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Originally Posted by ledn378
I definitely prefer this to what Revolution did to help the fish
Revolution was forced to reverse it's decision to implement Fair Play yet WPN still doesn't show mucked cards. Not only are the showing of mucked cards important for reasons I mentioned above, they are hugely important in controlling collusion. In a casino there is little chance that players are communicating with each other on skype as they play. On the internet, though, this is a real concern. Unless WPN has the very best security in the world, the mucking of cards creates a colluders paradise. To try to blindly mimic live play on the internet is grossly naive.
Recently I've been playing a lot of DON's on various sites. There's a situation that has been coming up occasionally that is kind of strange. On the bubble when there is an extremely low stack a few people limp in. Now that's perfectly normal in order to get the small stack out. But what isn't normal is that once in awhile one of the limpers goes all in on the flop with absolutely nothing. The other limpers have to fold assuming the person who just shoved has a monster. The short stack ends up quadrupling up when he would have otherwise lost the game. There is absolutely no conceivable benefit to the person who shoved other than to save the short stack.
If I can see the mucked cards I can clearly see what happened and make a note on that player as a possible colluder. But if the mucked cards aren't shown then the possible colluder can make a clean getaway almost every time. I only use the DONs as an example but in actuality both cash games and all forms of sitngos become vulnerable to collusion when the mucked cards aren't shown. I'd be more than a little surprised if there wasn't a fair amount of collusion thriving on the network right now.