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traxamillion United States. Dec 24 2009 15:57. Posts 10468

think they actually do this?

Hello Cameron,

Thank you for your email.

As I am sure you know, any player has the ability to open a tournament lobby
and see who won the event (as well as who else played). A number of third
party sites gather this information from the PokerStars game software lobby
using automated programs, and compile the data into a database that players
can access.

PokerStars has been listening to recent player feedback regarding these
sites. We want to limit the amount of information that third party results
websites can publish because of our strong commitment to upholding the
integrity of our games. We oppose websites publishing player profitability
data by default for two key reasons:

Firstly, many of our players simply do not want their ROI information to be
publicly available. They have a right to privacy of this information.

Secondly, it gives an unfair advantage to those players who are able to
obtain ROI data about players who have not consented for their information
to be shown.

We have been working with various sites that currently display player
profitability data and the vast majority of those sites have agreed to
modify the default settings for the display of player data. Sites who are
working with us have agreed that profitability data will only be available
on players who have themselves specifically opted in, thus giving their
consent for their profitability data to be displayed on that service. The
default setting will be that tournament cashes only will be displayed.

The sites who intend to comply with our data policy also agree to allow
players to opt out totally from their service, so that zero information will
be displayed about them.

Among the sites that have agreed to comply and that will remain permitted
are officialpokerrankings.com, cardplayer.com and thepokerdb.com. Note that
these sites might not necessarily be able to show all the information they
currently display, once opt-in is fully functional.

Those sites that refuse to remove player profitability and ROI data by
default will be prohibited for use in conjunction with the PokerStars
Client. PokerStars will enforce such prohibitions by changing the PokerStars
software such that the prohibited sites will not be able to extract the data
from the PokerStars client without either the permission of PokerStars, or
the players concerned.

We believe that this policy will deliver on our commitment to listening to
players who have overwhelmingly asked us to prevent sites from publishing
their private information, while not being heavy handed against the many
players who are not aware of the rules against them, or who are concerned
about their browsing privacy.

As always, we welcome feedback on this policy, so please email us anytime at
support@pokerstars.com. We will work hard to deliver the best possible poker
games, with the highest standards of integrity now and into the future.

If there is anything else we may assist you with, please do not hesitate to
contact us again.

Kind regards,

Susan W
PokerStars Support Team

----- Original Message -----
From: cjduncan5@gmail.com
Sent: 2009/12/19 19:20:28
To: support@pokerstars.com
Subject: website problem

>It has been brought to my attention there is widespread use of a site "
>pokertableratings.com" where anyone can go on and look at my detailed
>playing statistics. Is there anyway i can have my information blocked?
>

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ggplz Sweden. Dec 24 2009 16:00. Posts 16784

officialpokerrankings.com is not pokertableratings.com

if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN

RICHI8 United States. Dec 24 2009 16:01. Posts 1341

I like the sounds of that.

LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Dec 24 2009 16:03. Posts 15163

Watching PTR is fun when I am bored

+ev changes proposed though

93% Sure!

Etherone Canada. Dec 24 2009 16:21. Posts 753

to be quite honest this should have been done already.

Garfed Malta. Dec 24 2009 16:37. Posts 4818

All the sites PS support listed are about tournament/SNG results.

Bare in mind that they didint mention anything about blocking cash tracking websites, which is exactly what ptr.com is.

k2o4 United States. Dec 24 2009 17:43. Posts 4803

I hope they kill PTR

InnovativeYogis.com

Stroggos New Zealand. Dec 24 2009 18:32. Posts 1117

"we'll see if your even around in 5 years" -Pokerstars

KeyleK_uk United Kingdom. Feb 21 2010 17:24. Posts 1687

On December 24 2009 17:32 Stroggos wrote:
"we'll see if your even around in 5 years" -Pokerstars

lol much love

poker is soooo much easier when you flop sets