for those that use Poker Tracker et al.

[Miklosik]

you may find this article interesting.
http://poker.gamingsupermarket.com/news/1994/poker-data-mining-outlawed

[lucks00]

This site is advertising other sites so you can't put it up right?

Lol, anyways its interesting but I just think people will find a way around it. And Isildur1 played on another site right? But another network banning it lol...I don't think a lot of poker sites will ban it tho....

[DJHarmon]

i don't use any extraneous software to play...............am i at a disadvantage??

[fritzson]

i don't use any extraneous software to play...............am i at a disadvantage??

You can still knock them out, just change styles and cards... and even them will be confused. :P

[whatwouldjimbodo]

datamining has been banned on other sites for a while now

[Snoggler]

This is the first page of Mik's link regarding the topic of thread. And something I have been trying to say for couple years:

Poker data mining has been a controversial topic over recent weeks and is seems that it played a significant role in taking down Isildur1. Now one of the largest of all poker networks Microgaming is outlawing it from all of its online poker sites and there is speculation that other poker networks will follow Microgaming’s lead.



In an announcement made yesterday, Microgaming stated that with immediate effect they will stop storing game histories of players on players’ computers and they will make it impossible to download bulk player histories.

Microgaming claims that by downloading histories and analysing them with readily available poker software tools such as Poker Tracker and Hold’em Manager a player achieved a significant advantage over players who do not practice this. As it is normally the serious and professional players who use data mining and the recreational players that do not, the overall effect is that recreational players are exploited and eventually become disillusioned with the game and leave it behind.

Microgaming hopes to create a flat playing field where players win and lose according to their poker abilities and skills rather than their ability to use commercial software to analyse other players’ modus operandi of poker.

No doubt the developers of online poker software tools will be extremely unhappy about this move. They have put considerable effort into the development of these sophisticated packages which sell for hundreds of dollars. For instance, Poker Tracker works with Hold’em and Omaha. It grabs poker histories that are written to the player’s computer by the poker site; it analyses and stores the hands in a database; and allows you to replay them. There are various add-ons such as Table Tracker which allows the user to select the best table to play on by tracking all major poker sites 24/7

At least now some place's are finally seeing that. And explain how utter garbage calls some really tight players. Yes there is a disadvantage if you dont buy the product and use to cheat with info like that.

[Survivor777]

At least now some place's are finally seeing that. And explain how utter garbage calls some really tight players. Yes there is a disadvantage if you dont buy the product and use to cheat with info like that.

I certainly agree! All sites, and for sure Merge Gaming, needs to stop the use of these programs !!!

[EgonOlsen]

nice. :)