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This is all a fairly academic debate until someone finds out fersure whether Venetian is doing this. What the debate tells us, though, is that there is a large collection of players who would feel cheated if this happened. Which wouldn't be good for the Venetian. They can weigh the pros and cons of pissing off some subset of the poker players they were trying to attract vs the benefit they get from schmoozing the highrollers.