[ShakeZula06]

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Our house,

So using your logic regarding HUDs, I must be cheating because I spend time posting on a poker website and reading poker books.

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Nope. Feed your brain all you want. Don't get help while you're playing.

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80% of the players on line don't that either. Using something that is available to all is not cheating or unethical.

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Really? AIM is available to all. So are simultaneous cable and DSL connections. So are everyone's hole cards and IP addresses....if you are smart enough to get past the encryption. I'm not, so I guess that makes you a better poker player than I am.

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The sites provide EVERYONE their own hand histories. What people choose to do with that information is their own business.

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Really? Does the site give you the hand history with an attached message that says "Here, this is yours. Whatever you do with it is your own business."? I think it's quite the contrary.

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I tried getting this answer from the OP and couldn't. Why is having more info in a legal manner unethical just because it's during the game?

Simulatanius internet connnections and using aol is illegal per T&C. Thus it is unethical. As others have said, your using a straw man.