what a guy?!?! Why the generosity? Always gotta spread the bitcoin love. Every now and then when I have a good week playing on Seals I'll toss out some coin, hope a guy runs it up and learns about both bitcoin and selswithclubs. |
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 posted this in other "SR Down" thread in speculation too. SR page now loading, claiming maintenance. IMO positive sign that everything is as they say, upgrades for moar users. Obv in BTC world you never know, but whoever the SR boys are they have done a good job keeping it alive, growing it, and dodging the fuzz. I give them internet-brofist. |
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prolly gonna be fine / page is loading / or DEA took 3 days to install pots and fill them with honey: IMO everything seems fine on DPR's ship. |
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Re: Whoops Special Freeroll So in the Donkdown Freeroll last night, those of us seated at Table 11 ran into some glitch where our table froze at the start of the tourney and was locked up for the duration while the rest of the tables played on normally. There were well over a hundred players, I believe. Basically, those of us on Table 11 were shut out of the freeroll tourney. The players on our table and I joked around in the table chat, but never complained or asked or demanded any kind of compensation. Anyway, to make a long story even longer, the Admin on hand, named “SealsWithClubs,” I believe, or something like that (FreeMoney?) did us right and gave the people on Table 11 - the six of us who stuck around/weren’t offline - our very own freeroll with a generous 5 btc gtd prize pool. I didn’t make it in the money unfortunately, but I just wanted to say I was really impressed and really appreciate Seals and whoever was responsible for making this happen. Prior to the compensatory freeroll, I, along with the other players (I think) hadn’t really expected anything at all since The Donkdown was just a freeroll after all, thinking “Oh well, sucks for me I guess” and had just chalked it up as a weird bad beat. So yeah, basically I just wanted to say Thanks! That was really f’ing cool of you guys at Seals. Shows Seals really cares about their players imho.  Freemoney does amazing things each and every day and barely anyone except me and a handful of hardcore players ever notice. As Seals grows, during my show each Wed we have kept the freeroll big enough and consistent enough that everyone looking for a btc handout + all my Donkdown listeners + most our Seals players all pile in at the same time. It's great value for everyone and helps us test larger than usual tourneys. The issue is now known and has been passed to the game devs. #brofist for Freemoney. |
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This Thursday 7pm Vegas time we are trying something on Seals that I really can't wait to try and always really wanted to do something like this but couldn't until now. This scratches a huge online poker itch for me that I've had for a long damn time. Ok so this is what it is:
"Smooth Operator"
Type: "Smooth blinds" - blinds increase every 1 minute, but slowly and in line with the standard tourney structure.
Buy-in: 400 chips aka .4 BTC
Date: Thursday 11-8-2012
Time: 7pm PST
It's a "smooth blinds" tournament - the blinds go up every minute - but still relative to our normal tournament structure. If the blinds start 10/20 and are supposed to be 50/100 in 30 minutes, that is still the case but with 30 1-minute blind levels between. 11/22, 12/24, then skip 2 towards the end 47/94 but only for 1 minute then 49/98 etc...
So this may be awesome, at the very least it will be shenanigans. First ever tourney of this kind as I understand it. Always wanted to do this / can't wait!
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supposed to have Charlie Sherm on DonkDown radio in about an hour, I would like to help spread (and learn myself) some info on this
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Any chance of getting QR codes for deposit addresses?
Yes, I can do that easily if we are willing to trust a third party. I'll do it today or tomorrow but tuck it away somewhere and give a warning. When people pay via QR does their application usually show them the real address and ask for confirmation before sending? I don't know about others, but I pay from a blockchain.info address. Without the QR code I have to log into my wallet and copy/paste the address into my send payment. If there is a QR code I can use my blockchain.info synced wallet on my smartphone to simply scan the code(yes it shows the address) and pay from there. It's much more simple. 1) Just got on the blockchain.info iOS wallet since meeting the Bitinstant boys at Money2020. Fucking amazing. (Q: i can scan QR codes to send, but why can't I display my QR code from the app? I had to take a pic of it from the website login. #whiteppeopleproblems indeed. I know the politically correct version is #firstworldproblems and I clearly believe that a brown man could be very smart and encountering similar issues from an Android but I think it's just much funnier when you add the old-money republican white guy image to it) 2) is this Blockchain wallet really zero-trust from blockchain.info? what if blockchain.info goes down? I have read that I hold all my private keys on this iOS device, and I can somehow jimmy those into my satoshi wallet on my computer? 3) We totally need QR codes for deposits. And I love this blockchain.info wallet for a deposit/withdraw option for potential players and affiliates (did you see it works easily with bitinstant? and somehow they can paypal you for withdraw?) But I agree with what Freemoney said in that we must trust that the QR-code generator is the hash that you want it to be. I don't think we will need to trust and outside service, I think the QR-code code is freely available, I remember reading the guy open-sourced it instead of making infinite from it. I think we can host our own QR-code generator and do some extensive testing to make sure it's ginning the hashes out with precision. Obv that is not my department. |
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The "BIG BTC" 2 btc buy in tourney, 60 btc guaranteed prize pool starts in 1.5 hrs
only 7 players registered, could be a nice overlay!
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1) I envision a standard P-2-P poker client eventually being written and open-sourced. This will take years and years
2) I envision a blockchain-like hand history system where every hand ever dealt is available to everyone, and "hidden card" are of course "private keys" and you can show a guy only 1 card by only sending him 1 of your 2 keys. (obviously you can show both too, when u need to prove the huge bluff to a guy)
3) I envision trusted nodes like SealsWithClubs as "tournament hosts" who will do things like put on huge guaranteed tournaments, the p-2-p clients would only be able to register and play if the guaranteed prizepool was provably available in a wallet. The site would earn a small fee - and I do mean small - I want Tourney fees of 1-4%. 10% is the current industry standard for online, and live tournaments have just gotten insane. I think my buddy in Florida just played a "$100 tourney"
aka $81+$19 - but I digress - to have a "guaranteed poker tourney" on a P-2-P perfect poker client, you would still need a trusted node to make the guarantee, set the structure and the start time.
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I bought my first bitcoin on ebay... just wanted to get one!
Me too, and for the same reason. Same reason for buying 1st one, got it from bitmarket.eu, then started buying them from bitmarket.eu and selling on eBay at a reasonable markup. ran into the chargeback game, then ebay de-listed a bitcoin auction saying it wasn't allowed. I stopped after that, I value my eBay account even though they are fucking evil. what is the rule now? Can you win paypal disputes with blockchain verification now? |
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Bad ass presentation IMO: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/260775296268111872Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees Sending $20,000 instantly from China to US via #Bitcoin at #PaymentsForum. True innovation! #FZB #spon http://feedzebirds.com/pu90i Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees Presenting today at Payments Innovation Day. We'll be sending $20,000 from China to a mobile phone on stage instantly. pic.twitter.com/WPpY1k0N awesome. Sending $20k from China to a mobile right on the stage. In the Aria. Absolutely bad ass bitcoin gospel preaching IMO. These cats are on the front lines, directly showing other important humans this technology, directly contributing to greater world-wide understanding of bitcoin. hats off indeed. |
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Awesome shit boys. The bitinstant boys were certainly busy and this time, unlike CES, I noticed most of the people coming up and talking to them really knew what they were talking about. Maybe I got lucky, but a guy asks about limits, claims he already has bought bitcoins, wonders what they think the price in the future will be, etc. Another had bitcoins in a blockchain.info wallet and was firing them on satoshidice while we watched the live feedback from both a laptop with recent bets streaming and his phone-wallet. Others inquired about bitinstant merchant services - from the short time I was there it seems to me like the buzz around the room was there, something I didn't feel in CES. Again, small sample size, and this conference seems more likely to have bitcoin on the various entities' radars, and bitcoin maybe grew up that much more since whenever CES was. Having a bitcoin presence in these conferences make me very happy. Seeing an increase in understanding of bitcoin was even more awesome. going to have Charlie Sherm on representing the bitcoin foundation on DD radio on the 31st of this month, was glad to meet him. obv the Paypal giant super-booth that you have already seen:  and "Mastercard worldwide" on the other side:  and obviously just for the lulz  Was awesome to meet Erik, to shake the hand of the blockchain blower-upper himself, and of course the operator of the most popular BTC gaming product ever. Keep spreading the BTC gospel boys! Awesome setup, hope bitinstant prospers and anyone needing to make SealsWithClubs deposits I always refer them to bitinstant first. |
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Heading over the Aria now, can't wait to meet you guys
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Where / when / I want to meet you guys. I live here.
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It is my opinion that Vescudero is a con artist and a scammer. It appears his facebook, linkedin, and other social media pages are fakes, but well maintained by him. It is my belief that he paid back a small Ponzi scheme [ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89122.0 ] in order to go for a bigger score with something like this. It is my belief he will be dishonest with his dealings, and I would like to leave this warning early in this thread. |
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I'm a relatively known guy in the poker world, and I've been studying bitcoin for the past 1.5+ years, and it's great for the recently launched affiliate program to get the SealsWithClubs name out there. If any poker-facing media wants to understand what we are doing over a Seals I'll usually talk to them until they stop me, sometimes hours.
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wow there is a ton going on in this thread.
I run a little podcast each Wed. I would love to have someone representing the Bitcoin Foundation on the show tomorrow. It airs live from 7-8ish PM Vegas time, then posted for podcasting after that.
I have an email out to someone in the organization as well.
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Every Sunday: The biggest poker tournament in Bitcoin pops off at 6pm ET server time
ONLY
on SealsWithClubs
2 BTC buy in, 60 bitcoins guaranteed, 37 players last week with first place over 25 coins! I have a feeling this week is going to re-break the record
One of these weeks I'm not going to lose 50 coins straight and stake a few ppl into this as I have in the past...
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#justbadluck again / will try again guys
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