Bitcoin Poker Rooms

[michellee]

Really?

I haven't been following the BTC poker scene for a while, so I would have thought that SwC would still be the best alternative out of everyone here.

I wouldn't be comfortable with using NitrogenPoker either for the issues that they had... And Bovada has recently announced the end of mBTC denominations. This is a sticky situation indeed.

Yep man, SwC is almost dead (at least if we compare it with the times like 1 year ago). So for now the best poker rooms is pokerstars net, but here we have one problem: it doesn't accept Bitcoin 

Whatever, you can try it by yourself, maybe amount of people which still their will be enough for you

It is a proof that fiat based poker site is still popular compared to crypto poker sites. Here in my country, there are many poker players who play in various sites and the number of active players is much more better than what I can see in SWC. I'm not really sure why, I have no idea why the traffic of crypto poker sites is not able to increase or at least compete with fiat poker site.

Maybe that is because the number of crypto poker sites is not many if we compare with poker sites based on fiat as people already know much about the poker site use fiat. They consider that crypto is a new thing for them and it needs time before they can fully understand how to use crypto to bet and search for reputable crypto poker sites. But with the growth of crypto itself can attract many crypto casinos to have poker games on their site to attract more people who use fiat to try crypto.

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[johhnyUA]

It is a proof that fiat based poker site is still popular compared to crypto poker sites.

The same we can say about any type of crypto activity compared to offline counterpart. Maybe except drug selling 

I have no idea why the traffic of crypto poker sites is not able to increase or at least compete with fiat poker site.

Traffic could increase, but there is no such poker crypto sites. And this is weird. There a lot of slots and dice plus crypto books, but there is no good poker lounge.

[tokeweed]

Really?

I haven't been following the BTC poker scene for a while, so I would have thought that SwC would still be the best alternative out of everyone here.

I wouldn't be comfortable with using NitrogenPoker either for the issues that they had... And Bovada has recently announced the end of mBTC denominations. This is a sticky situation indeed.

Yep man, SwC is almost dead (at least if we compare it with the times like 1 year ago). So for now the best poker rooms is pokerstars net, but here we have one problem: it doesn't accept Bitcoin 

Whatever, you can try it by yourself, maybe amount of people which still their will be enough for you

It is a proof that fiat based poker site is still popular compared to crypto poker sites. Here in my country, there are many poker players who play in various sites and the number of active players is much more better than what I can see in SWC. I'm not really sure why, I have no idea why the traffic of crypto poker sites is not able to increase or at least compete with fiat poker site.

Lack of incentives, like a good RB program and a nice rewards store.  Lack of a marketing plan.  Lack of planning by poker site owners that it’s best to build a poker economy by establishing the micro stakes games first and let players move up and build the small stakes games from there and so on.  It goes back to having a good RB program and a rewards store.

[johhnyUA]

Lack of incentives, like a good RB program and a nice rewards store.  Lack of a marketing plan.  Lack of planning by poker site owners that it’s best to build a poker economy by establishing the micro stakes games first and let players move up and build the small stakes games from there and so on.  It goes back to having a good RB program and a rewards store.

All of this just because of people who bought SwC from previous owners just interested to make money from site. They bought it and they will monetize it untill it die. The main problem is that poker site it isn't house or land - you can't just get money from it forever until you die. Any site need all what you're telling above. Or it will die, sooner or later. This what happened to SwC.

[batang_bitcoin]

Maybe that is because the number of crypto poker sites is not many if we compare with poker sites based on fiat as people already know much about the poker site use fiat. They consider that crypto is a new thing for them and it needs time before they can fully understand how to use crypto to bet and search for reputable crypto poker sites. But with the growth of crypto itself can attract many crypto casinos to have poker games on their site to attract more people who use fiat to try crypto.

It's that many are still liking the traditional online poker. But soon, there will be an enormous growth in the crypto poker scene. When they get to ride the hype and be in with being cool with the usage of crypto for poker, many will jump into this ship.
It's just a matter of time that we'll see a lot of new crypto poker sites that are going to be popular, only a few we know and there's not that much tables and players are in it.

[michellee]

Maybe that is because the number of crypto poker sites is not many if we compare with poker sites based on fiat as people already know much about the poker site use fiat. They consider that crypto is a new thing for them and it needs time before they can fully understand how to use crypto to bet and search for reputable crypto poker sites. But with the growth of crypto itself can attract many crypto casinos to have poker games on their site to attract more people who use fiat to try crypto.

It's that many are still liking the traditional online poker. But soon, there will be an enormous growth in the crypto poker scene. When they get to ride the hype and be in with being cool with the usage of crypto for poker, many will jump into this ship.
It's just a matter of time that we'll see a lot of new crypto poker sites that are going to be popular, only a few we know and there's not that much tables and players are in it.

Indeed. It is about a matter of time for crypto poker sites to become popular among poker players as it still needs a developer's development. Of course, the promotion factor will be necessary to introduce that the crypto poker games are available for them in crypto gambling. When crypto poker games can become famous, maybe that will be the time for the traditional fiat online poker players to move to crypto and feel the new experience of using crypto to play poker games.

[michellee]

As for now in my opinion it unlikely that everyone around the world are aware of Bitcoin existence already. You know, some people always believe that the level of their awareness are same or should be the same with other people around the world which is not so.

Some people do not become aware of bitcoin existence because they still do not have an awareness of the technology or what happens to the internet. So that makes those people does not know anything about bitcoin. But it makes the young people who always use the internet see the bitcoin promotion from many media. Young people are actively using the internet so that makes them have a big intention to try or search for what they do not know and somehow, some of them are involved in the gambling industry by playing many gambling games.

[Bagaji]

As for now in my opinion it unlikely that everyone around the world are aware of Bitcoin existence already. You know, some people always believe that the level of their awareness are same or should be the same with other people around the world which is not so.

Some people do not become aware of bitcoin existence because they still do not have an awareness of the technology or what happens to the internet. So that makes those people does not know anything about bitcoin. But it makes the young people who always use the internet see the bitcoin promotion from many media. Young people are actively using the internet so that makes them have a big intention to try or search for what they do not know and somehow, some of them are involved in the gambling industry by playing many gambling games.

Knowing about Bitcoin is one thing and believe in it that is something worth investing is another thing entirely. Young people who actually make use of the internet must have seen one promotion relating to Bitcoin or Altcoins but in might not be on a good note because there are so many scam site advertising their services in Bitcoin and Altcoins related stuff and that is in a bad light. We should equally be reminded that it is not only people that comprise the whole world.

[South Park]

Maybe that is because the number of crypto poker sites is not many if we compare with poker sites based on fiat as people already know much about the poker site use fiat. They consider that crypto is a new thing for them and it needs time before they can fully understand how to use crypto to bet and search for reputable crypto poker sites. But with the growth of crypto itself can attract many crypto casinos to have poker games on their site to attract more people who use fiat to try crypto.

It's that many are still liking the traditional online poker. But soon, there will be an enormous growth in the crypto poker scene. When they get to ride the hype and be in with being cool with the usage of crypto for poker, many will jump into this ship.
It's just a matter of time that we'll see a lot of new crypto poker sites that are going to be popular, only a few we know and there's not that much tables and players are in it.

I find concerning the lack of popularity of poker in the market of cryptocurrencies, after all it is obvious that gambling is a very good match for a decentralized form of money as we can gamble with some level of privacy that is simply impossible to obtain with fiat, and at the same time we can see how big and powerful some casinos in this market have grown, however poker just remains stagnant, I wonder if this is because of the nature of the game, since you need other people to play against or it is because no site has been able to reach critical mass and become so popular that it becomes the place to go when it comes to playing poker with cryptocurrencies.

[michellee]

As for now in my opinion it unlikely that everyone around the world are aware of Bitcoin existence already. You know, some people always believe that the level of their awareness are same or should be the same with other people around the world which is not so.

Some people do not become aware of bitcoin existence because they still do not have an awareness of the technology or what happens to the internet. So that makes those people does not know anything about bitcoin. But it makes the young people who always use the internet see the bitcoin promotion from many media. Young people are actively using the internet so that makes them have a big intention to try or search for what they do not know and somehow, some of them are involved in the gambling industry by playing many gambling games.

Knowing about Bitcoin is one thing and believe in it that is something worth investing is another thing entirely. Young people who actually make use of the internet must have seen one promotion relating to Bitcoin or Altcoins but in might not be on a good note because there are so many scam site advertising their services in Bitcoin and Altcoins related stuff and that is in a bad light. We should equally be reminded that it is not only people that comprise the whole world.

If they stop searching for other information about bitcoin, they will not find the truth but they will miss the opportunities to have a new investment that may be worth their lives in the future. Those people need to find out more details about bitcoin to think that bitcoin can be their way to have a new source of income besides their main works. Who knows, after they know bitcoin and try to invest or do other things related to bitcoin, their mind will change and they will not think that bitcoin is a scam. But if that is about playing crypto poker, they should stay away from that because that will not help them make money.

[dustboy]

Lack of incentives, like a good RB program and a nice rewards store.  Lack of a marketing plan.  Lack of planning by poker site owners that it’s best to build a poker economy by establishing the micro stakes games first and let players move up and build the small stakes games from there and so on.  It goes back to having a good RB program and a rewards store.

All of this just because of people who bought SwC from previous owners just interested to make money from site. They bought it and they will monetize it untill it die. The main problem is that poker site it isn't house or land - you can't just get money from it forever until you die. Any site need all what you're telling above. Or it will die, sooner or later. This what happened to SwC.

Perhaps the current owner is not having much money to do marketing or promotion to make swc become bigger than before. It was one of the most active bitcoin poker site but now it looks like a new site with no good plan to survive and to get better/bigger. Yes it seems that it will die sooner unless there is a big change in the management who can manage the site better than what they have at the moment.

[batang_bitcoin]

Maybe that is because the number of crypto poker sites is not many if we compare with poker sites based on fiat as people already know much about the poker site use fiat. They consider that crypto is a new thing for them and it needs time before they can fully understand how to use crypto to bet and search for reputable crypto poker sites. But with the growth of crypto itself can attract many crypto casinos to have poker games on their site to attract more people who use fiat to try crypto.

It's that many are still liking the traditional online poker. But soon, there will be an enormous growth in the crypto poker scene. When they get to ride the hype and be in with being cool with the usage of crypto for poker, many will jump into this ship.
It's just a matter of time that we'll see a lot of new crypto poker sites that are going to be popular, only a few we know and there's not that much tables and players are in it.

I find concerning the lack of popularity of poker in the market of cryptocurrencies, after all it is obvious that gambling is a very good match for a decentralized form of money as we can gamble with some level of privacy that is simply impossible to obtain with fiat, and at the same time we can see how big and powerful some casinos in this market have grown, however poker just remains stagnant, I wonder if this is because of the nature of the game, since you need other people to play against or it is because no site has been able to reach critical mass and become so popular that it becomes the place to go when it comes to playing poker with cryptocurrencies.

It is because the crypto gambling market is more popular with casino games and as well as sports betting. Soon we might see the popularity of crypto poker increase overtime.
It's just normal to have it seen like that because many are still in the fiat poker and they're all loving to be there. But once they've started to get involved with crypto, soon they might also be focusing in crypto poker after knowing that there are tables available for them.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Now in this pandemic situation, I don't feel like going to casinos because I'm already used to playing online casinos, and it's just as enjoyable. Virtual gambling establishments are a great alternative to land-based clubs. The rapid development of online gambling is the result of technological advances and the widespread prohibition of gambling. And besides, no matter where you are, at any time, you can get together with your friends and play on the Real Money Online Casinos. I play in the casino because we play slot machines or roulette when we get tired of playing poker. The variety of games is excellent.

To tell the truth, you may be promoting the site or not, but I would go for the safest casinos, which have an excellent reputation and I know that they would respond to possible problems that may arise, I know many friends who have tried their luck In online casinos that are not so well known and have ended up scammed, I am not saying that the site is a scammer, but for poker I like the version that stake.com has a lot, especially video poker, of course at stake.com you get variety of games that are introducing new ones every time

[Lucasgabd]

It is a proof that fiat based poker site is still popular compared to crypto poker sites. Here in my country, there are many poker players who play in various sites and the number of active players is much more better than what I can see in SWC. I'm not really sure why, I have no idea why the traffic of crypto poker sites is not able to increase or at least compete with fiat poker site.

this should probably be true since most of the players/people know how to deal with fiat systems better than with crypto systems
even though crypto is an interesting system it's still quite neach
it didn't even reach >10% penetration on the world as a technology yet

[DarkDays]

It is a proof that fiat based poker site is still popular compared to crypto poker sites.

The same we can say about any type of crypto activity compared to offline counterpart. Maybe except drug selling 

I have no idea why the traffic of crypto poker sites is not able to increase or at least compete with fiat poker site.

Traffic could increase, but there is no such poker crypto sites. And this is weird. There a lot of slots and dice plus crypto books, but there is no good poker lounge.

ChipStars is a nice place for poker, rather relaxing.

Their payout as far as I tried and know of is on time and never had any issues. At the beginning they used to advertise for free where people could join the rooms for free and get the reward, it might have changed slightly now but still something to check out for sure

[traderethereum]

Now in this pandemic situation, I don't feel like going to casinos because I'm already used to playing online casinos, and it's just as enjoyable. Virtual gambling establishments are a great alternative to land-based clubs. The rapid development of online gambling is the result of technological advances and the widespread prohibition of gambling. And besides, no matter where you are, at any time, you can get together with your friends and play on the Real Money Online Casinos. I play in the casino because we play slot machines or roulette when we get tired of playing poker. The variety of games is excellent.

To tell the truth, you may be promoting the site or not, but I would go for the safest casinos, which have an excellent reputation and I know that they would respond to possible problems that may arise, I know many friends who have tried their luck In online casinos that are not so well known and have ended up scammed, I am not saying that the site is a scammer, but for poker I like the version that stake.com has a lot, especially video poker, of course at stake.com you get variety of games that are introducing new ones every time

That is what members will do to prevent scams that can happen at any time.
They will more prefer to play safety with the casino that has excellent reputations instead of trying or testing the new sites with small or big money because that will not guarantee them have a good experience.
But if some people still want to test the new site because they are curious, that will be up to them but they need to be responsible with their money.

[Lucasgabd]

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ChipStars is a nice place for poker, rather relaxing.

Their payout as far as I tried and know of is on time and never had any issues. At the beginning they used to advertise for free where people could join the rooms for free and get the reward, it might have changed slightly now but still something to check out for sure

everest poker had a similar system where you could join a free tournament and win a small prize like 2-10 usd, then you could join the next tier on the tournaments like 2-5 usd entry and win a bigger prize, maybe 2x-10x the entry amount,
I've heard of people who build up from there and now live off playing poker only

would be interesting to see that with crypto options as well

[wxa7115]

Really?

I haven't been following the BTC poker scene for a while, so I would have thought that SwC would still be the best alternative out of everyone here.

I wouldn't be comfortable with using NitrogenPoker either for the issues that they had... And Bovada has recently announced the end of mBTC denominations. This is a sticky situation indeed.

Yep man, SwC is almost dead (at least if we compare it with the times like 1 year ago). So for now the best poker rooms is pokerstars net, but here we have one problem: it doesn't accept Bitcoin 

Whatever, you can try it by yourself, maybe amount of people which still their will be enough for you

It is a proof that fiat based poker site is still popular compared to crypto poker sites. Here in my country, there are many poker players who play in various sites and the number of active players is much more better than what I can see in SWC. I'm not really sure why, I have no idea why the traffic of crypto poker sites is not able to increase or at least compete with fiat poker site.

This is one of the things I have wondered for a long time, the gambling industry is incredibly successful in this market and we know this is true as there are many casinos that are incredibly popular and that are getting a lot of profits.

However poker has not gained the popularity that I have been expecting, maybe it is because poker it is not as popular as it was back then when it began to be aired with regularity on sport networks, or maybe the kind of people that is attracted to the world of cryptocurrencies do not have too much of a preference for a game like poker, but whatever the case, something is happening that is limiting the growth of poker as a popular game in the market of cryptocurrencies.

[johhnyUA]

everest poker had a similar system where you could join a free tournament and win a small prize like 2-10 usd, then you could join the next tier on the tournaments like 2-5 usd entry and win a bigger prize, maybe 2x-10x the entry amount,
I've heard of people who build up from there and now live off playing poker only

would be interesting to see that with crypto options as well

Every poker site has this feature (freerolls). The main problem is if the site doesn't have much players to play. So there will be not much sense in freerolls, because tiers above (with bigger buy in) will be empty or close to it. This what is SwC looks like now (and semi-empty cash tables)

[Lucasgabd]

everest poker had a similar system where you could join a free tournament and win a small prize like 2-10 usd, then you could join the next tier on the tournaments like 2-5 usd entry and win a bigger prize, maybe 2x-10x the entry amount,
I've heard of people who build up from there and now live off playing poker only

would be interesting to see that with crypto options as well

Every poker site has this feature (freerolls). The main problem is if the site doesn't have much players to play. So there will be not much sense in freerolls, because tiers above (with bigger buy in) will be empty or close to it. This what is SwC looks like now (and semi-empty cash tables)

makes sense
would be interesting to see a comparison of amount of players on poker sites
probably crypto-only websites are way more niche than the big ones like everest and pokerstars, right?