Datamining should not be allowed
I'm w/ you on this... poker tracker is like the spell check of poker... i teach high school math, and i see kids mispell their names on occasion...
i don't have a problem with PT... after a few years of being stubborn, i hit a bad downswing and purchased the program for an instant self-evaluation of my last 30k hands... it is a very useful program, and helped me fill several major major holes in my game... of course i use it for evaluating other players as well... paying the 50 bux and not doing so would be ridiculous... however is still try to jot down some good qualitative data on players, when i see something that the 4 numbers Gametime+ puts up could miss...
the true part that i feel is ruining poker is the data-mining capability... i play on PR and it is not capable of datamining, and i feel comfortable that an opponent will not have more info on me than i do on them... you should not be able to gain information on a player w/o game experience against them... doing so is pretty lame IMHO... w/ that being said, I do not fault those who datamine... as players, we look to exploit every edge conceivable, and if the site allows it, it's open season IMO... however, that is one thing that keeps me away from PP the majority of my playing time, despite the more lucrative small stakes games... it's up to the site to not allow datamining, as i believe they should not
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