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Originally Posted by MCAChiTown
How does this become clear? I'd be surprised if development, if not use, had not already begun for non-commercial software. You just have to look at that global poker suite thread to realize this.
It seems to me like you're saying you would look past possible cheaters in the games to keep them as soft as possible. Makes sense until you find out you've been the victim of cheating.
MCAChiTown is 100% correct in my eyes. You should be able to download HH and review it. There are certain measures that need to be taken from a security point of view. Leaving out players names, but allowing downloadable HH is good for the ecosystem. Cheaters will get caught like this. Look at PotRipper back in the day. He was caught due to analyzing statistics laid out on a plot chart.
I guarantee there are several high stakes players with full blown HUDs and more. I have even seen a website where developers have been working on advanced software for GP.
You want to know why GP wouldn't be able to catch someone using HUDs, etc? It is because they won't be detected by the GP software. Anyone smart enough to create software to work with GP is smart enough to know that to stay undetected they would split the video output and read the output from a totally separate machine.
The best way to combat cheaters, software devs, etc on GP would be to allow downloadable HH, that way players can analyze play and report suspicious activity. GP can't do it on their own and if they don't try to help us help them then before you know it this site will be the breeding ground of cheating.
Edit: Also, look at Ignition. They have caught the most cheaters/rings, I have seen in all my years playing poker, just by allowing downloadable HH.
It is important for players to have some sort of access to downloadable HH.