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Originally Posted by wannabe2700
It becomes public information in a showdown. Chess players also get profit if they get to use the same opening trap multiple times. But it's not really possible anymore in classical games due to databases. That doesn't mean it's a bad thing to have public databases of games. It's just another way to work on your game.
You can already study population tendencies in poker as long as you have been dealt a hand. So the only difference to buying hand histories is time. It takes like a year of playing to get accurate population results. I don't really see a big ethical difference.
Just wow.
So I raise you pre, you flat in the blinds, board comes ten high rainbow. You don't get how having bought ten million hands that you haven't played and worked out, through no effort of your own, that I might, say, overplay an overpair in this spot, and that might be a bit of an advantage?
You also don't get how that is different to working out the best move to play as White on move 6 against the Najdorf? And that you can work that out, both without knowing that I play the Najdorf, but also without even having a single game in your database? And that the best move is completely independent of what I might do?