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Quick questions for those who say "it's available to everyone"....

A few months ago, there was a well known site (I forgot the name) that was looking to implement HUDs into their software for all players to have. What do you think of that? Yay or Nay? I would assume Nay.

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This wouldn't really matter much. Bad players will make no sense of stats. Good players will. Bad players will not become good players because they see their VPIP is 40. The only thing that might happen here, is that a few bad players might become interested in using the stats and maybe investigate on how to improve their game. I run into people on party all the time talking about HUD stats. And they'll be 25/0/0s. The value in HUDS is very little and mostly comes from helping to multi table.

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Now, IF that were implemented on the site, what percentage of total players (not 2+2ers) do you think would be like "wow, I've never seen this before!"? 20%? 80%? My guess would be it's closer to the 80%. Just goes to show how widely known this stuff really isn't. (like that grammar?)

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It will be alot. Just like 80percent of players would be surprised if party had a link to 2p2 on their lobby, or if party sent out SSHE every time someone signed up. Just because the majority of players are not serious and will not investigate or study the game, does not mean that serious players are unethical for doing so.

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Do you honestly think we should be more entitled to these programs than they are because we clicked a few download links, ran some imports, or shared databases and they didn't?

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Of course I do. Why should a casual player be entitled to a level field agaisnt a player that put in time and effort to learn strategy, investigate and acquire the tools that are allowed by the sites, study, practice, and tweak his game. This is a competitive game we are playing. There are going to be people that take it seriously. And there will be people who don't care at all other then to gamble and have fun. You can't say it is unfair to the casual player. The casual player makes the decision to play in this environment.