Tuff Fish's proposal cleared by CA Sec. of State for petition circ.

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As a multitabling grinder myself, it would actually benefit me (and lots of other serious pros) if these measures were enacted. We will always be able to find ways around them, and the less devoted and not-so-computer-savvy multitabling semi-pros will be the ones who will really take the hit.

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this is true, and wholly unfair. i too am a multitabling gringder. I am however, not a computer expert. when it comes to playing online poker for a living, it wouldn't be close to right if it does come down to this and all of a sudden i need to be a winning poker player AND a computer technician.

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I don't mind multi-tablers but do have a pet-peeve about software assisted ones. Be it HUDs, personal databases or leased ones, based on hand histories, I say ban the computer assistance. Those tools belong in play chip land as learning aids.

I know this is often an unpopular sentiment, but I'm old school. If you can't use it in a B&M, it has no place in an on-line game. Most players of any fish scale have no problem using our brains and bankrolls against other's brains and bankrolls but some how feel cheated playing against the software assisted so called sharks.

Yes I've heard all the arguments, including the "multi-tablers play sub-optimal poker so a good single table player is better off" one. Personally I think the whole industry built around all the software assistance is bad for on-line poker. If nothing else with the advances in software, computing power and the advent of leased databases if not halted at some point will lead to a potentially serious advantage and an ever increasing software arms race. I can imagine the development of a HUD that not just puts you on a hand based on what average players do in that position, but one based on what you’ve done in that same situation based on every hand you’ve ever played on-line. Not just the ones someone has data mined by playing against you.

Let people play as many tables as they want and can afford to play. Eliminate hand histories and the ability to save them from real money poker.

Just an unpopular PERSONAL opinion,

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If you checkout the older archives, their were a few B&M players who used handwritten hand histories and handwritten databases of players/notes. Jim Brier could give you Pokertracker"esque" stats on his and his opponent's play.