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Originally Posted by kingofcool
What is it about spin n go attracting such scumbags?
Sorry for my upcoming venting...
HU is a major part of spin gameplay, so a lot of former HU regs have switched over due to the similarity of the required skillsets. As you likely know, there's a long history of intricate policies and testing of the boundaries of the poker room rules in the HUSNG community in order to get as much advantage over non-regs as possible, incl. Sharkystrator queues and cartels /
divisions.
Strong HU play involves focusing on the opponent and exploiting their leaks relentlessly. Especially at HU hypers and spins, equilibrium play isn't enough beat the rake by a comfortable margin, so exploits have to be found when facing a non-reg, to compensate for the rake that one pays when battling regs inevitably. So it's no surprise that HU regs are more Machiavellian on average than STT and MTT regs, though they normally obey the rules too.
Also, it was skier_5's GTO chart advisor for HU hypers that prompted
the revision of Stars' third-party software rules at the end of 2015.
Another catalyst for that revision was Spinwiz, a tool that was creating Sharkystrator-like queues for the spin lobby for its users, making the seating non-random and biased against non-users (mostly recreational) and thus defying Stars' intention for randomness.
Both tools, with their then vast functionalities, had been legal at the time of their creation, which hinted to Stars that the old rules had been too weak. (Skier's tool has been remade into a database for strictly offline use to comply with the new rules. Spinwiz is dead, but as we've seen above, at less secure sites like Party, queueing still exists
)
Fwiw, there's very little HU in Spin & Go Max (HU is reached only a few hands before the forced all-ins, if ever), so I have hope for that game and also KO SNGs being relatively cheater-free for a few years. That said, both have enormous rake as a huge shortcoming.
Last edited by coon74; 12-01-2018 at 12:19 PM.