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Should I assume that in your questions you forget to add a disclaimer that you created a software which we are talking about or you just happen to be very attached to it without a direct interest in your relationship?
It may help to add more value to the discussion if you add disclaimers if its the former.
As for your points, if you have several problems with bad teeth and one of them is particularly bad, its ok to fix the worst tooth first and then decide what to do with the other problems after it.
It's not all or nothing as you try to make it.
And if you didn't hear the advertisements, Spin & Go's are supposed to be random and they, unlike traditional poker tables, do not offer seat preferences to any players.
No I'm not associated with spin wiz except that I use it when playing spins (last month about 10% of my volume). Afaik, the use of the word "random" in spins, refers to prize pool not opponents (where the focus is on instant action).
I post in this thread when I see someone favouring 1 software type over another through their passionate but illogical reasons.
There are a few key categories of software (some of which can be used in multiple categories)
- Huds
- seating scripts
- HH (release during game or after Game)
- preflop charts/voice activation
- post flop advice during the hand aka bots
Any rule changes need to be fair across these categories and enforceable.
So ban seating scripts for all games including cash or none (btw, given the high rake and the anti bumhunting culture of HUSNGs, these scripts are far more defensible in husngs than cash games but I digress)
Ban all Huds or allow all.
Ban all HHs during a session or allow all (and in doing so allow data mining)
Ban all charts or none (that rule would be the most a abused via an app/2nd computer)
Ban all Software or none.
Keep in mind that if Pokerstars bans all software, apart from it being a high risk move from the dominant market leader, that means no browsing the net while waiting for a good hand, no music playing on iTunes) etc so I'm not sure if that is the sure fire way to bring back recs that quite a few people in this thread seem to believe.
So what should pokerstars do? Part of this will depend on their trajectory for tournaments and cash (what is their volume yoy when stripping out banned countries).
Should they make a high risk move that will likely create a whole bunch of unintended consequences and a real likelihood of reduced revenue or should they just focus on bots. It doesn't actually seem like a tough choice.