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Originally Posted by UnibetAndrew
It's an interesting idea but it might run into privacy problems still. Let's say you played a really unusual hand against someone, you could search this pseudonymous database and find all of this player's other hands. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a way to avoid this kind of problem while still making the database useful for people searching for bots/colluders.
I don't think this would be an issue as even if someone collected/anylised all the HH's for a single player, there is no way of determining if you are playing against that person at the tables, as long as that player makes frequent name changes. So this system would probably need to encourage frequent name-changing.
The only issue i can think of is that all the hands could be anylised for population tendancies. However, I think these wouldn't differ that much from site to site, so useful population tendencies are already available to the public.
The benefits are pretty significant as the poker community would feel alot more secure about bots/colluding/cheating, and even the riggies would feel better
The biggest community worry about anon sites is bots/colluders or worse, another potripper scandal, flying under the radar. 2+2 is incredibly useful for putting player's minds at ease about security issues but they need to have access to the data to do this.
This would also facilitate players anylising their own hands and play away from the table. I know this may not seem beneficial to unibet at face value, but I do think this is an integral part of the game for alot of players.