Online Poker: Your Guide to Playing Online Poker... by Doyle Brunson - Page 2

Alex/Mugaaz · #11 09-06-2005, 07:47 PM

You are smart enough to see why you are wrong here.

Jbrochu · #12 09-06-2005, 08:03 PM

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Except that live is more fun than online, and by putting mandatory webcams in everybody's house you eliminate a major advantage of online play...no nead to dress, groom, shower, etc...play in your bathrobe or nothing at all on Saturday morning if you like and no one's the wiser.

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I tend to agree with you on all counts. However, the people I could envision signing up for a site that made Webcam's mandatory are the same people who are currently worried about poker bots, collusion, same player playing multiple ID's in the same tourney, etc... These people might be willing to give up some of the perks you mention in order to feel safer.

Although Webcams would not totally mitigate these issues, they could go a long way toward making it more difficult - to the point where if you're involved in that type of stuff you would just as soon do it at a non-Webcam site.

Aytumious · #13 09-07-2005, 01:43 AM

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As technology progresses and video communication becomes the norm, non-video feed pokerrooms would seem antiquated. It's really not farfetched at all, provided we are talking about the same timeframe of 10-20 years.

Hellmouth · #14 09-07-2005, 12:55 PM

yeah, until people start patching into the feed with video "Showing" them playing.

Greg

seahawktd · #15 09-07-2005, 07:10 PM

I dont know about this webcam poker thing. Imagine all the disgusting things that you would see. Pervs showing their unit, big fat ugly women in the nude, big fat ugly men in the nude, people fornicating, people picking their nose, etc etc. I say no thanks to this madness

SNOWBALL138 · #16 09-07-2005, 07:15 PM

One word: Multitabling

How useful would picking up tells be then?

Alex/Mugaaz · #17 09-08-2005, 04:39 AM

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You are smart enough to see why you are wrong here.

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As technology progresses and video communication becomes the norm, non-video feed pokerrooms would seem antiquated. It's really not farfetched at all, provided we are talking about the same timeframe of 10-20 years.

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A) The technology required is irrelevant. Not all people would WANT to be be filmed while playing! Nor will all people purchase said technology.

B) Poker sites would never make webcams manadatory (you know why). The only possibility would be rooms which have it as an option. These may be unpopular because you would need enough video space to display up to 9 other people, and it would have to be large enough to be meaningful.

This is similar to the idea of "everyone will have a video phone". No,no they wont.

SNOWBALL138 · #18 09-08-2005, 06:33 AM

How much fun would online poker be in you had to listen to the children of some fishy gambler crying in the background?
Just thinking about it is hurting my winrate.

octop · #19 09-09-2005, 02:04 AM

Thats my point
Why would I want to be filmed? That is why it's stupid- I didnt say it wasn't possible.

Jbrochu · #20 09-09-2005, 11:40 AM

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Why would I want to be filmed?

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Clearly, you wouldn't want to be filmed and you wouldn't play at a site that required Webcams. I still maintain that a company could possibly carve a niche (meaning a small slice of the market catering to people with a different opinion than you) business, although I do think it's unlikely.

I already offered the reasons why somebody might want to be filmed: fear of bots, fear of collusion, fear of one person playing multiple accounts in the same tournament.