The war between the largest poker room online and the more datamining online site continues. We speak of course of PokerStars and PokerTableRatings (PTR). For a few years now, PokerStars trying to prohibit the PTR site make the datamining on its games platform. Today, she does with legal action. This is Lee Jones who announced it on Twoplustwo Monday forums. In his words (translation): "we told them to stop infringing the right to intellectual property and violate the terms and conditions of the software of PokerStars. We currently have several lawyers who work on this case and other legal actions will follow."
PTR collects hands from cash games and sit'go to several sites and networks including PokerStars, Merge, Party and recently, 888network.
The datamining (due to build up of hands histories without playing) is prohibited by several rooms including PokerStars poker. As a result, PTR "flies" hands (or obtained illegally) for resale to its members (which is doubly criminal). Indicatively, PTR collects 18 million new hands per day. To date, it is the largest site of datamining online, which is no stranger to success of course.
PTR is a great tool for several obvious reasons, but is also a tool of the devil for other reasons. Heads up players have already understood this since long. PTR, is often the tool of choice for the "bumhunter" (players who refuse too fierce competition and seeking tirelessly the "fish"). Heads up solid players (and regular good in general) will rejoice at this news.
Tools like PTR eliminate fish very quickly. The recreational (and bad) player who makes a deposit on a poker site and which has a losing record on PTR will be quickly identified by the increasingly voracious regular.
When he takes his seat, he will see a regular orde to sit alongside her, eager to pluck it. Quickly, the fish will lose all his money and will have a bad image of the poker. He will have too quickly lost his money and will not have had the pleasure and adrenaline he was looking for. Result? It will be less likely to repeat a deposit.
Poker rooms are part of the losers in this story since they rapidly lose their recreational customers.
Lee Jones promises to keep us abreast of developments in this case.
PokerCollectif will make every effort to give you the latest information as soon as they become known.
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