PokerStars beta hand replayer; hide the mucked cards?
by PokerAnon ~ August 1st, 2008. Filed under: Micro level poker.
PokerStars has recently added an animated hand history replayer. Operationally, it works similar to PokerTracker, Holdem Manager or PokerOffice except it uses the actual PokerStars table that you viewed.
I have two issues with it, which I’ve emailed support about. One is that the replayer doesn’t adjust the table according to your preferred seat. I’m normally at 9 player tables, and I like seat 5 so that I’m always at the bottom of the screen. This is particularly useful when you’re multi-tabling so that you always see yourself at the same position. Since the replayer doesn’t take this into consideration, I have to twist my perception around to try to view the events as I see the live table.
The second is that I’d like to be able to disable the sound in the replayer while still leaving the sound on for the live tables. I rely on the sounds to some extent as a trigger, so to have the replayer making sounds is a bit confusing.
Otherwise it’s great. Essentially you see the hand as just it played out, except for the preferred seat adjustment. It’s now a step ahead of the static graphic hand history that Full Tilt has had for years.
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The thing that I find very interesting is the people that dislike the replayer because “you shouldn’t get to see the mucked cards“??? This is bizarre, because you always could see the mucked cards at showdown, all you had to do was to pull up the text hand history. And for those using PT or HEM, the mucked showdown cards always appear for us on the table after the hand.
All these people making these statements obviously had no clue that the mucked cards were always available. I mean, I know there always were idiots who said things like “you were lucky; I had QQ” when PT or HEM showed they had T8 for a gutshot draw that missed, so obviously they had no clue, but I didn’t realize how many other people apparently were also clueless.
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What I’m curious about is how the replayer is going to affect the play of those that believed that the mucked cards were hidden. Will they bluff less, especially on the river? Or will the bluff more, especially big bluffs only on the river to try to hide what they called down with?
