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This is Reef, world's first poker site where you play your bitcoins at the table. We offer professional software, anonymous poker play, 2% rake all across the board and immediate withdrawals. Please visit the site www.pokerreef.eu for more details and get invited.

If there is any question about Reef, please let us know and we'll respond as soon as possible.

Reef

So, the site not ready yet?,
Have a plan to giving away some chips for promotion?

Making it invitational only, might not be the best way to attract new players. Is it invitational only, for testing it out? or have you guys launched officially?

Are there enough players to play with?

You guys might want to add OFC. There aren't lot of sites which offer that form of poker.

What do you offer that other poker sites don't? Invitation only sounds like a bad idea given the volume of play on the largest bitcoin poker sites.

- PokerReef is live.
- No, we invest and focus on providing the best online poker software, customer support, lowest rake possible, and instant cashouts.

+1.

Unlike dice sites (playing against the site), poker sites (playing against other users) need to have a large and stable user base to work well.

Everybody is welcome to request invitation. Reef is live (officially).

http://www.pokerreef.eu/request-invitation

im very interested in this but would like to hear more about it. whats the advantage to having a limited invite only player pool. seems hard enough if it were open to all.

Do you offer free chips to try out the site?

Well, the frontpage looks good... Invitation requested.

Reef is the only poker site in the industry where you deposit bitcoin and play your bitcoins at the table. No chips.

No it isn't. You can play ring games on basically every poker site. The site in my signature allows it, and the site I play on most (sealswithclubs) allows it too. You have not done your research at all.

Haven't received invitation, I have submitted my email more than 2 hours ago

One should explain his whole site. That way it will be more convincing to everyon who wants to play in the site.

You guys might want to add OFC. There aren't lot of sites which offer that form of poker.
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Our poker games:
- Texas Holdem (limit, pot limit and no limit)
- Omaha (limit and pot limit)
- Omaha Hi/Lo (limit, pot limit and no limit)

You must buy chips in order to play at the SwC tables, at PokerReef, you play actual bitcoins at the table, you do not have to buy chips, therefore, no risk of exchange, ever.

Seems nice, i asked the invitation for review.

Cool... How to get invited here?

It seems you just click need to click the "request invitation" button on the site and enter your email address.

Thanks BigMac: You may get an invitation from a friend (excisting member), one of our exclusive Affiliate Partners, or request one via the site: http://www.pokerreef.com/request-invitation

Via the site we're sending out invites in the order they are received.

this doesn't seem legit to me. 

No one would be entering this space with good intentions without understanding their biggest competitor. On swc you are playing for bitcoins, they are just represented by chips on the table.

Invite only....thats just weird.  Are you concerned that SWC entire user base is going to flood the server on day 1?

They recommend coinbase, even though they have recently closed the accounts of users using know gambling sites.


but this part makes me more uncomfortable than anything else.....

      "We use proprietary software which has been painstakingly built for professional play, not store bought software."
         -http://www.pokerreef.eu/about


IF YOU CHOOSE TO SIGN UP AT THIS SITE, MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO NOT REUSE PASSWORDS FROM ANYWHERE ELSE

Hoping to see this poker room as soon as possible  8)

How many people actually play on this site? and do you guys have any bonuses for deposits?

Why make it invitation only? How do you count it as largest growing poker site? Largest growing is a relative term, if you had 1 member yesterday and 100 today then yes you are the fastest growing. Can I see some statistics on how many members there are? How many hands have been dealt in total?

What is the point of making it invite only?

At least your intentions are clear to us. SWC is SWC. We have no business with them and this thread is not about them either.

No Idea, thats definitely not the best strategy. If you want to get more players, you would definitely want to keep it open membership.

In short, they offer nothing other poker sites don't, and they have no user base.

Probably won't see my money any time soon.

My main point was that your site does not seem like it is legit.  Any legit site operator would be at least familiar with the biggest competitor. (you play with bitcoin on SWC...you aren't buying anything)

In case my intentions were not clear to all, i think that you are either a scammer or a fool.....I urge players to proceed with caution.

Good for you.

Hmmmm sounds boring to me.

"no risk of exchange, ever"

I take offense to this.  You suggest that such risk exists at SwC, yet the players have told you many times in this thread that you are simply wrong, and they have a 3+ year operating history to point to as evidence.

playing for "actual bitcoins" would mean you are trading private keys each hand?  each bet?  who holds the "actual bitcoins" while they are in the pot?  multi-sig system?

Best of luck out there, the market is fickle and demands maximum transparency with minimal amounts of easily disprovable marketing language.

yep wtf is this bs invite only lol

Answer this, or any of the other posts where people ask why you'd make it invite only.

We started Reef by inviting a few (pro) online poker players to smooth out any rough edges, and allowed some of them to invite other players and so it went on. Believe it or not, Reef is growing via our invitation only policy.

but whats the point of it ?

In the past there have been poker sites which have failed by launching, mainly because they are not able to get much traffic. By invitation only, you will get lesser traffic. The pro poker players enjoy playing at sites which have fishes. And by only inviting the pros, you are missing out on the action for them.

totally agree with that, and most of all, who doesn't like fishes to eat? ::)

The ‘invitation tree mechanism’ allows us to build up the room in good tempo with players willing to inject money into the game, repeatedly. We can’t predict the future, so who knows… maybe at some point Reef will switch to open registration. Still, PokerReef is not a closed poker club. The fact that we invited pro players to get feedback on our software doesn’t mean we’re focussing on attracting serious (pro) players to play serious poker. We are not. You can request invitation here:http://www.pokerreef.eu/request-invitation

Yes, many have failed (even Full Tilt after so many years). It would do us all good to not look back but keep our eyes on the road. Player bitcoins will be held in various well known wallets and you will be encouraged to take your money with you whenever you are done. We do not need to hold your money for any amount of time.

Also, we do use chips. They are valued as bitcoins!