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Originally Posted by nutgrabber
Absolutely ridiculous how many people are arguing that notecaddy should be banned whilst clearly having no idea whatsoever about it.
It's simply a tool that allows players to tweak the presentation of the same stats that everyone (who uses a hud) has access to. It does not offer advice on what plays to make, in real time or otherwise.
Please Pokerstars, don't listen to the droolers demanding that all software be indiscriminately banned, it's completely absurd.
On an additional note, it's pathetic to target notecaddy when seat scripting is running rife and doing far more damage to the games.
I agree (*). This, along with proposing banning of HEM/PT and HUDs makes me believe that the real purpose is dumbing down everything, in the name of "leveling the playing field", because "the games got tougher".
As an example, let's get soccer, another zero-sum game. Today's soccer is tougher than the soccer played in 1900, but did we even hear at least once something like
bohoho! Soccer got tougher in the last years! Let's ban coaching, let's destroy all the theory books, let's kill Pep, Mourinho and Ancelotti!? I guess not. The same goes for poker. Yes, poker got more competitive, because more and more serious people are interested in this game.
Variance in poker is larger once the playing field evens, but the same is in the final stages of the World Cup, right? One failure by Romero to stop a shot meant that Argentina lost the Final and Germany went home with the title. Small details...
The playing field is level, my dears. Everybody who wants can invest in his poker education. The amount for investment is as small or as large as one wants or affords. So, what's the fuss about it? Yes, the fish don't know about these programs, but they don't care about them; otherwise they would buy them. They don't care about them, because all they care is to have a little fun in the sun. For them, there is no difference if they lose 30$ at poker or they spend the same amount for a night out. Technically, the 30$ are lost money.
Why should we ban HUDs? They are very useful and no person in their right mind can track all the 50 other villains at their 6 tables of FR (of course, the number varies with the # of tables they play and if the games are FR/6max/HU. I have hands on a guy, he may, or may not have hands on me. All it's fair.
In conclusion, my opinion is that HEM/PT, HUD and NoteCaddy should not be banned. There is no real reason to.
(*) - The only software I used, from those mentioned in this topic, are HEM and NoteCaddy, so I will talk strictly about them.