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Originally Posted by DarkMattersMan
LOL. Nice trolling here. Cool analogy too.
It's basically the same as saying to a new player 'Oh, btw, your opponents at the table, well, they automatically know how much you are up or down, how many hands you have played lifetime. How likely you are to raise in each position, how likely you are to fold to a 3bet, how long you tank when betting certain spots, the hand ranges you play, how often you c bet the turn and river, how often you play your button, sb, bb, whether you defend those spots, oh, also, like how aggressive you are, how much you like to voluntarily put your chips into the pot, how often you lead the flop, in their terms this is known as 'donk bet' whether you like to float flops and turns, I could go on sir, but, well theres a starter for you. And the cool thing is bud is that these guys, well they have all this information nicely displayed and logged automatically in real time. So basically bud, good luck'
'Oh, and cash games, you dont need to worry about finding a table, just sit and they will come to you, in a hurry'
YA, this is really going to get new players joining up to play.
You clearly misunderstand HUDs. Datamining is a completely different issue - supporting the existence of HUDs doesn't mean that anyone you haven't played before has any idea how you play except based on the information you give off (stack size/screen name/avatar/VIP status/number of tables/country tells). FWIW I have pretty much never had enough hands on a rec to effectively use turn floating stats.
Also, seat scripting is something completely different too. I'm against seat scripting because it automates part of the skill involved in the game. It reduces the amount of skill involved whereas the existence of HUDs increases it.
Finally, while we're talking about things which would scare recs/new players off, why don't we tell them everything about the true nature of the game? "Yeah, so you might've seen in
Rounders,
Casino Royale or whatever that it's a game of people, but that's not really all that true and nearly everyone remotely competent at the game understands it in terms of mathematics". "Yeah, so you might win in the short run and think you're really good at poker but because you're new, you almost certainly aren't and it's merely variance deluding you - in fact, you'd be better off playing table games".