Please understand that I am not arguing for or against the use of HUDs. I am only addressing your comments.
I don't condone the use of bots at all but they do something we don't which is strict consistent play based on a preset of rules.
This is in the same way that HUDs do something that we don't, which is strict, consistent recollection of every specific action that multiple opponents have taken over thousands of hands and across multiple tables.
Huds in no way make it to where I can play poker longer with performance in the 18th hour as it was in the first.
But, they can allow you to recall the performance of an opponent--down to the exact percentage of any type of action--as accurately in the 18th hour as in the first. They may not help you play poker longer, but they enable you to remember the actions of every one of your opponents that you have ever played with, whether you were tired one day or distracted on another day. It's also not about multiple hours. It's about multiple days, months, and thousands of hands. Mental performance is a type of performance. Our memories do fatigue. HUDs never forget, they are always accurate, and they are never clouded by emotional responses to the people at our table. Tilt and lack of discipline effect our play as well as our perception of our opponents.
But I do agree it's like a super extension of a memory but I don't need them to calculate.
HUDs serve many functions besides poker calculations. The primary function of a HUD is not to calculate
odds, or any other poker math. A HUD is used to track stats, and odds calculators are available in conjunction with certain HUDs.
Would you consider a dictionary an unfair study guide for a spelling bee?
No, but it would be unfair for a speller to reference a dictionary during a spelling competition.
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