Re: Re: [ba-poker] Ethics of using PokerTracker

["Uncle Roger" <rogerc22(deleted the rest)>]

I don't see any ethical problem.  If you play a game by its rules, you're 
playing it ethically.  The online sites clearly contemplate that people will 
be using software like Poker Tracker.  I corresponded once  about this with 
customer support at  one of the sites, and the person who answered defended 
the practice, analogizing it to a player taking notes in a live game.

My problem is  I don't think that downloading poker software, figuring it 
out, and  using it during play is likely to be much fun. I'd rather just 
play poker.

To each their  own.  If others like it, then fine for them. But  I wish 
there were a choice among sites, with some of them trying to make it less 
easy to do computerized hand tracking.

Maybe there's some benefit, such as preventing cheating, in letting players 
harvest hundreds of hand histories. But if the reason is to promote hand 
tracking, that takes some of the fun out of it for players like me.

I  haven't used   hand tracking software yet.  When online, I play mainly in 
sit-and-go tourneys.  I'm hoping that  the software is less useful in 
sit-and-goes because of the swings in the number of players sitting at the 
table.  If I'm wrong about that, please tell me.

I guess I will get around to buying the software sooner or later. Who knows, 
maybe it will turn out to be fun to use in some way I haven't foreseen.  I 
doubt it, though.

Roger