Apparently, the site doesn't want my deposit.


There's a QR code but I can't trust it when there's no visible address.

Don't forget he accidentally posted to the threads about him being a scammer, repeatedly gloating and taunting his scam victims about how nobody could catch him, because he'd ripped off people for lots more and gotten away with it.

Too bad whoever invented this game came up with a good idea, then did a bunch of dumb shit to fuck it up, and is now abandoning it.

Hope someone comes up with something similar.

I think the OP needs a scammer tag for scamming us into thinking that this was a legitimate scam accusation.

Well, it's been down well over six hours now, and it's the second day in a row.

Being seized by the Feds?  Who knows.

I wonder if this "be down for hours every day" thing is going to become a daily thing.

Still broken here.  Same error.

If you click to register for the krill freerolls, it also doesn't do it, so whatever handles that registration apparently also can't connect to the poker server.

Whatever it was seems fixed now.  I have experienced such delays in the past, too.  If it's a blockchain issue, their API needs to be updated.

The delays can be a bit frustrating here.  This transaction has 3 confirms.

f4307b31a9b31682af4b2d9898edc3f3ad5946997198e0d0fe702cbdecf2801c

Yet no visible fish.

Now it's 16 confirmations.  Something's broken. 

Hi.  darkmule for the 250 BTM bonus.

So far, that looks like a guy who immediately overreacted the moment it was a few hours past due.  Three to five business days is at the very least a week, more if there's a Monday holiday.  So if he overreacted the moment the week was up, that is a bit quick.

It looks like many startups, it had some hiccups, and will probably have a few more, but I certainly didn't see anything in that thread that would justify calling it "shady."  That itself makes me think the poster unreliable.

I had an easy setup with two-factor authentication and while the message when I have sold Bitcoins has told me to expect the ACH to go through in five business days, it actually went through in two.  I haven't used it to buy BTC yet since I don't generally buy BTC.

To be fair, anyone would have lost this hand.  Even if he hadn't gone all in preflop with AK by some psychic power, the king on the flop guaranteed the hand was going all the way.

If I was going to lose my BTC1, I'd rather he'd have totally donked out so I could taunt him about it.

I'd imagine much, much more likely than millions to one.  A million seconds are about 11.57 days, so if on average there was only one bite every 11.57 days, the odds of someone biting your fish in the very last second before you withdrew would be 1 in a million, assuming that it takes you no more than a second to do a withdrawal.

In fact, fish strike many times a day (the site owner might know the exact number) and it probably takes the average person more than a second to click withdraw, choose their amount and hit the "Withdraw" button.

The fact that your fish has enough to withdraw also greatly increases the likelihood someone will want to attack it.

Yes, when a tournament starts, a new tab opens up to keep track of the details of it, and it's automatically foregrounded.  It will be in the lower left part of the client screen.

Some gamblers use Kelly criterion betting.  Many consider pure Kelly criterion betting too aggressive and as taking too high of a risk of ruin, so bet something like half a Kelly bet.

While the math is a little gnarly to do at the table especially if just playing for fun, I think the general principle is sound and can be done more by feel than by pure math.  I.e., if I had a slight edge, I might bet 5% of my roll on each trial, adjusting for current bankroll size. 

Since a casino has less tolerance for losing its entire bankroll (a nonprofessional gambler is usually just wagering disposable income), the casino should set its maximum bet at a value considerably below what Kelly would suggest.

Risk of ruin is more of a theoretical than an actual concern where most casinos are concerned, because the casino is likely to take action well before ruin is actually reached, rather than simply continuing to spread the same bets while going bankrupt.

(Needless to say, Kelly criterion does you no good if you don't have an edge.  You're going broke regardless of how you bet.)

Just sent 1 BTC, txid =  2bfb410e5c9929aa872bdc14ea787a090e85b76f21a1a6d9174edc16e1c5ce8f

Payout to 12Mhqv7s1W6yCD1fGQCZ8URGG2urv4xL29

MistCat will do for my name.

In the middle of the bottom row, there's a "Click here to read how to play" link.  It may not appear until you have made a deposit.  It doesn't appear pastable.

I've seen it, on rare occasions, attempt to reconnect, but never seen that actually work.

The greatest annoyance of Seals is that even the briefest disconnect kills the client.  The software is also too stupid to know that it has been disconnected, and since people there often play fairly slowly, you often do not notice until a minute or so passes, when someone would have otherwise started to time out.

You then manually have to reconnect, by which time your own hand is usually folded.  Just in the past couple days, it's folded me with trip kings and a pair of queens before the flop, and over the course of the past couple months, innumerable times with nothing worth caring about.

This software should notice when it's disconnected and simply reconnect.  Every other poker site does this, even the shitty ones.  Most of them do it without even giving a message, so I hadn't even noticed how often I have barely noticeable (10 ms or so) service blips.

What is particularly exasperating about this is that this capability is basically built directly into TCP, and the Mavens software uses TCP to connect to the server.  If they could fix this one tiny thing, it would go a long way to convincing me that I'm wrong about my belief that the Mavens software is written by mongoloid cretins.

That argument by the Starfish is pretty telling, actually.  Admitting that it is possible for oneself to be scammed is the first step in avoiding scams.  

The kind of person who gets scammed by a long con is the kind of person who has the arrogance to assume they're "too smart to get scammed."  So when they do bite on the hook for something, whether it's something as ridiculous as a Nigerian 419 scam or something more sophisticated, their refusal to face the fact that they've been scammed encourages them to keep throwing bad money after good.

In short, the surest way to be scammed is to be sure that you're too smart to be scammed.  It's also the surest way to keep getting scammed.

If anyone would know this, it's a poker player.  Not only is the whole game about lying and catching other people lying, but the whole milieu is filled with degenerates and scammers of various kinds.  If you couldn't spot them you wouldn't have money to keep playing poker for very long.