I spent a better part of the day yesterday playing $5 SNGs at FTP. I found two things disappointing. First off, some of my opponents appeared to be BOTs and second I have a pretty good idea I was the victim of collusion on more than one occasion.
Do I have any proof of these accusations? Sadly no. There are not any viable technologies to prove them unless the poker room has the proper analytics to track down this behavior. Collusion is a tough one, so I'm going to focus on that another time. Today I'm going to focus on the poker aids employed by many of the on line players, including BOTs.
I would like to sit down at an on line poker table and know that I'm playing against other humans and that they only know what they know about me through playing me. Just like live poker, I want to play human-vs-human. That is where the true skill lies. Playing, remembering and making decisions based on experience, not what the HUD is telling me. For the record, I do not use any of the poker tracking tools available to on line players.
In short, on line poker can have it's BOTs and HUDs because a good number of players use them. What I want is an on line poker room that prevents players from using such tools. That technology is easy to develop and it would be nice when an on line poker site steps up and tries to cater to the traditional player. One who wants to match skill-against-skill, not skill against computer.
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