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Originally Posted by dirty moose
So of the software isn't the reason the games are tough, why not just get rid of it then......?
I think I stated it pretty clearly, because they are not the reason the games are tough.
The games got dramatically tougher post black Friday. And as other markets continued to close throughout Europe and the rest of the world, you lose the fish you aren't going to go through all of the hassle to play on non-regulated sites. It's as simple as that.
I've played online and live for over 11 years. I've played at high stakes for many years, and I've produced countless training videos and coached hundreds of players. My best estimation is that maybe 3% of students know how to take advantage of the software they own. Most if the difficulty of the games is because less fish are present. And, like poker has done since the first poker book was printed, more information and study about it has improved the average regular.
Look, if we took an honest poll, which probably is never going to happen, and asked the people who were anti online poker software, if they mostly played live or not, I'd bet well over 90% would say that's their main game.
The honest and fair answer is that online poker is a completely different game than live poker. If you don't like online poker, don't play it. But software, and delving into deeper aspects of the game is part of online poker. Instead of trying to strangle and control the market, allow it within some common sense regulation, to continue to evolve how it has.
I would bet my entire roll and both my children's college funds that if we banned all poker software today, the games would not change one iota in terms of their difficulty.
What I would implore stars and other companies to do is to re-visit whatever decision they do make. Because if we removed it all, I'd like to see what people's opinion of it was a year after the ban. What would they blame next?
I'm neither ignorant nor naive, but thank you.