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Originally Posted by fountouris
Dear Pokerstars.
Notecaddy is a program keeping automatically the notes that a player want to keep, so the player don't has to type notes.
I want to keep action based notes and I use them on my game, as every other serious players does. By restricting Notecaddy in the way you say you just restrict the number of tables a serious player can play to maximum 4 (so he has to type this notes by hand)
If you do this, I have to quit playing Pokerstars (and Full tilt) and play on the other Poker rooms since no other poker room is restricting notecaddy.
Most high volume players wil do the same also.
About Flopzilla, Odds oracle , pokerstove etc :
nobody is using those tools during playing (except begginer players who don't know even know the basics about the game). Those tools are for studying and plan your own game away from the tables, so "prohibiting" the use of them at the tables changes nothing except that it just sounds stupid. No serious players exists that using those tools during his game, so you can proceed and prohibit the usage of those calculator tools during the game if you want to, nobody cares.
You have also to filter the answers from the two plus two threads, and see what the players who KNOW how to play the game , KNOW what those tools on discussion are and REALLYU PLAY the game on pokerstars is saying about the changes. On a public forum MR NOBODY , MR NOTHING and MR TROLL can express his opinions as happening until know here.
Most high volume REAL POKER PLAYERS don't even watch the forum often. They will learn about notecaddy restrictions just when you force them and then you will have an explosion of 50 pages here of regs quiting the room. Until now they don't even know that this thread exist that's why there are not a lot serious opinions and answers here.
I think you should inform the REAL pokerstars players DIRECLTY by sending the email to them and give them a QUESTIONAIRE to FILL where also their VIP status is appearing. If someone is used to be BRONZELEVEL or CHROME that means that he has no idea what this tool you discuss are, he has never used them and he can't express an opinion on the topic he just don't mind. You should send the questionaire to players starting from at minimum SILVER or GOLD VIP status, those are the players who know the game, make all the traffic in your games and the life of the poker room is depended on them.
It is not that we respect less CHROME or BRONZE level players that we Respect Supernova.
It is about that SOMEONE CAN'T EXPRESS AN OPINION ABOUT SOFTWARE TOOLS THAT HAS NEVER USED IN HIS LIFE, they DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY WORK and OBVIOUSLY they DON't CARE about the restriction. For example nobody in CHROME level is using advanced/professional Notecaddy notes and nobody cares if you restrict them and most of them they will not answer "I DON'T KNOW" . Many people LOVE talking about things they DON'T KNOW and want to BE REMOVED from the game thinking that can make the game easier for them to play and the will answer YES
You should also DON't care at all about what massive attacking forum TROLLS are saying here as what mr Nobody is saying here.
I am a real poker player and I explain to you , giving my advise for free that don't try to restrict notecaddy, the traffic in cash games will fall immidietelly and forever. Restricting using odd calculators during the game change nothing because no serious player need using them during the game, and looks ...funny , but you are can do it if you like.
Antonios Fountouris (Expert user of most of the software you are referring to and Cash game regular)
I spent some time to read some questions and here are my answers:
-Notecaddy
used in it's FULL POTENTIAL without any restriction is NOT violating any rules of the possible new prohibited software policy. Having notecaddy on the list of the programs could be restricted looks like a misunderstanding of someone of Pokerstars team that doesn't use or doesn't understands notecaddy, or maybe a personal misunderstanding of Pokerstars Steve.
-Leak Buster is a tool analysing your hole HM database and finds potential leaks. The software offers no advise we can use during your game and
there is no player in the world have ever used leak buster during playing because there is nothing there to see while playing. Having this on the list looks also funny and like a huge misunderstanding of what the functionallity of the program is
-Prohibiting odds calculator tools during play has no meaning , not only (as I wrote above) no serious player exists using them during the game and their functionallity is for self study away from the tables, but also because
somebody can have TWO computers . Even if it not usefull at all to run those programs during the game and only a begginer could do this trying to understand the very basics, even if you prohibit the usage ...is very easy for a begginer player who doesn't know the odds against his opponent range while he is holding AK to run Pokerstars in one computer Pokerstove to the second computer. Also it is very easy for a begginer to PRINT pokerstove results to a single page of paper and read it while playing. The same holds to the other caclulators ... Prohibiting these tools during play will not affect the game traffic (like if you restrict notecaddy) but it doesn't make any sence.
One more advise from me is that y
ou should have some of your team members trained on use of this software you reffered to and learn what it is, what it does and how to use it. You could contact members of HM team and ask for some training sessions. It could help you to understand better how those tools and in general how modern poker software work and finally HOW the product you offer (MODERN ONLINE POKER ) IS PREALLY PLAYED.
MODERN ONLINE POKER MEANS FULL POTENTIAL OF NOTECADDY. If you restrict anything on Notecaddy , we will not change the way we play online poker. We will change POKER ROOM.
If someone thinks that could restrict Notecaddy, it is just a misunderstanding or he is thinking that it is possible option to send online Poker back to the year 2000. If some of your team members don't know it yer ... then send a questionaire to your Supernova or SNE elite players and ask them what they think about Notecaddy.
If you need a trainer of how modern poker is played,
Alan Jackson for example is very good for this , you could ask him if he has time to train some of your team members, and of course it is vert easy to find more experts on the topic. ( Check
http://www.ajacksonpoker.com/)
And I repeat that if you want players feedback, stop asking forum TROLLS what they are thinking about and just create and send a questionaire to your players having a VIP status that shows that are using some of those programs , understand what those programs do and be able (having the knowledge) to express a usefull opinion.
Thanks
Last edited by fountouris; 06-13-2015 at 11:21 AM.