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Anyone can use PT or other software. Anyone can stop playing at tables where they are used.

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Anyone cannot use it.

Not only does it costs $55 (or whatever) for the software, but you have to know about it and have some expertise in using it to benefit from it.

Someone who deposits $200 at Party to try out the .5/1 tables cannot reasonably buy this software.

Anyone playing those games and using the software has a distinct advantage over this player.

You can say "so what" or "so be it" or "screw the loser who only deposits $200" but that doesn't change the fact that someone who can afford the $55 and the time to learn the software has an advantage at the poker table.

Some people think this is so unfair that active steps should be taken to eliminate this advantage.

I don't completely agree with them, but I understand their argument and think it has some reasonable logic behind it.

If the poker sites were to ban the software, I would stop using it. One of the primary reasons I started using it in the first place was so that other players wouldn't have an advantage over me (which goes back to OP's original point about a "software arms race").