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Bitcoin-only online poker site SealsWithClubs (SwC ) has been shut down due to what was described as technical issue after the home of its founder Bryan Micon was raided at gunpoint by the police, which is why we decided to ask our readers, “Were the Seals and Clubs’ technical issue and police operation related?”

It would be easy to connect the raid with the technical issues that took down SwC around the same time and most of our readers seemed to agree as 77% voted “Yes” and only 23% voted, “No.”

Prior to the raid, Seals With Club users complained a series of technical problems that made the room unavailable on Feb 11, then after few days Bryan Micon’s video came out, describing how police raided his home on the same date; served with a warrant from the Nevada Gambling Commission accusing him of violating Nevada Revised Statutes NRS 463.750(10b) and the operation of an interactive gaming site without all required licenses, but wasn’t formally charged with any crime.

Micon said that the timing might be suspicious but he hasn’t been able to make a connection between the two occurrences himself. “It’s true, there have been some irregularities with our server that coincided exactly with the time that my front door was broken down, and it seems too unlikely for these things to not be connected. Right now, however, it’s simply impossible to understand what exactly happened,” Micon said.