Rake-free ring games for 1 week (not sure if possible!)

I'd like to start by saying that I'd happily pick Donk4u or RUchamp to be godfather to my future children.

@swcpoker, please release hand histories so that we can independently verify the discrepancies.

I would also like an official statement from SWC as to whether they encouraged players to discovered this bug to keep quiet, thereby tacitly permitting them to exploit it and cheat other players.

Edmonton Oilers 3 @ 5 Anaheim Ducks

Chicago Blackhawks 5 @ 3 Pittsburgh Penguins

Anaheim Ducks  0 @ 3 San Jose Sharks

Washington Capitals 3 @ 0 Los Angeles Kings

New England Patriots 21 @ 25 Atlanta Falcons

Atlanta Hawks 108 @ 116 Houston Rockets

Dallas Mavericks 89 - 96 San Antonio Spurs

Milwaukee Bucks 107 @ 116 Toronto Raptors

Sacramento Kings 104 @ 115 Cleveland Cavaliers

Denver Nuggets 93 @ 109 San Antonio Spurs

Carolina Hurricanes 2 @ 4 Columbus Blue Jackets

Montreal Canadiens 3 @ 1 Minnesota Wild

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thanks

New York Rangers 4 @ 2 Columbus Blue Jackets

I may have been a little unfair and overly harsh in my criticism of SwC poker.  There are a lot of things that really need to be improved: hand history logs being the most critical. Of course some of the recent cutbacks really sucked for the players most affected by them.  However, even on SwC Poker 2.0, with new management and all, I've never had any issues with depositing/withdrawing and I've always been paid promptly and accurately.  I guess it speaks more to the sad state of online poker these days, but SwC is probably the only poker site where cashing in and out is a fast, smooth process.  During my recent nomadic wanderings around different poker sites, I've noticed that a lot of them have really confusing terms for collecting bonuses or qualifying for X promotion.  (E.g. In my recent trip to site XXXXX, 2 different live chat support staff didn't fully understand how their own site's tables starter promos actually worked or how the TS table lists were generated.) Moreover, SwC doesn't stonewall, delay, or discourage players from withdrawing their balances under hidden-TOS pretenses.  If there's nothing else that can be said about SwC, at the very least, they are pretty clear about how things work and player expectations are generally in line with site actions.

I will still hold SwC management to all the promises of bug fixes, software updates, and new clients that they've made over the past 1.5 years.  (Second plea for hand history fix.) The ridiculous delays are still unacceptable to me.  I am going to soften my stance on the return of the krillrolls or any new promos, because I do understand that as it stands now, these promos are simply not financially sustainable.  I hope that management realizes that the site has lost a lot of formerly loyal players in a large part because they haven't rolled out any improvements or kept any of their promises since 2.0 rolled out.  I am still pessimistic about their track record of making changes, but I do sincerely hope they make some positive ones, and do so very soon.

SealsWithClubs was hands down the best poker site I have ever been a part of.  Everything that I hoped a poker site would get right, version 1.0 did.  Because of the history, I had really high expectations for SwC 2.0, and admittedly am disappointed thus far.  However, even if the current SwC doesn't meet my somewhat lofty standards, it still holds the same respect for player funds as the previous version did (something that sadly cannot be said for many other poker sites).  Although the steady departure of players make me nervous, nothing that I've witnessed suggests that the site wouldn't be able to pay out all player balances at a moment's notice.

I hope the players and management can work together to turn the fortunes of this site around.  The BTC world still needs a SwC, and there's nothing about the site that is fundamentally unfixable.

Related note: Why is it so freakin difficult for Betcoin to just come out say and "yea, we fucked up, our bad, we won't make the same mistake again".  Why are they going through all of this trouble to delete posts, blame the victim, and to hide a colossal blunder that is obvious to pretty much everyone?  Just come out and admit the issue, address how things will be different, and try to do better.  Fact is that a player played a game on Betcoin's site where they should have won X dollars, and he didn't receive the full amount.  What is all this nonsense about moving on and keeping quiet?  When you deposit money into Betcoin and play one of their slots, are you playing with the expectation that if you were to win a jackpot, you would have create forum threads, sign NDAs, and take legal action to collect your winnings?

Umm, okay, you realize that in order for you to sue someone and collect judgement, that other person has to actually show up in court right?  Please explain to me why Betcoin, operating out of some shady island, is going to buy some economy class tickets, spend money on attorneys, and fly over to Murica to defend against a claim, when ya know...they could just not?  Even assuming that jason gets a default judgement in his favor because no one from Betcoin showed up, how in the world is he going to collect that money?

Do you think the US is going to send over some international task force to break down Betcoin's doors for civil litigation?  Trying to sue Betcoin is literally the most useless, pointless thing ever.  Like that course of action has 0 realistic merit. 

This is so retarded.  Please go and try to sue an entity that does not store their money in the United States and see how successful you are in collecting money.