[TheMuppet]

Going back to what stars says:

"That decision stands, and no such software has ever been developed in PokerStars
software to view hole cards live in real time."

This is BS. You don't need any special software at all, the client is fully capable of displaying the hole cards, if the server sends it to the client.

What they mean is, that the game server has no flag that can be set, so that all or one players receives all the hole cards.

Why no special client? Check out tournament play backs. The hole card info is sent for all players (well the once that agreed to have them sent during playback). No special client, no tricks no nothing.

And I seriously doubt the AP software is any different. If the server sent the info, I'm sure the client would display it without any changes.

Btw. I'm not bashing stars here. I'm just saying that they didn't exactly say it like it is. And I'm 100% sure the stars game server do not have the capabilities to send hole card information for all players to a given user (for live play).

I'm also fairly certain that AP did in fact have such a feature built into its game server. And that a special user needs to login to get the info. I'm also fairly certain that this user could not participate in the game, and only observe.

But without actually looking at the code for the game server, this will be impossible to prove / disprove.

So if AP really wants to come "clean" have them release the game server code for review [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Disclaimer / background:
I have never ever developed software for poker rooms.
All my assumptions are based on evidence presented in numerous threads here on 2p2. And on my experience as a software developer, specifically trading software (stocks, bonds, futures etc).
We used the same software for traders as we did for the guys monitoring the market, the only difference was the amount of information sent by the central servers.