That’s not how poker works
ClubWPT Gold has left the poker community bewildered, wondering if the new feature in its poker client is there for pure profit, a troll, or because the site thinks it actually benefits the game.
On Thursday, the sweepstakes online poker site introduced a button at the virtual tables labeled “Reveal Hands.” With this button, players can pay three big blinds (two at high stakes) to see everyone’s hole cards after the hand is over. The fee seems to go straight into ClubWPT Gold’s coffers.
The price to reveal hands will also increase the more an individual uses it. And you don’t even have to be sitting at the table to use the feature – observers can pay to see everyone’s cards, as well.
Something that ClubWPT Gold says will allow players to “never lose sleep over a poker hand again,” clearly runs contrary to one of the most basic aspects of poker: incomplete information. And that’s not just incomplete information during the hand – it’s incomplete information after. Not knowing what your opponents had is part of the game. As you play, you see some hands, and you don’t see others and gradually build your dossier on your opponent.
But now, those with the deepest pockets can just pony up some extra dough and see everybody’s cards, whether a player folded pre-flop or stayed in through the turn. It’s awful.
Poker pros spit bile
And the majority of poker pros agree. While some people think the feature can be useful in slowing down collusion, most consider it an affront to the game of poker.
Just hours after ClubWPT Gold posted a video introducing the feature, this year’s WSOP Player of the Year Shaun Deeb tweeted, “The fact you haven’t canceled this yet is just awful awful marketing you were crushing it and long term going to kill your site.”
Brain Rast, a Poker Hall of Famer, called it “one of the worst ideas I’ve heard in poker.”
Another HOF’er, Daniel Negreanu, said he checked to be sure it wasn’t April 1st, the idea is that bad.
The list goes on and on, with poker players calling the revel hands feature “insane,” “sick,” “unbelievably stupid,” and “moronic.”
Most prefer the feature to be removed altogether, but if there is anything that can save it, the consensus is that the fee must go to the players and not the poker room, or at least the lion’s share of the money must go to the players. As Vanessa Kade tweeted, “It’s the player’s information to share or not, the site getting all the money from forcibly exposing information without the player’s consent is no good.”
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