Thanks much for the article. As a sometimes PokerStars player and fulltime software guy, this stuff (including the Coding the Wheel article set on a poker bot)

Thanks much for the article. As a sometimes PokerStars player and fulltime software guy, this stuff (including the Coding the Wheel article set on a poker bot) is super interesting. I haven't been playing as much online this past year and recently exchanged a series of emails with PokerStars support. Basically, I was arguing for the ability to have a pseudonym instead of a fixed logon displayed as a user and in log files. It seems like a simple step to kind of cut-off lowest hanging fruit for unethical players. Some of the heads-up displays (skins riding on top of the poker stars client) are showing opponent hand ranges based on data mining game logs. This seems like something that should be part of the thinking process of the game, not your HUD tools. No casino is going to let you sit down with your snazzy odds calculator at the poker table. The official response is that this is info that a player knows about the opponent anyway and doesn't represent any threat to the integrity of the game. Course, maybe I read too many postings from players who are multi-tabling 24 games at once with their backend dbs and HUDs.