aico, there are plenty of plugins that look at the incoming stream of cars and actions, and can predict the actions that a given player will make based on the flow. It can determine which players are fish and which ones are good players, which over time allows the software to guide you into playing hands against weaker players while avoiding stronger players. You can run it on the same PC or even cut and paste the hands to a difference machine and have it report.
Online poker in theory isn't the worst thing in the world, but when the dealing and hand results are a little off (someone has a finger on the scale) it blos the odds out the window and makes good plays into bad and bad plays into good.
The new PP starting chip counts for S&G and tournaments also means that people are way more likely to bet wild, and that combined with really poor hands hitting and winning means that players who would normally be fish are suddenly whales, feeling all good about themselves and playing a ton.
players who use to be good are suddenly sucking, and piling tons of money into "getting it back"... PP has found a way to motivate both ends of the scale.
They motivated me pretty much right out.
Alex
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