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Originally Posted by IhateJJ
Yesterday evening on Full Tilt Poker there were 255 Holdem tables open at 10/20 and higher, with exactly one player sitting at each table. There were exactly zero tables running with more than one player. Most of these tables were heads up tables.
(I started a thread last night to discuss this, but it was deleted. I guess for the good of the poker ecology.)
This shows the current system is clearly broken.
This situation was bound to result from recent trends:
- more player education
- better tools (HUDs etc)
- much wider use of tools
- average experience of players increasing
- lower fish/shark ratio
Essentially the games have become much tougher and edges thinner. Today the difference between 95%+ of players at any BI is less than the rake. The pool of money donated by poor play has shrunk. Previously that pool was shared between the sites and the winning players. Now the pool is shrinking but the sites are still taking the same cut so the winners are suffering.
As these trends have progressed the sharks, equipped with third party software, have become increasingly efficient at identifying and devouring the fish. The inevitable result is that the sites are desperately trying to protect the fish so that the average new player will last more than the couple of months they do today. They realise that if they don't then their businesses will die. I understand what motivates them but would prefer that they adopt different strategies.
Basically huds are killing the game. Ban them.
Agree w/: ban huds (or allow annual sn changes/anonymous tables), reduce rake, limit #tables (6?), don't give choice of tables.