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Would online poker benefit from 3rd party clients?
Imagine Poker Stars (or any other major online poker room) would publish something like an application programming interface which would describe how to connect and communicate with the Poker Stars server.
The way would be clear for any kind of commercial or open source client and a new market could be born. Suddenly a huge amount of restrictions would disappear and many new +EV and -EV aspects would be available to the users. I first started to think about an open source client because there are flaws in functionality (IMHO) and appearance in every client I have used until now. But with openly publishing an online poker server API there are things possible which reach a lot farther than simple appearance changes or one-click-sit-in buttons. I can think of many interesting and powerfull stuff that could be done this way. But I am wondering what other peoples thoughts are. Please feel free to speak your mind. |
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Re: Would online poker benefit from 3rd party clients?
Bots? Not being able for the site to check what a user has running?
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Re: Would online poker benefit from 3rd party clients?
+ easier collusion
The PS is making it hard to read every possible info from lobby/tables (that's why there's no opener still). It's not like they don't know how to make it easy. It's like they try to make it as hard as possible. |
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Re: Would online poker benefit from 3rd party clients?
TheCutter,
why do you think the bot problem would be worse than it is now? Is it really best for online poker if the server side is able to decide which software should be allowed to run on the client side? freecard4all, why and by how much would collusion increase? |
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Re: Would online poker benefit from 3rd party clients?
The collusion problem could be solved: They (the poker side) could publish a closed source client-side module (e.g. library) which could do all the collusion detection stuff. The third party GUI would have to use the modules interfaces to connect to the server.
This is technically possible but expensive to implement (for the poker side)... |
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Re: Would online poker benefit from 3rd party clients?
[ QUOTE ]
TheCutter, why do you think the bot problem would be worse than it is now? Is it really best for online poker if the server side is able to decide which software should be allowed to run on the client side? [/ QUOTE ] Why? Because simply connecting to a server as a plugin to a poker client is MUCH easier than screen-scraping the tables, lobby, etc. Also, the pokersites not being able to detect abusive programs is IMO indeed a great problem, the user would be able to do anything he might want. |
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Re: Would online poker benefit from 3rd party clients?
It would be technically easier to connect a bot to a poker server but it would also be easier to datamine the games. Because of this it is probable that bots would be identified faster.
I think it would be naive for online poker sites to think that they can prevent collusion effectively by not allowing certain software to run on the client machine. Any kind of 'abuse' by 3rd party programs can change its shape very fast thus hiding from the poker site detection. In general I believe that it is easier to change the path of a continuous force than to neutralize it. |
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