Party Coming Out Against Poker Tracker?

[LondonBroil]

Why are so many of you against PT, PV, and GT+? Is it because you haven't gotten it yet and your jealous of other people who have it?

[AncientPC]

Why would they be jealous of others having it? Except for PT, PV and GT+ are free.

[PoorLawyer]

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In under an hour I can have PT and GT+/PV setup and working with no trace whatsoever if it being installed or running on the computer I play poker with. For anyone with the means this will be trivial to overcome.

This will help in some aspects where those not really 'serious' about playing online won't worry about getting around such a limitation, thus, not having PT running. For those that make a profit or are serious players then there will be little impact. To be honest, the players that will get around it are not the ones you are really looking to confrant at the tables anyway.

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maybe they will have a freeroll tourney with all the money they confiscate.

[Jeffage]

Lol yea. I hope if they ban it and people try to get around it, they confiscate every cent in their account when they catch them through other means. Right now, it's not against the rules...but if it's banned and people continue to use it, I don't want to hear ANY crying when accounts are frozen (though I'm sure we'd see a few threads a day about it).

Jeff

[Reef]

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if they find a way to counteract PT during gameplay I'll be exceptionally happy as then we might be rid of GT+ and PV.

People might actually have to make reads again.

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the thought of having to pay attention again scares me

[J.R.]

it allows less frequent playing, marginal note-taking poeples to play better, i.e. win more and lose less, hastening the onset of the alleged "tragedy of the commons" problem that online poker faces

[LondonBroil]

Could you elaborate on this "tragedy of the commons"?

[Piers]

Actions speak better than words. Whatever some nameless Party support Guy says (or their Affiliate T&C says), in practise they seem to be doing what they can to encourage high volume professionals. Maybe they will change track at some point, we will just have to see what happens.

They clearly appear to be engaged in some sort of big auditing and think in, maybe restructuring, before going public, so who knows what they end up doing.

[Reef]

party is just shooting itself in the foot

[spamuell]

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Party Coming Out Against Poker Tracker?

It looks like a guy was concerned whether Party was worried about the use of Poker Tracker and this was their response:


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Stop your scaremongering. Pat's response in that thread on the PT forums:

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The support people at Party are clueless, they just know how to spout the line from the hand book dealing with outside programs. They don't know the difference between Poker Tracker and any another program. The main reason they put the hand histories on the hard drive was because of all the PT users clogging up their mail servers with hand history requests. I worked directly with their developers to get the format to a point that it would work with PT.

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I'm not too worried.