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Originally Posted by kmpk
How about someone comes up with a program that easily allows analysis of a hand history database? It's all well and good saying that studies have been done and everything is above board but for a worried player who doesn't understand statistics or who cannot fully utilize tracking programs something simple whereby they can just hit a button and then compare their numbers to other peoples results.
Database programs can do a lot of this already, and you rarely hear from those who use these programs about it being rigged (well, ok some make claims then never offer proof until $25,000 in arranged marriage fees are paid or something).
I do agree that they are not for everyone and while I think most players do not really care how their AK hands do compared to other random people they do not know, they would have fun looking at their all in stats (in terms of wins and losses) broken down by hand type.
I wouldn't even say this is helpful from a prove it aint rigged perspective, more from a user fun perspective where they can see their AA hand went 32-7 or something. If any of the rooms offer such reports or graphs that would be great, I am sure many players (new and experienced) would love to see this basic information. I know I would.
Of course this might teach some people of the true power of the A6o hands they think are the nuts...
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Originally Posted by kmpk
It would benefit all poker players, and all potential players, if sites were made accountable. I cannot see how this could be an issue for anyone involved in poker.
You are looking at this a bit backwards. Nobody would say they are against more accountability, but the vast majority of users do not care about this because they have faith in the bigger sites.
Would you like 5 trained health inspectors in every McDonalds every day? Sure, why not, more accountability is good. Do they matter when it comes to choosing to buy a burger to nearly every customer? Not really.
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Originally Posted by kmpk
I think that the best solution would be for all the sites to release all the hands six months or so after they are played. There are so many games happening at once now that it is inconcievable to think that the sites can properly police everything. A benefit of this would be that it would be easy to compare statistics between sites, any anomaly would surely show up then.
This would benefit companies that would use this free data and package it (by game players etc) to others who would use this for their benefit without ever playing the hands themselves.
This blatant and easy form of datamining IS a concern for many players.
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Originally Posted by kmpk
What I don't understand is the responses from some of the regular contributors to this thread. No one deserves to be insulted for expressing their opinions, however right or wrong they are. Monteroy has already admitted he gets his kicks from trolling this thread, never actually contributing anything of worth. Why bother?
As the poker saying goes - "it depends."
Many of my posts actually include useful information questions and advice, but it is based on who I am posting toward. You are more naive to the issues than paranoid so my response is different in tone than a guy who screams about it being the Russian mafia or something, and I am always polite to the pro Lizard People crowd.
All the best.
Last edited by Monteroy; 11-18-2009 at 11:42 PM.