From Online-Casinos – The Bodog Poker Network has been attempting to create a new recreational model for poker players on the internet and has battled a public campaign against poker tracking and poker volume tracking sites.
Recently Dan Stewart’s online poker traffic-reporting site PokerScout.com which Bodog has been trying in vain to delete has indeed disappeared for 24 hours. Tracking sites such as PokerScout benefits the grinders and sharks while only diminishing the very idea of the recreational poker players that are the essence of any online poker system.
The move to completely anonymous tables by Bodog includes large investments in technology to block sites from garnering proprietary data from the poker games. These investments worked well, as it’s now impossible for third parties to collect Bodog poker data, which made tracking sites and the makers of the various poker heads-up-display software to leave and no longer offer support for the Bodog Poker Network.
In a rare acknowledgement of their inability to collect real data from Bodog, the PokerScout web site has added estimation to the numbers it attributes to Bodog Poker Network on the site. These estimates are still being sold to the clients of PokerScout. The practice of gathering data from online poker sites is ethically and most likely illegal and definitely consumer fraud.
