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

[Hubert Chen <hubert(deleted the rest)>]

Do people have an opinion on PokerTracker.com vs www.poker-edge.com?

Short summary of architecture differences:

PokerTracker.com is a thinly veiled, packaged MS Access SQL database(you
can't write arbitrary queries against it afaik). You buy it as software it
for $55. Has support for a wider variety of sites, including paradise,
party, ub. It reads its information from hand histories, which you
supply it.(And as discussed there's also a market for buying/selling
hand histories). Omaha+O8 application in beta right now.

Poker-edge is a client server application, which gives you access to a
massive online database of poker players including those you have not
played against. You pay for it as a service on a monthly basis. For $10/mo
you get access to games up to 3/6 and $50 max buyin nl/pl. For $20/mo
you get access to all stakes games. Supports only hold'em on party poker
and affiliates



On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:04:04PM -0700, Uncle Roger wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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