Approval letter for SpinWiz from PokerStars copied from earlier in this thread:
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Thank you for contacting us. Your email was escalated to me as a member of the PokerStars Game Integrity team.
Seating scripts are typically permitted provided that they do not identify desirable tables using game information obtained outside the user's own play. As these software pieces are merely executing a series of commands, none of which involve any poker logic, the classification of these tools are similar to that of any other permitted macro or hotkey like program.
SpinWiz implicitly identifies desirable tables by assuming licensees are good regulars. Unless all licensees have played against all other licensees they are implicitly using game information obtained outside the user's own play.
SpinWiz is not only executing a series of Pokerstars registration commands. It is manipulating the registration queue by deliberately dribbling regulars into a pool of non-licensed recreational players, achieving a table-composition result impossible via the standard PokerStars interface.
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The same principle applies to SpinWiz, despite the inclusion of Spin and Go support, whereby it is known may cause other intricacies. In the same vein with more traditional regular seating scripts, the core behaviour itself would still be possible via communication between players and manual interaction with the lobby. The tool is simply making that process more efficient.
No, it would not be possible outside of this tool to somehow co-ordinate hundreds of players to manually register so as to dribble regulars into a sea of recreational players.
Pokerstars rationale reads as if it was written by a lawyer advocating for SpinWiz instead of a lawyer for Pokerstars missioned with minimising Pokerstars exposure to legal suit from a class action by allegedly defrauded recreational players claiming collusion between the Pokerstars site and VIP players!
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The Game Integrity Team is responsible for prohibiting third party programs that are deemed to offer an unfair advantage in gameplay. Seating scripts facilitate the game joining process but do not actually offer any advantage in gameplay itself. Therefore, I can confirm SpinWiz is permitted for use here at PokerStars.
Pokerstars, how about enforcing this statement of mission: Ban SpinWiz because it does in fact offer an unfair advantage to licensees who get to sit with a pool of recreational players materially different to that which is obtainable by simply automating the Spin&Go registration process. Further SpinWiz users can deliberately sit collusively with 2 regulars and 1 recreational player if they so choose.
Pokerstars is either ignorant or in collusion to deceptively defraud recreational customers. Earlier in the thread an email from Pokerstars claimed players in Spin&Go's are sat with other players randomnly. Yet SpinWiz in fact ensures recreational players only are sat randomnly while SpinWiz controls a non-random highly-structured group of specially privileged regulars.
Pokerstars, either tell all your customers the whole truth or ban SpinWiz!