Cost of exposed hole cards

[Piece of Cake]

As stands, do you think FT loses much business to Stars because of their current policy of exposing mucked hands at showdown to non-playing observers (i.e. or for that matter allowing datamining)? Would that change significantly if they started revealing mucked hands to observers in pre-showdown folds as well?

Granted this is not an insigificant difference, revealing complete preflop hand ranges, bluffs and big folds obvious adds a wealth to the value of datamining. I just wonder how much business a site would lose if they implemented this policy - even if they did so on a 24 hour delay?

[RobAtticus]

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As stands, do you think FT loses much business to Stars because of their current policy of exposing mucked hands at showdown to non-playing observers (i.e. or for that matter allowing datamining)?

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I'm pretty sure this is wrong. I think only players in the game can see the mucked hands, that's the way it's always been for me I believe.

EDIT: Just tried it. As an observer, you can only see cards that were shown at showdown -- not mucked ones.