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Originally Posted by :::grimReaper:::
^Updates on when the sites will be able to deal the first hand?
And what about 3rd party tracking sites?
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Originally Posted by Professionalpoker
At least one application has come in so the process has started.
This may surprise some of you, but PokerTracker does not support or endorse datamining. We are not in the datamining business; we are only in the personal tracking business. If we were in the datamining business then we would not have the support of so many online poker rooms that help us integrate our software with their hand histories, our policy is to follow the terms of service of every poker room we support. What our software performs is no different from what is already allowed in a live poker room, you are allowed to take notes on any observations you may have in the game you are playing in. PokerTracker is just an automated note taking tool; the software performs observations for you, nothing more than that. If we could, we would stop the use of datamined hand histories in our software, but ultimately we have no control over this issue, it is a problem that the sites themselves should - and can stop. Many of the poker rooms that we support have asked us how they can thwart datamining, we can assure you it has been on the poker industry's mind in recent times - we expect some changes to occur that will begin to thwart datamining on some sites within the upcoming year. With that said, there actually are poker networks supported by PokerTracker which permit the import of observed hand histories – but not datamining. When this is permitted by the poker network then PokerTracker complies with the intentions of the network, but we do not know of any network which allows their hand histories to be resold – or scraped when the user is not an active player regardless of observed hand history policies.
Now that our corporate position on datamining has been established, lets discuss the topic addressed in the quote above. Our reading of Nevada State Gaming Regulations is that any company that sells third party databases must apply for a gaming license in the great State of Nevada. This means that the sale of third party datamined hand histories will be illegal in Nevada without a gaming license once online poker has launched. We suspect this will keep out the datamining industry in Nevada, unless the Gaming Control Board decides to issue a license to a company. We have spoken with many of the service providers who have applied for a license, to date none of them have expressed support for dataming, therefore we think it is unlikely that a license will be given to a third party datamining site. To our knowledge, there are no datamining companies that have applied for a gaming license to date; can you please elaborate on which datamining company has submitted an application ProfessionalPoker? The application process is public; therefore it is ok to share this information (unless we misunderstood the intention of your post of course).
PS: We do not wish to derail this thread, therefore if you have any questions about the use of HUDs in the State of Nevada we will be happy to answer questions here -
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