poker tracker ruining online poker

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Poker tracker is ruining online poker, people are no longer playing poker they are dong their math homework. Lets not even mention how badly it slows down the game. The main point is not the time is the fact that players that use this have an unfair advantage against players that do not use the tracker. Shouldnt this be banned ? Please post your thoughts

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Looks like you make two points. 1. PT is ruinning online poker. 2. Pokertracker gives some players an unfair advantage and should be banned.

1. I don't see any evidence that online poker has been ruined. Is it currently being ruined? I don't see any evidence that of that either. Even if your premise is that players are now doing their math instead of "playing poker", whatever that means, I don't see how that equates into ruin. I suppose your point is the games are less juicy, but that's a far cry from ruin. Online poker is in fact incredibly healthy, and absent a govenrment assault on online poker I don't see anything that would change that.

2. Does PT give players an unfair advantage. Assuming for the sake of argument that PT does, in fact, give players an advantage over those who don't use it, I don't see this as an unfair advantage. The same effect can be done with free programs or without anything more complicated than excell.

Online poker has many differences from live poker and this is simply one of them. I know many players want online poker to simulate live poker as exactly as possible, but this seems like a silly attititude to me.

As long as the sites are willing to send us hand histories, the smart player will take advantage of that. There have always been players who will use all the tools within the rules to advance their game, and those who will not. The difference between such playes does not add up to "unfair".

PT should not be banned.