Yes, that's right. Even without any capital, we can play in freeroll tournaments, which still offer excitement that I think is just as exciting as other paid tournaments. Even freeroll tournaments always have a large number of participants, with at least 40 people always participating. In fact, there are usually more than 50 participants. I rarely miss at least one freeroll per day because they're quite fun. And at Swc, we can even play with a small capital, just like in... No-Rake micro stakes

500 chips is around $50-$60, it's not much money. Withdrawals are processed manually, I guess the limit is there so support isn't wasting time processing pennies. Having said that, the 500 chip limit has been there at least 3 years so it probably wouldn't be a bad idea for them to lower it.
If you're really desperate to get 200 chips off the site sell them in chat. Or even here. Just check with reputable players so you don't get scammed.

I personally don't care about the 500 limit, but you are giving an example now right as we speak with your 10 chips buyin private tourney. If someone wants to participate in a tourney with 10 chips buyin, but doesn't want to deposit half an mbtc, there is no way to do it other than selling it via chat and what not, as you said.

As for the manual processing of withdrawals, I don't know if that is true, I guess so since withdrawals often take time. But that begs the question why they are not automated. That should be one of the easiest things to do, especially since they charge withdrawal fees.

There are not many platforms processing all withdrawals manually, not that I know of.

Seals doesn't charge withdrawal fees, just the blockchain tx fee.

There are free rolls that you can join. I can spot them around 9:00 PM and 12:20 AM forum time. So, it's fine if you don't have chips or deposit yet because it's free for all and you get to join the table and have an understanding how games would go. It's fun when you test them and it's one of the practice that you can get busied with because if you become better. The games are going to consume more than an hour because other poker players too won't just allow you to win and sometimes they also get emotional. There's also a prize for 10 tickets which you can use in joining other tables that has the same price of entering.

I think Sunday is a great day to start the SWC tournament, and I don't mind buy in the 10 chip. If you can't reach me via PM, you can contact me via my Telegram channel.
I can't wait to start the tournament with my fellow SWC players and other forum members who want to join it's sure to be a lot of fun.

I am not sure how long it will take for that kind of deposit to be credited. I only know of Bitcoin as long as it gets 1 confirmation. While waiting for your deposit, try to get back later and check the free rolls which will cost you 0 ticket and it's free for everybody. And as you wait, you can contact the support if your transaction somehow through sideshift was already done and not yet credited.

It probably depends on the token and its confirmation time. I remember making a deposit through SideShift using LTC, and it didn't take more than 10 minutes for it to show up in my SwC account, so the delay is probably not from the side of SideShift or SwC, but it might be from the network of the token/coin you've used for the deposit. What token did you deposit? Is it confirmed in the blockchain?

Tournaments are fun, you should've joined during the BSOP event, that was too much fun, more tournaments every day, both satellites and GTD ones, you would have had a lot of fun. Most of us used to play a lot of those tournaments together. There are tournaments whole day every day, that's the beauty of SwC, never a dull moment unlike many other platforms where you might have cash tables at all times but no tournaments available every day.

Thank you for helping me, I just read that usually withdrawals will be processed in 4-24 hours, I understand because the process is done manually, playing at SwC poker, it's quite satisfying and doesn't take a long time, if you play you have to stand by there, I like it because I can focus more, hopefully we can meet at the same table

Sideshift converts your altcoins to BTC and then deposits that amount of BTC, so it will require 1 confirmation before it shows up in your account. How long that takes depends on the blockchain, could be 30 seconds or an hour.