steadyeddie
Newbie
 Offline
Activity: 49
Merit: 0
|
 |
February 20, 2015, 10:37:20 AM |
|
Just looked into both of them Betcoin has a fucking retarded tournament structure. Literally every tournament allows you to rebuy/register up to 2 hours in, meaning there isn't anything small you can play on for an hour or two. Nitro looks nice but there is a very low playerbase. Yeah, they both still have some way to go but I am sure they will pick up the pace now that Seals has gone belly up |
|
|
|
|
WhatTheGox
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 812
Merit: 1000
|
|
February 20, 2015, 01:24:05 PM |
|
Effective immediately, SealsWithClubs will cease providing Bitcoin poker and will be shutting down all operations except to allow player funds to be withdrawn for a limited period of time. SealsWithClubs is, and has been, completely solvent up to this point in operations.
WE URGE ALL PLAYERS TO WITHDRAW THEIR FUNDS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. PLAYERS SHOULD CEASE ALL ACTIVITY TO THEIR ACCOUNT DEPOSIT ADDRESSSES NOW.
On approximately February 11th, 2015, several events occurred related to operational security that we consider to indicate SealsWithClubs now operates in a perpetual state of jeopardy. We will not divulge details publically, but they may come to light if any team member chooses to come forward of their own volition at a later date. All player funds and data remain intact and the issue was not software related. We do not believe any of our Bitcoin wallets used in operations to be compromised or lost. However, this event has made the majority vote of the ownership and team agree that shutting down operation best move for safety and security purposes.
SealsWithClubs Chairman, Bryan Micon, would like to carry forward the business with his own team (currently settling in Antigua) but the majority ownership cannot guarantee the future security, solvency, and integrity of that operation because there will be no administrative oversight carried over from SealsWithClubs. Members of the SealsWithClubs team and ownership are not ones to lightly endorse anything, not even our own longstanding trustworthy team members, which is why nobody ever makes a sole decision. This dynamic has saved the business several times throughout the years. With Micon operating on his own with his own team, the checks and balances we have kept in place against one another internally for 3+ years will have been removed.
As the majority ownership & team will not go forward with operations but Micon is still in a position to do so, it makes the most sense to hand off assets to Micon in order to enable him to
Someone should just buy seals off him and make it secure, was thinking it had something to do with pokerstars. This is strange news though. |
|
|
|
|
|
Dissonance
|
|
February 20, 2015, 01:37:07 PM |
|
I'd like to offer a brief moment of silence for SWC and thank the DEVS for honoring withdrawals and providing a great service over the years. I look forward to Seals 2.0 under Micon's leadership.
On another topic where is everyone going to be playing until Seals 2.0 is up ?
|
|
|
|
|
|
tonino
|
|
February 20, 2015, 01:44:53 PM |
|
I'd like to offer a brief moment of silence for SWC and thank the DEVS for honoring withdrawals and providing a great service over the years. I look forward to Seals 2.0 under Micon's leadership.
I second that, thanks to the seals team |
|
|
|
|
hopenotlate
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 3906
Merit: 1286
|
|
February 20, 2015, 02:26:33 PM |
|
I'd like to offer a brief moment of silence for SWC and thank the DEVS for honoring withdrawals and providing a great service over the years. I look forward to Seals 2.0 under Micon's leadership.
I second that, thanks to the seals team Same here. Rare example in crypto world. |
|
EARNBET | ██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██ | ███████▄▄███████████
████▄██████████████████
██▄▀▀███████████████▀▀███
█▄████████████████████████
▄▄████████▀▀▀▀▀████████▄▄██
███████████████████████████
█████████▌████▀████████████
███████████████████████████
▀▀███████▄▄▄▄▄█████████▀▀██
█▀█████████████████████▀██
██▀▄▄███████████████▄▄███
████▀██████████████████
███████▀▀███████████ | | ██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██ |
▄▄▄
▄▄▄███████▐███▌███████▄▄▄
█████████████████████████
▀████▄▄▄███████▄▄▄████▀
█████████████████████
▐███████████████████▌
███████████████████
███████████████████
▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
|
King of The Castle
$200,000 in prizes | ██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██ |
62.5% |
RAKEBACK
BONUS |
|
|
|
donk4u
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 889
Merit: 1000
|
|
February 20, 2015, 02:32:06 PM |
|
I guess not going to drop that nasty software all over our faces? bummer Looks like the govt was hot on Micons heels and he was looking at serious jail time for him to move to a non extradite country like Antigua. What else is there to say but thanks Micon for trying to provide players a place to play poker . Ran the site like a boss. Seems like Micon shares the same status as bodog calvin ayre it really is a shame. I wonder if this will cause a domino effect. The problem with seals was that obviously Micon was the owner I don't care what anyone says no way he would have to go on the run. The other problem was running a poker site albeit for bitcoins while living on usa soil. Making poker a crime is a crime considering people are allowed to blow their life savings on the lottery so hypocritcal.
Anyway thanks Micon you are the best. Hopefully you can get a site licensed in Antigua but understandable if can't. Wishing micon all the best thanks for paying everyone out and thanks for giving us a great site like Seals to play on.
|
|
|
|
|
Beano52
Newbie
Offline
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
|
|
February 20, 2015, 02:34:31 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
donk4u
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 889
Merit: 1000
|
|
February 20, 2015, 02:42:52 PM |
|
Player notes coming soon
|
|
|
|
|
|
sherbyspark
|
|
February 20, 2015, 02:45:43 PM |
|
I always used to think that Micon used to own Seals. Too bad its shutting down now.
|
|
|
|
|
TippingPoint
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 905
Merit: 1000
|
|
February 20, 2015, 03:32:42 PM |
|
Seals with Clubs was honest throughout their long operation. Our government has gone bad.
|
|
|
|
|
darkmule
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1005
|
|
February 20, 2015, 04:03:37 PM |
|
What about all those people with balances on bet?
|
|
|
|
|
Sefton
Member
Offline
Activity: 65
Merit: 10
|
|
February 20, 2015, 04:08:27 PM |
|
Seals with Clubs was honest throughout their long operation. Our government has gone bad.
How do you know it was the government that was the cause? I haven't seen any solid reason or explanation yet but glad they didn't run off with funds. |
|
|
|
|
Sicilian
Member
Offline
Activity: 81
Merit: 10
|
|
February 20, 2015, 04:13:20 PM |
|
I don't know if or when it will ever happen, but I am really looking forward to the next Donkdown Radio.
|
|
|
|
|
donk4u
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 889
Merit: 1000
|
|
February 20, 2015, 04:53:22 PM |
|
I don't know if or when it will ever happen, but I am really looking forward to the next Donkdown Radio.
donkdown defo canceled. I read somewhere will make arrangements for ender to ship any funds to xdev and will payout with regard to funds on bet |
|
|
|
|
|
Dissonance
|
|
February 20, 2015, 04:55:53 PM |
|
Player notes coming soon
LOL |
|
|
|
|
|
RockMinerOops
|
|
February 20, 2015, 05:03:46 PM |
|
What about people who were actively playiong when site went down? I was able to cashout my balance that I did not have on a table, but the 800 chips that WERE on tables were not sent to me. Emailed hdev and no reply.
|
|
|
|
|
cAPSLOCK
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 4256
Merit: 7037
Tired...
|
|
February 20, 2015, 05:44:00 PM |
|
Player notes coming soon
/thread |
|
|
|
|
|
BitCoinPokerBro
|
|
February 20, 2015, 05:51:19 PM |
|
In light of this sad news betcoin will most likely receive a huge influx of seals loyalist considering it is the second biggest poker provider.
|
|
|
|
|
|
RockMinerOops
|
|
February 20, 2015, 05:54:46 PM |
|
If nyone plans to join betcoin, message me. I can get you 10% back on sports bets and casino losses, and 10% back rakeback by using my affiliate, paid daily. Have to use my link though.
|
|
|
|
|
donk4u
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 889
Merit: 1000
|
|
February 20, 2015, 05:57:06 PM |
|
What about people who were actively playiong when site went down? I was able to cashout my balance that I did not have on a table, but the 800 chips that WERE on tables were not sent to me. Emailed hdev and no reply.
Went to good cause. Micon currently using those chips for spin and goes on pokerstars |
|
|
|
|
|
