sharing the existing traffics or players and some people also quited just as you did.

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Because poker needs many players to play,and if there are no players, nobody play and everybody goes to other sites

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Quote from: apriyani420 on June 29, 2015, 01:15:31 PM

Quote from: Bitus on June 29, 2015, 11:06:43 AM

Luckyflop.eu is getting busier lately.
Very good site to play poker!
This is the site what I was looking for. (Not rigged)

well if you play just for some time and withdraw instantly after playing it they wouldnt scam you, but if you want to hold bitcoins i would trust only seals with clubs website

U are wrong, luckyflop would not scam.
Ive been playing and have a decent amount.
Never had a problem..

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Quote from: Bitus on June 29, 2015, 11:06:43 AM

Luckyflop.eu is getting busier lately.
Very good site to play poker!
This is the site what I was looking for. (Not rigged)

well if you play just for some time and withdraw instantly after playing it they wouldnt scam you, but if you want to hold bitcoins i would trust only seals with clubs website

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Building something trustful like swc is hard, you must work really hard to purpose something good.
Yet, there is still people that thinks that making a poker website in btc is the easiest thing in the world and then puff, they disappear 1 week later.

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Quote from: tsoPANos on June 19, 2015, 03:45:35 AM

Also for some weird reason, bitcoin gamblers really like the classic dice game.
They are free to customise the odds. Maybe it's because of satoshidice, which was
once the biggest gambling site out there.

That in no way should be the reason. Just because you like Dancing as well as Singing, doesn't mean you will leave one of those for the other.

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Luckyflop.eu is getting busier lately.
Very good site to play poker!
This is the site what I was looking for. (Not rigged)

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Quote from: StupidMoron on June 17, 2015, 12:25:07 PM

Why are there so few players at web-based bitcoin poker websites?

Here are the number of people that are currently playing ring games:
1. nitrogensports.eu: 14 users now playing
2. betcoin.ag: 30 users now playing
3. luckyflop.eu: 1 user now playing

When I used to play at FullTilt and PokerStars (and PartyPoker many years ago), there would always be THOUSANDS of players. Don't those people still want to play?

Why don't the existing web-based bitcoin poker websites market their services more effectively?

Why don't PokerStars and FullTilt offer web-based bitcoin poker websites?

Have you tried bitspoker.com? I see there are a lot of online players play in the ring games (87 online players, 21 active tables when I write this)
I think it is a high stake poker room, the lowest stakes in the ring game is 100/200bits with minimum buy in 4000bits, but it is worth enough to make some deposit and play because there are many active players..even I see there are some players in the waiting list of the ring games.

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There is couple of reasons really:

1. Bitcoin Community tends to gravitate towards Dice or other 'single player' casino games where you play against the house.
2. Bitcoin Poker sites are not on the par with the best 'normal' fueled poker rooms, not enough tournaments, players etc..
3. It is as you said OP if bitcoin gambler want to play poker and see that bitcoin poker sites are not populated he would rather go to some place with bigger community.

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