pokerstars

I havent played on pokerstars in a long time and I was thrilled to see that added a similar feature to fulltilt to view your cars after youve mucked!! way to go pokerstars!!

actually the shadow cards have been there for about a month and a half
good to c ya playingat PS again
good luck

Yea, that`s right, shadow cards are new and a very good idea.

Yeah I sent them an email thanking them personally, and they emailed me back and said thank you very much. Excellent feature.

IMO, I don't think it's the best idea as it may induce bad play for future games.
eg:say you have Q-10 in EP and you limp in only to be raised 4-5xBB(obv fold) and the flop comes Q-10-x. now your thinking you should have kept your Q-10 no matter what the raise is.
later on you keep Q-10 because of what you had earlier and eventually lose more chips this way.
Just my opinion.

Encouraging fishier play is fine by me

This. Any good poker player realizes it doesn't matter if they flop a full boat with 59o, it's still a bad play to call with it. Now we just need to have an extra line in the chat box. After the line where it says who won with what, it needs to add if you would have won the pot "you would have won with [hand]."

With selective memory the way it is, it'll be no time before people think that every time they folded before it told them they would have won the pot, and we'll see people playing all kinds of crap.

And jt, what happened to your avatar? Used to enjoy reading your posts just for the picture at the top, now I'm actually going to have to find some good content to be impressed by your posts

It's a convenient feature, but dont' know that it will influence anyone to make future plays based on it.

After all, online hands happen seconds apart and I can usually remember my last mucked cards for that long. If I can't, it's the premature ejac version of rabbit hunting ...