NEW IDEA for ONLINE POKER CARD ROOMS

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I had an idea that I'm sure a few others have thought about at some point or another in thier online poker lifetime. I sent the idea to the online poker room I ussually play at (Poker Stars) and they notified me that they recieved the idea and would send it to their development team. However, I have not heard back from them...

I was wondering what some of my fellow online poker players would think about the idea so here it goes...

In most online play I've seen, the hole cards that an individual is dealt is immediately shown face up on the screen; the thought I had was to allow the players to decide if they want their hole cards dealt face down first. This would allow the players to observe the action around the table before deciding what their own actions would be. Another part of I thought would be cool was if the other players around the table would be able to see a status bar of all the other players which would display whether or not each individual had seen his or her hole cards yet. That way if someone really wanted to go blind all in or something, they could do it and the other players would know he had truly seen his cards or not...

Any thoughts?