State of Bitcoin poker

[JasonXG]

Does anyone here have good poker expierence and is making profit? What sort of bank roll do you use ? What do you stake ? Is it better then simple coin flip or slots ?

[philiveyjr]

Does anyone here have good poker expierence and is making profit? What sort of bank roll do you use ? What do you stake ? Is it better then simple coin flip or slots ?

You should probably research more about the game before asking it. I have made decent profit playing poker , playing both tournaments and cash games. However not everyone makes money. Making money on cash games in harder.

Bank roll depends on you. However, advised to start small and slowly increase your bankroll. Definitely better than coin flips if you are good at it.

[SyGambler]

guys lets face it , bitcoin community in general is small then for sure bitcoin poker sites would be small too
bitcoin poker has a great future and I'm sure of that , but at the moment it's really hard to create a big poker sites that only deals with bitcoin
let's don't miss one of the greatest things that happened which is Bovada , now they are dealing with bitcoins and if they have a positive experience then there is a good chance that 888 and PS will do the same
if PS started to deal with BTC they may make a server that is 100% BTC

[zimmah]

It's funny because you expect most early Bitcoin adopters (and everyone who owns Bitcoin right now is still pretty much early adopter) to be quite smart.   

But when you see how many bit coiners believe martingale is a good strategy, and how few of them play poker or bet on sports and prever dice games, I really think they are just throwing money away.

If you gamble better to gamble 'safely'.     

Not that gambling is ever safe, but at least you can have better results with poker.

[DarkThrones]

Is it just me, or does it really appear as though bitcoin poker activity has slowed down quite a bit? I recall in the heyday of SWC, when essentially everyone played at the same place, and bitcoin was relatively new and undervalued, that SWC always seemed reasonably busy. By reasonably busy I'm guessing around 300 players logged in, give or take. Now players are spread across multiple sites, such that they may congregate on one site for an hour or so if there is a big tourney running, but otherwise this same, fairly static community has since dispersed their play across multiple sites such that rarely does a site have +300 players like SWC used to enjoy on a daily basis?

Is Betcoin an exception? I don't really play there so I don't know for sure. Last I logged in a couple weeks ago things were surprisingly slow. Was the bitcoin poker community better served when there was only one place to play? Or am I just nostalgic?

Bitcoin poker has always been a hard sell for people. Now everybody mainly dices or plays games of chance to where the only factor is luck. Plus you're right that there are many sites and people are spread out.