I did get a brief message from Jeff at PokerStars who said he really couldn’t comment to bloggers. I felt it useful to point them to my previous blog about the issue. He forwarded the same boilerplate text as appeared in their forum post. Jeff is not from the Poker Room Managers staff. Jeff is from security. That ties in with a paragraph that you might have missed or skimmed over with a seemly nice glow.
| PokerStars recognises [SIC]that all-in protection has become less relevant as internet [SIC] connections have improved, and that there is a perception, real or not, that the system can be abused. |
What is coming to us here? It appears that the text is about or was created by their security department. Security departments at various sites are under the gun for a lot of issues. Thankfully, PokerStar’s problems are anything but at the magnitude of Absolute or UB.
But, they must be hyper aware of additional hot-button issues like robot play. That’s getting a lot of blog and forum press. We had a session between good players and a bot this summer that showed those beasts are at least as capable as our better players in heads up play. This gives average players concern