PokerBuddy Beta Released

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The big sites (PokerStars, Party) are none too happy with centralized databases - see PokerEdge.[ QUOTE ]

What reasons have you heard that they don't want this?


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As I said, see PokerEdge.

Search in the Internet Gambling forum (and maybe here) somewhere around 18 months? ago for the full scoop.

Basically PokerEdge set up an online PT+PA-HUD like service, for a monthly fee. Their software collected hand histories from all users, and uploaded to the central database. Subscribers therefore had very accurate stats, drawn from the massive database.

PokerEdge was deemed an "unfair advantage" (knowledge of hands you had no part of, and in the case of Party knowledge of hands you hadn't even observed yourself) and banned by bothParty and Stars. To this day the presence of PokerEdge software or their website's cookies on your comp is enough to trigger "Illegal Software" pop-ups and account flagging at these sites.

Was quite a popular (and immensely powerful) fish-finder at it's peak... kinda like Sixth-Sense / SpadeEye are today but with the colume of data collected there was almost no-one they had no stats available for.

dave.