Good for Jivaro but that just ensures that Jivaro complies with current PS policy on 3-party tools. But that doesn't provide any additional guarantees to Jivaro customers for the case when, for example, PS decides to ban and restrict 3-party tools for any reason.
Banning 3-party tools is an ultimate step in promoting fair play in poker which PS is unwilling to make because it'll likely affect much of its player base. But if not banning but further restricting with regard to such tools is definitely an option because some poker rooms (like, as i know, Party Poker, Unibet and Ignition) already forbade hud and thus has got a competitive advantage over PS and other hud-allowing rooms. That's just a question how much PS is going to lose/gain if they decide to go tough on hud.
No. It's unfairly advantageous to people with naturally photographic memory or super high IQ to not allow any HUD at all. It's about making it limited to information that you could pick up if the turns were as long as live poker pretty much.
They want to keep the game human rather than let AI run rampant on it. Go visit
888 at the high stakes and even thought PP fights them, they are not nearly as efficient you will see at the higher stakes.
At high stakes of PS you will find barely any bot-like players and even better barely any colluders. PS may ban 'super information' softwares but it is itself a genius of data harvesting and application and will spot patterns of bots and colluders within 2 days of the cheating. It can even put you in prison if you don't pay back what you took from the players you cheated against and it achieves this by lockin ghte account and using your deposit. It may not publicly state this but I have no doubt they give small reward money to the people who report the bot players or cheaters for their good information.
They know how to run a business and I love them for it. You can say what you want about PS but it is not dishonest, it is the most transparent beautifully run corporation in the poker world BY MILES. you dont understand how big a gap there is between PS and other rooms in all respects until you really sit and read their wikipedia page or any biography of them. They literally were bottom of the food chain when they began. They ran all companies other than 888 into the dust (PP came much later on), they were such geniuses that they were the only poker room to use periods of DEBT such as the financial crisis etc to their ADVANTAGE. They made huge promotions about bigger bonuses and were willing to earn less profit to attract more customers despite it. They used a recession to be the only poker company to not run at a loss in the financial crisis. You don't understand about them, they are mechanically (as a corporation) and morally (as human beings in the poker community) unparalleled by any of their rivals.
You cannot even compare them to any other site in anything other than software quality and when it comes to that they MURK, if they were human beings they'd be that black belt guru who everyone pissed themselves to go up against.
You notice something; all the rude or infamous poker players are sponsored either by PP or some other company but all the polite and adorable ones are endorsed by PS. Despite being so idealistic in their choices of endorsement, they are brutally efficient with their pro picks and make sure they even compete with each other regularly to keep them on their toes.
You can diss them all you want but I tell you Jivaro is the most user friendly and fair HUD out there and pokerstars had a hand in its development because they were sick of the other HUDs being either too hard to use or so detailed it was unfair.