They accused me of owning 3 accounts, claiming there was a deposit connection (BTC transactions).

I love Bitcoin's blockchain and transparency. Since I played fair, I asked them for proof (BTC transaction hashes).
They even promised to show it to the community

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/02/04/eETlg.png

They never did. Instead, they quickly banned me and erased all messages to cover it up...

You can also check for yourself – try finding any messages about this on the official SWC Telegram group. They deleted everything  

To understand the issue in more detail read my story on the medium.

Oh I read it for sure mate, sorry no disrespect meant, well done on the write up, beats 95% of the scam accusations I see weekly lol.

I just don't see there could be any recourse in an isolated case like this myself - sites like this operate in a gray area - where are they? Who are they? who knows?

THey appear to allow USA connections without VPN? What does that say?



This... ^^^ thanks @alani123.  

Oh, SWC is mentioned after a long time, I have to jump on that for sure.
First of all, I am not a fan of SWC because they didn't take action against several people colluding at tables, which I reported and nothing was done. Though, I have always gotten my money, that's for sure.
Also I have to add, I have 3 accounts on SWC, which never gave me any trouble. I have sent money between these accounts using the transfer tool and used the same IP address. What I haven't done is playing on the same table or any other cheating stuff. I straight up had new accounts because some people dodged my original account (scared or something) and I still wanted to play them. 

Anyway, to the case here. Not siding with anybody but to be honest because I am disgusted about the collusion and other stuff that is going on at SWC. OP might have done it, or he didn't we don't know. I am sure they can check it. What would be interesting is to see is the hand history of this table because the 3 accounts mentioned ( gd1990, MichaelDE and caroline93 ) must have been involved in some stuff at least. Looking at the history would paint a better picture for sure!
Also, to be fair, it sounds highly suspicious when 3 high roller accounts register the same day and play at the same table, come on. SWC is such a tiny player pool, mostly there are like 150 people online of which maybe 20-25 are actually playing. What day ever did 3 people register and play big on the same day? That really sounds highly suspicious to me!
Accumulation a 360000 chips stack, which is 900 big blinds with a 100bb buyin is also rare, not impossible, but rare. But having 2 more "buddies" at the table that play the sucker of course makes it more likely.
What the community would need to see are the hands in question that made the session

Like I said, not siding with OP or SWC. I have been on the site for many years, never had any issue with my multiple accounts because I never used them in a scammy way.

PS: about the article. On the update part on January 29th you write:

"The pattern of censorship continues. A community member tried to share this article in SWC-Poker’s Telegram group, asking legitimate questions about transparency. The result? Immediate ban. Here’s the conversation that led to the ban: "

It is obvious that this "community member" is you. Otherwise the post would not be green and would have the initials of the person on the left side, which means it's your own post in the tg software.  . SWC support already wrote that even on tg you were multi accounting to get a conversation about this going, and this post actually proves it. So yeah, looks a bit off tbh.

1. Mostly you can spot fresh accounts on their "vip"level. Both 3 accounts must have been "new seal".

3. Even the address you show can't be verified as the address you used to deposit (unless you have a screenshot of the swc cashier that shows the depo address).

4. Your money back maybe? We have seen countless scam accusation that ended up with the casino having done everything right and the accuser just made up a story to basically blackmail the site to get paid. Not saying that's what you do, but it is a possibility.

5. That's where also the problem lies. When people collude they mostly don't win their own money but that of others. Having a 3 man team gives you valuable card information and also the possibility to push opponents out of the pot. Know 4 more cards doesn't sound much but it is. You know possible nut flush blockers, blockers for sets, and so on and so on.
The only visible thing now that doesn't speak for collusion is the way these 3 accounts are seated. When I saw people colluding they always sat in a way so that they don't sit next to each other. Makes sense cause if you want to push someone out you would want to bet, victim calls, next alt raises, you raise, victim folds because too much action and reraiser behind folds.

6. they basically abandoned their presence here, and I doubt they will come back

The only thing right now that would help you is the hand history. If you did nothing wrong the hh would prove that. Alternatively you can try to bring this case to askgamblers or casinoguru or something. Not sure though if they handle poker site complaints.
Maybe ask swc to send you the history. This would be a big break if you did nothing wrong. Sure it's bad that as the accused you have to defend yourself but that's the situation right now and nobody here can do much about it unfortunately.

By the way, I just checked SWC and just 3 weeks ago the bad beat jackpot hit, after 2 years, aces full of kings lost against a royal flush.

To question 1: I always did that because I always felt it's highly suspicious if I play with somebody and suddenly 2 total newbie accounts join the table. SWC is a tiny site with almost nobody playing there. So it is hard to believe that 2 accounts just registered and immediately join this table. That's why it always looks strange when this happens and I for myself often quite the game right at that moment. And what do you know, the players left right after.
So yeah, it is very strange when 3 newbies join the same table with accounts from that day. At a site with 120-150 players on average that's a big standout.

About swc and their telegram group. Trust me I got kicked out several times as well because they didn't like me speaking up about strange things such as the mentioned collusion, players that don't get chat banned even though they insult everybody, the very strange previous jackpot hit where almost all newbie accounts "won" the 6.5 btc jackpot (nobody ever has seen these players before -> maybe inside job) and other stuff. You say one little thing Dave or one of the other clowns don't like and they ban you instantly.
Email support is just as bad. I got screwed over by the guy that referred me (he actually hat a real website and was one of swc's partners) because he stopped paying my rake back but they kept paying him for my action. They just ignored my case and that was the point when i decided to finally leave this shitty place.

Unfortunately there aren't many. Nothing I liked at least. I played a ggpoker for a while cause they also take btc and usdt and so on, but it gets converted into usd and of course there is KYC and so on. Also the withdrawal can take some time and you need to provide "significant action" before you can withdraw, basically a rollover.
Just never play at nitrobetting or whatever they call themselves now. Full of collusion, bots, huge rake and low player numbers.

Thank you so much @alani123 for the information about this thread! 🙏
✅ I posted there too - we will see.

They know damn sure what they were doing when they made their ANN thread self moderated.
They also deleted all of my posts , they don't like when people speak out against them. Absolute garbage site with true scammers in the background. About their bitcointalk account, not much we can do. You could create a flag and look for support (you have mine). This site need to get kicked out of here with sufficient warnings.

Sorry for your loss mate, I also remember having a bad experience with a similar platform, same accusation and no much explanation. They had an announcement thread and since it was new without many reviews on it, I took the risk and paid for it.
Seems like what you have here is almost the same, but I could never understand why spending much money on developing everything, marketing and servers just to end up ruining their reputation, then ending up dead because of that.