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Originally Posted by pies01
1) divisions and all the threads that have been set up are incredibly transparent.
2) pokerstars allow seat scripts, for husngs and all other games so they control the seating
3) refer to point 1
1. XFlixx (Pokerstars online pro) exclaims at 2 hours 34 minutes on his twitch stream late June recording, as Nefirmative diplomatically justified divisions in the chat, "I don't think recreational players would like that (divisions/cartels). If I was a recreational player I wouldn't like that. I'd stop playing (HUSNGs). Maybe we should tell Pokerstars. They can't like that. etc..." for about twenty minutes.
Inference: Few recreational player know or regs outside of HUSNGs and when they find out they are outraged! Wide-spread ignorance is not the same as Pokerstars ensuring transparent fairness in the games. Duh.
2. Pokerstars dilemma is that they can't take full control of seating as they undoubtedly should without banning all the obviously shady-looking division group-seating scripts as recreationals would have a fit if Pokerstars themselves did it the division way but if Pokerstars got rid of divisions the regs would have a fit so Pokerstars doesn't know what the hell to do. That is not the same as saying they "approve."
Inference: Pokerstars has plausible deniability by looking the other way while third party software includes some shady features that benefit regs to the detriment of fair play.
Unfortunately for Pokerstars this is what chess programmers call the horizon effect: in many lines say the programmed player is about to lose their Queen, the most powerful piece. So if the look ahead function is say, 6 half-moves, the program is incentivized to find some stalling moves that push the loss of the Queen over the horizon as if the Queen loss won't occur.
Similarly Pokerstars short-term uses plausible deniability: "seating scripts are within the ToS. We are not aware of anything to be concerned about. Blah, blah, blah..." but long term they are scared like crazy.
The weird thing about you and others that support the status quo is every now and then there are little admissions in your baloney and then like a HUSNG reg having lost your all-in, you get a new stack, reboot with the same old unchanged story as if you've admitted nothing. It is really funny but a terrible debating style.