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Originally Posted by pies01
There are 2 issues re: spinwiz
1) collusion risk : hopefully any fair minded person who reads my prior post now realises that this is not practical using this software
2) unfair sitting of recreational players: there has been a lot of debate in this area. Often generated by people blind to the fact that seat scripting is used in all of poker. Pokerstars have made their decision restating that Seat scripting software is legal.
1) Software that lets you select a named player or stable of players for you to seat does aid collusion. If you can't see that, even if sometimes some other reg sneaks in to mess up the arrangement then pffft
2) Stars are silent in this PDF on it. That is not reasserting that it is OK, at least not actively. Seating software and scanning software in 6max and full ring is a disgrace that if casual players knew about would deter many, sooner or later some bright spark anti gambling documentary maker will do a proper job on it and damage poker greatly, it's not like they don't know who to call for the funding. Heads Up is already eating itself as a format so seating there whilst barking for ages will soon become a matter of historical interest.
You are right though, with the exception of zoom seat scripting has become the norm for regs - tell the recs and potential new players about it, plus the data abuse behind much of the player targeting and you lose many of the recs and put off potential new players.
Seating scripts and scanner software based upon dubious data is a PR disaster waiting to happen in an environment where active opponents (maybe smarting from someone picking up prostitutes in their casino for a documentary) could and would exploit mercilessly.
If you are interested in online poker back in the US then seating script software is an issue to be dealt with now, otherwise it is a gift to the opponents bigger than some 19 year old getting a cocktail and a gamble in a casino but blocked by wsop.com