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Originally Posted by Mateo94
I mentioned this earlier I like the idea as IPoker has this the down side is that you are fragmenting the player pool. I mean just look at the thread it is a 50/50 split on what people want so that's the kinda pool you are looking at on a post COS stars. Good point tho.
Segregation of the player pool doesn't work that well in a lot of ways. It didn't work out well for Party Poker and they were forced to revert the decision.
Somewhere like Pokerstars might have a large enough field that they can segregate it without worry but I still think it's concerning to do.
If I was given the choice between playing without a HUD and with a pool of HUD-less players (including recreational players), and playing with a large group of 24 tabling HUD-using nits, I'd be choosing the HUD-less player pool all day every day.
I remember prior to Black Friday everyone kept discussing HUD's in online poker, and it truly segregated the forum with a lot of people being both for and against the use of HUD's. Back then I wasn't against HUD's at all, but given how much software has changed (like note-caddy) is scary. Knowing that if mathematically I check/fold too many flops in 3bet pots, and knowing that there's people which are shown a badge for that making me easily exploitable is... scary. It's different if someone sits down away from the table and analyzes your play to the point where they can figure out what you're doing too infrequently or frequently, but to have that information in real time without crunching numbers yourself is ruining poker.
Then again, I don't know if banning HUD's will suddenly make the games any different. I can imagine people will continue playing their own style, I can imagine the games being a little softer since they can't see what you are or aren't doing.
At the same time though I don't think HUD's are the biggest issues we're currently facing. I think seating scripts and table camping are some of the bigger issues. I miss playing prior to Black Friday, as table camping wasn't as abundant and games ran in higher numbers at all stakes. Now days you see 200nl regulars sitting out the moment a fish sits out.
If I sat down with some obscure number like 53.6bb's on a table, and watched as people flooded in to play, and I constantly kept clicking on sitting out, I could guarantee the games would barely be running. I think that's a bigger issue than HUD's, but I will say that my HUD usage is minimal unlike others.