>Very smart people
>People who leave money in a darkwallet run by unknown criminals

Pick one.

You mean like people stopped using dollars after Bernie Madoff's scam was revealed?

All Bitcoin being stolen means is it's worth enough to make stealing it worthwhile.  Stupid people will continue to get swindled.  Smart people will protect their money.

HORSE follows stud with stud/8.  Arguably, razz is also a stud game.

Because you're already working on pre-existing software (the Grid Poker software) that is Windows-based, and while in the middle of this, dudes with guns from the Nevada Gaming Commission suddenly raid you, you flee the country, and want to get the site back up in a matter of days rather than months?

About 90% of desktop users.

No, you're allowed to.  The other player has to affirmatively demand you show.  And it's often considered rude, and in some circumstances, extremely rude, so most people don't do it without good cause.

But many sites show them in the hand histories, because there's no mechanism to make the demand and it's a lot easier to collude online.

You have the right to demand to see at showdown (at least traditionally).  The last player to bet or raise has to show first, and can demand the loser show.  It's generally considered rude to do this excessively or sometimes at all, since it's basically an implicit accusation of collusion or cheating.

Also, in some games like jacks or better (does anyone even play that any more), you have to keep your "openers" to show you had the right to even play the hand.

Folded, no, but most sites' hand histories have all hole cards if it went to showdown and you were in it at the time.  PokerStars does, for instance.

But you'll run Flash?  Yeah, I know in theory it runs in its own little sandbox, but in practice, there's a new exploit every week or so to run arbitrary code and that's just the ones they announce.  I don't see how in practice it's actually any more secure.  I'm sure if HTML5 (what SwC will probably use for the web client eventually) becomes as popular as Flash, it will be just as exploitable.

If you can't trust a source enough to run software that it issues, you shouldn't even be visiting its website much less running active content like Flash/scripts/etc.

Most of these concerns can be allayed somewhat by running it on a virtual machine anyway.  Even that isn't perfect, but unless there's malware specifically designed to claw its way out of a virtual machine, you should be safe enough.  (And if SwC itself wants to steal your money, they'd do it on the server side and none of your precautions would be worth shit anyway.)

MAJOR issue.  Some stud games have ZERO bring-in.  In tournaments, this is especially bad because players with few chips or who just get bored will sit out and never blind off.  I was in a razz tournament where this happened.

Here's an example.

(Oops, posted this to the old SwC thread instead of here.)

Just noticed something really neat under Options.  You can customize the bet slider so that each button does an action of your choice, both for preflop and postflop decisions.  So you could have the first button bet 40% of the pot, the second 60%, etc.  Set a button to "max" for the all-in that some people want.

Just click Options anywhere (under File-->Options or wherever such as the button on the table window), and "Bet Slider."

Some other little things that impress me include 4-color deck by default and tournament breaks on the 55.  I don't know why 4-color decks aren't the default on every site, since that's always the first thing I change on any poker site, and it's nice to be able to take a break even while playing multiple tournaments with different start times, since that always pissed me off on the previous site.


I hope these itty bitty freerolls stick around for a while.  They're pretty fun and may introduce people to these new games without the pressure of playing for high stakes at first, because many of the fans of the bad*i style games are high stakes players.  Nobody wants to lose their shirt to learn a game.

Also if krillrolls are ever introduced again, it might be neat to see some of them in oddball formats or dealer's choice.  Most of the people who qualify for these things in the first place are veterans and can probably stand to pick up a new game or two if they don't know it.

ETA:  eliminating a multipost.

There should be a mix of slow, normal, turbo and super turbo type games.  Some people like fast tournaments and don't like sitting around 8 hours for a 5 chip tournament.  Some people want hours of play for their money.

4 minutes is definitely turbo though.  I just played one of these (freeroll) and there was basically one hand at the final table.

Ongoing investigations are usually exempt from public records requirements.

So run it in a VM with nothing else on it.

Yes, it sucks they just have Windows now, but that's the bulk of people out there.  The other clients are not far behind and it's a workable interim solution.

What a load of hooey.  Fuck off, scammer.

That's because they aren't even really regulators.  They're just a barely plausible legal fig leaf to make what would otherwise be illegal pass legal muster enough not to get the people running the site arrested.  Sort of like the bullshit "Kahnawake Gaming Commission" that sat with its thumbs up its ass doing nothing while Absolute/UB ran a blatant scam for years.

Kill yourself.

In the interim, you could set up a VirtualBox machine and run it under that.  Works fine.

Okay.  On an old Mac 32 bit Intel machine, I just got VirtualBox to run the client and play a few hands of the 8 game mix as well as play one of the freerolls.  If there are instability issues, they aren't anywhere near as bad as with running it under Wine.

Specifically, I ran it in VirtualBox running XP Pro.

So I'd recommend that as a solution for anyone on Mac, at least for the moment.

No.

And I was premature saying it worked fine under CrossOver.  It has serious stability issues.  Trying it on VirtualBox now, and will report on my success/failure after I've got XP installed and the client running.