The idea is that the players on these platforms are much more recreational than bovada/ignition/pstars/888poker. I've played online poker for many years and for the past 3-4 years it's all about game selecting as the games get tougher.

Let's take a platform like PPPoker for example - if your club owner gets caught or decides to run with the money, you're screwed. But on pokertime you are the one in control of your funds, u don't need to settle through an intermediary etc that's why I prefer this site.

I hope I'm not coming off as 'shilling' anything. As a player I don't get anything out of bringing people in. Come take a look or don't, I'm just sharing since it's a pretty rare thing to see a functional crypto/poker platform.

Cheers!

Anyways, sorry again for not getting back to everyone... I thought I'd receive notifications by email but didn't so thought the thread got no replies (as I posted in several other forums with 0 responses).

I'll be sure to check the thread every day and happy to answer any more questions. Pls also feel free to DM me. If anyone cares, I've played for 3 months now in their 10/20 , 20/40, 50/100(50) and 100/200(100) games and haven't had any issues (denominated in CNY).

My club owner - He runs a club that I play with in another app (PPPoker if you've heard of it) told me that the players here are more fishy. The reasoning is cause most of the players here are chinese recreational players, not those sharks that dominate all of the online poker scene elsewhere. That's why there's the CNY deposit/withdrawal, it's for the chinese players while crypto is for players like us who don't live in China and can still access the games I assume.

I prefer this app more than the others because I don't need to settle seperately with the club owner every week like the other apps. I can just deposit/withdraw any time I want so it's way more convenient from a player's perspective.

Yep I also saw this thread and definitely was some cause for concern. But if you look into that thread, they actually resolved the issue and the funds were released back. Pokertime has frozen funds multiple times but ONLY if there is proven collusion on the table. They are one of, if not the toughest platform on collusion. Players will play from different devices, spoofing different IP's and sit on the same table with their friends etc, we all know that collusion is extremely prevalent in online poker and I for one invite this strict hammer by them.

There are 100+ tables running in the club I'm in alone, so I am pretty confident in the platform's credibility. But again, it's always good to be skeptical when it comes to online poker.

hey sorry for not getting back to everyone.

yeah it's pokertime.cc it's a mobile app. I was also pretty concerned regarding the RNG as heaps of apps similar to this have been known to be rigged. I got into contact with their team and have confirmed they are gaming labs RNG certified: https://access.gaminglabs.com/Certificate/Index?i=357 so at least in this regard they are pretty legit. I've personally also have not experienced any weird RNG issues.

As for 'too good to be true', there's nothing 'too good' about it. It's just a place where I've found the games to be relatively soft cause it's like 90% chinese recreational players that's all.

You don't play with the crypto, you deposit the crypto and you get chips to play with which are 1:1 to RMB. You can convert these chips to crypto at any time and withdraw at any time, and I've tested deposits and withdrawals multiple times with no issues. The chips can also be sent to different accounts on the app instantly which is pretty sweet if you're multi-tabling or whatever.

To access the games you need to join a club which I got into through a previous club runner on a different app. If anyone is interested feel free to pm me and I can ask the club head to give you an invite. You don't even need to play, you can just rail and see the games for yourselves. Just a neat way to utilise crypto for poker in a place with a bunch of fish for me and thought I'd share/ask if anyone else has tried it.

Cheers！

Has anyone heard of Pokertime? It's  a poker app I got recommended and you can use BTC/ETH/USDT to deposit to get chips which are denominated in CNY. Seems pretty legit and the tables are super dam soft. But wondering if anyone else heard of it??