RE: [ba-poker] Ethical guidance needed

["Dave Horwitz" <dhorwitz(deleted the rest)>]

William Chen wrote:
> I will say that I frequently advise others how to play
> their hands online.  To me it's a question of what
> external resources are allowed by the sites.  
> 
> Currently any online player can purchase or share
> databases of millions of player hand histories.  Some of
> these come with clients that will run your particular
> hand against the range of UTG raising hands by your
> opponent for instance.  Players may run clients that help
> them track the exposed cards in stud.  It seems that
> online sites allow and even encourage use of these
> external resources, such as facilitating downloads of
> hundreds of hands histories via email.        
> 
> I feel I am just another external resource. Now, I don't
> think I'm nearly as effective as the tools I've
> mentioned, but if my friends and/or players I have some
> finanacial interest in want my opinion on a critical
> hand, they are welcome to it, caveat emptor and all.    
> 
> Seriously, it's up to the sites to set policy on this.
>  Many sites do have "anti-bot" policies, I suppose a bot
> is the ultimate in "external aids" if we take it to its
> logical conclusion.  There are other questions that
> should be addressed, like whether it's okay for me to
> just log on and play on my friend's account (certainly if
> this is allowed, any form of advice I might give should
> be allowed) either because their computer has crashed or
> to help earn a bonus.  I have actually asked various
> sites about this and their response has been mixed.      

This last part is based on the assumption that your
advice would be used OR (mutually exclusive) the player
would rely solely on themself. 

-Quick

(amazing... I thought the singular of "themselves" would be
"themself" but the spell/grammer checker won't let me type
it. even inside " ". I guess it's himself or herself and
they did away with "themself".  I thought that word would
be *particularly* appropriate here)