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Message: [QUOTE="Alizona, post: 6354363, member: 444115"] A long time ago I was playing on Poker Stars play chips (I'm American and can't play for real money), and totally forgot that equity calculators are prohibited on Stars. I opened up PokerStove and immediately the Stars software gave me a popup box warning me that equity calculators are banned. It told me I immediately had to sent them an email acknowledging that I understood the rule and that I wouldn't do it ever again. So I wrote them the email, and after apologizing and promising as requested, I also put in a paragraph that said, "you know you're only penalizing the honest players, don't you? If an unethical player wants to use an equity calculator during play, they'll just run it on an unconnected laptop. So your rule only penalizes honest players while having no real effect on the dishonest ones." The site ignored my comment obviously, no response at all. They have no solution to stop it, that's the absolute fact. And it's not just equity calculators, its ANY "RTA" software that has this issue. There are many ways to run an unconnected computer with RTA on it but still be able to capture all the poker data off your table and input it automatically into the RTA software - for instance, just split the video cable off the internet-connected PC and run the split cable over to the unconnected laptop. Or use a camera focused on the computer monitor screen with "screen-scraping" optical character recognition software to input the poker table data into the unconnected laptop. It really is a total joke to think the unethical and immoral people can be stopped. Rules have good intent, but they really only stop the honest people (who likely aren't ever cheating anyway). It's just like gun laws... you can put all the penalties in place you want, but only honest people abide by laws. Dishonest people (i.e. the criminals) are gonna have a gun no matter what laws are in place to prevent it. The old cliche is absolutely correct, it says "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." And its the same with poker and RTA. This is one reason why I only grind freerolls and never deposit any "real money" of my own onto poker sites. It's just not worth the risk in my opinion, and besides, I enjoy the challenge much more when I have to begin from zero dollars and try to build my bankroll up from there. But I'm the oddball in that regard. Most don't have that kind of patience, and so they are risking money when they really have no idea what sort of disadvantage they may be facing in these online games. [/QUOTE]

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