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Originally Posted by MX210
I'd surely be moving to a different site where at least I can feel like I have more of a level playing field.
lol what?
He's in the USA, so probably not quite aware of how dominant Stars is these days, and how bot-infested the former competitors have become.
But what he means, I think - it's like datamining. If you play for reasonable stakes, you can be certain several of your opponents have lots of datamined hands on you. Not a huge deal, but people don't like it - and it's annoying that neither are they prevented or you are not allowed to level the playing field.
Ideally Stars would ban datamining effectively. Instead they prefer to only remove mucked cards from datamined hand history files.
Now, Stars is "planning to proceed with" a raft of new bans of a similar nature, where it is inconceivable they could be accurately policed and enforced. So now the honest player will be playing with only simple charts and a simple hud, while the less scrupulous might print a complex chart that takes up several sheets of A4. Or use a tablet to refer to very complex charts.