[Tuff_Fish]

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Tuff:

DROP THIS CRUSADE AGAINST MULTITABLING!!!

You are alienating many allies, The only thing these guys would ally with is a return to Party Poker 2004. There is nothing else that would satisfy them. inviting ridicule from posters, or fevered objections to something that may never happen, but it is fun to tweak them a bit and thread-hijacking what could be a revolution in online poker.

In addition, in a distributed p2p environment such as may be born, chances are there will be an unlimited number of tables playable [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] To implement seating restrictions across a distributed network is inefficient and defeats the purpose of distribution of the network.
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I believe you are missing the idea of the model I am exploring. This is not a distributed poker network of thousands of tables. Not to say your model couldn't be an implememtation also. But what I have in mind is a small localized site, a self contained poker site consisting of one or a few tables.
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It would be administered and run exactly like a miniature Poker Stars. There would be a site owner, the guy with the server software, and a handful of clients, the other players at the site who may have server software or only client software. In any case, there is only one PC "putting on the game". The other PCs are "sitting in" the game. To leave that site, a player literally has to close that site and go to another site and login, exactly like going from Poker Stars to Full Tilt.
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So, if you like "Mikes" game, you get invited, login with a password, and play with the other players whom "Mike" has invited. So, you best know who "Mike" is if you are playing for real money. Either personally, or by reputation.
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This is exactly how underground live games are run. "Mike" makes the rules on how his site is run. If the poker software will support multitabling, and "Mike" wants to allow multitabling, fine. How big a poker room "Mike" will have depends on what the software will support and how many folks know about "Mikes" room and want to sit in. But players at "Mike's Place" will not have access to any other sites.
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If you want to attend "Bills's Palace" you will have to launch another client and login separately. Just like playing at Full Tilt and Poker Stars simultaneously.
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The beauty of it all is that "Mike", "Bill", "Fred", "Arnold", "Lisa", "Don", and "Joy" can all have sites running. The player can pick and choose amongst them just as he can presently choose which underground site to play at in Dallas, or overseas site to play at on the internet.
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The DOJ will go nuts trying to find which sites are legal, which may be shading the law, and whether any of them are actually charging to play.
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Also, know that the main reason a lot of people are taking the piss here is that they are *very fast* multitablers... a lot of people have an average time to act <1 second. These people are not slowing the games. Total malarky, they DO hold up the games. Nuff said. I ain't discussing it anymore.

dave.

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