IMO put this in "goods" or another marketplace category, as it's certainly not gambling, it's just buying a random public domain book for ~$2 USD worth of btc.

IMO make the cost extremely small, like a few $.03 when delimited in USD, and make the library huge, and you may have something.

also why not charge 10x to buy the exact title you want?

GL

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because management [coinjedi] was apparently persuaded by 1 side of a bet to declare "draw" when the bet was obvious:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=165500.0

200+ coins stolen from bettors IMO.

I appreciate all of these thoughts and understand many of our players are thinking deeply about our system.

While I cannot say too much at this stage, I feel it is important to note that SwC is already *heavily* modified from plain downloadable Mavens software.   We are continuously making server-side improvements and working closely with all software providers.

IMO exciting things will continuously happen to SwC in 2013, stay tuned.

While this makes me chuckle, I think it's important to address any issue that any player or group of players have.  Yes, someone will always be screaming that it's rigged based on 1 card.  But if someone has a legitimate question I'm 100% available micon@sealswithclubs.eu with any topic.



This is more accurate.  It won't be long until someone does an independant study.  They will find over a large dataset that cards are dealt fairly and "randomly enough" [as not to get into a deep debate about the fact that there are no random numbers]

this is a very good question.

ST6 has discussed making a provably fair shuffling algorithm.  It is very hard to do from what I understand.  We are going to have many more options available to us after we complete server-side improvements. 

Should be a fun 2013 @ SwC

it is no problem if you don't feel I'm a good investment.  Others do, and some may not really care and just want legitimate action on the WSOP.

specific results are posted in the OP:

http://www.wsop.com/players/playerprofile.asp?playerID=19110

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=67931

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/41328-bryan-micon/results/overall

http://www.pokerpages.com/player-profile/bryan-micon.htm

and of course I've been playing mostly SwC this past year. 

the last part of your post "so those who wish to invest can be aware of expected return?" tells me you haven't bought pieces of tournament players in the past.  There is a huge variance in MTTs - "expected return" is anywhere from $0 to ~$8M this summer.

I plan to gamble ~ $15k-$20k of my own money at the 2013 WSOP.  I have a new baby daughter and frankly am just not that wealthy yet where I can comfortably gamble more.  I don't feel any shame in that statement, it is simply the truth.  Sure I wish I was a multi-millionaire and could play the $50k this year, but as your apparent jealousy insists, we are on a good thing over at SealsWithClubs, so I'll simply sell the appropriate % this year, and ball out when/if I can.  

IMO from a marketing standpoint it is poor form on your part to post in this thread at all, let alone negatively.  I'm sorry SatoshiPoker didn't come along and kill SwC.  It's waaaaaaaay harder to do correctly than you think.

1)  14/82 cashes (17%) is relatively good for an MTT player (remember ~10% of the field cashes each tourney)

2)  I'm sure there are better stakes than me this summer @ WSOP - lots of really good young kids playing these days.  This thread is simply one man, Bryan Micon, offering to sell action - no problems if you don't want to buy - I'm playing the events listed as I have every year no matter what.   If I sell for btc I sell for btc, if not I will sell the appropriate % to my friends to make the MTT buy in what I want to gamble.  
3) I plan to gamble $15k-20k of my own money at this year's WSOP
4) I aim to have ~33% of myself in most events.

Just saw these posts were split from my 2013 WSOP buy-a-piece thread.

odd that a mod moved these few posts to "scam accusations," as the 2013 WSOP hasn't even started, and there is no scam accused, just links to a year-old post of someone trolling me.

I have never scammed anyone on buying pieces of my poker tournaments, and have sold pieces of the WSOP and other tournaments for years.  [not that there was any scam alleged here]

Mods please move this to off-topic

We are experiencing connectivity issues, not all players affected.

ST6 is on it, it is a datacenter issue.

new tourneys are turned off until it's fixed.

1)  I am actively revising this schedule to get very close to what I will play.  These events are BEING REMOVED as soon as I get in touch with Ender:   4, 10, 11, 22, 28, 40, 46, 49.  They are events very close to my "100% play" events like for some reason I had event #4 on there which is the noon'er on the same day as my beloved 8-game at 5pm - no chance I'm playing Event #4.   

2)  while this list may look long:  http://sealsdeals.info/?wsop     It's the events I have a shot to play - and note that some will be refunded - if I am on a Day2 from a previous event, etc.

3)  Every WSOP since 2006 I've played 10+ events, this year will be no different.  It's an intense month and it will be fun to have the weight of the bitcoin community behind me when I'm playing.  I twitter constantly during the events and will post all information showing that I bought in  (this is also public record on WSOP.com, but I like to tweet a seat card or starting stack each time for the sweat)

 

Some Poker Results:

http://www.wsop.com/players/playerprofile.asp?playerID=19110

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=67931

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/41328-bryan-micon/results/overall

http://www.pokerpages.com/player-profile/bryan-micon.htm

Find 14 WSOP cashes, 2 WSOP Final tables & a 63rd /8000+ in the Main Event for $120k+

I just can't believe you are real... seems like a made up character...

mods, please kill this / users plz report this guy

no, but it's really easy to do if you have btc in a wallet.  I need this step for accounting.

http://sealsdeals.info/?wsop

tytytyty to Ender for putting this site together.

Public Ledger to reflect all IRL-USD business:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArSX17d2S9wqdHNfcDgwOERpcHJId0JtWlFvc2c0U2c#gid=0

I am selling micro% of each WSOP tournament I am playing at this year's WSOP.  As some of you may know, SwC user 'Ender' coded a really cool staking site called SealsDeals.info.  It rocks.  I begged him to list my WSOP there, and thankfully he obliged.  

To buy piece of me, load BTC onto SwC, and type this in the chat:

#buy percent% wsop event number

For example, to buy 1.5% of any of his winnings in the main event, you would use

#buy 1.5% wsop 62c

WSOP is SOONER THAN YOU THINK starts 5/29

notes:  

-- I will be patched up in SwC gear (hit me up if you come to Vegas this WSOP - just ask me if you see me for SwC gear, I'll have some in my backpack - if you are playing a bracelet event and want to rep SwC make me give you a patch)

-- obviously WSOP is a USD gamble.  As soon as you ship btc, it is converted to USD.  You can see the rate at the top of Ender's awesome site.  As soon as I win something, it will in USD and converted to BTC within ~24 hrs after and the appropriate % you purchased shipped to the SwC account you paid with.  There are of course no restriction and you instantly withdraw the btc to any hash.

-- Obviously I will not play every single event on that list.  I will make day 2's most likely.  That means events will be almost surely refunded.  Same USD rules must apply.  Yes this is locking up your BTC in USD for a few weeks+ but IMO these shares will sell out before each event.  I also have my DonkDown community that will buy for fiat, and my pro poker friends.  So DON'T GET SHUT OUT!

-- I plan to gamble $15k-20k of my own money at this year's WSOP

-- I aim to have ~33% of myself in most events.  I have opened up 50% of each event right now, and may open up more % or reduce the unsold amount (if one of my friends buys for USD)

-- There is a public ledger here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArSX17d2S9wqdHNfcDgwOERpcHJId0JtWlFvc2c0U2c#gid=0  for all IRL business I conduct (usually selling whatever % I want to sell to my friends to make each tourney what I want to gamble)

http://www.wsop.com/players/playerprofile.asp?playerID=19110

glglglglglgl

http://sealsdeals.info/?wsop

I am a bitcoin awareness campaign at the WSOP  

and I was last yr too:







http://www.pokernews.com/poker-players/bryan-micon/

I'm selling 1/2 myself for btc, so you can gamble on me too if you like:

http://sealsdeals.info/?wsop

shout to Ender for a siiiick site

we are always grooming our list of "always on" tables but want to keep the lobby clean.

if you feel there is a limit / game that deserves "always on" please post here. 

Also, tonight, 1000 chips or 1 bitcoin tossed up for free to anyone wants a shot @ 7:30pm Vegas time (10:30pm server time I think?) for the DonkDown radio freeroll, and if you want hit up my DonkDown site and listen to me rock the mic starting at 7pm Vegas time.

hopefully will have a "weed discussion with Stienski" again, i have some budder / wax butane questions.  That + ASIC race update + much much moar!

100 chip on my hide for the freeroll as well!

Really unique idea.

Imo sites like this show the power of btc.

Anyone with an idea can turn it real asap

Tytyty

Big btc in a few!

40 btc guar / 1 btc entry

I will evaluate the current reports then in all likelihood send the codes for the winning bets.

Still a handful at 350+ we can work on a settlement or leave it and evaluate it at the appropriate date.