Patrik Antonius: Tracking Software Makes Online Poker Unfair

“I lost about a million straight and then I realized that I couldn’t beat the ring-games anymore and that was largely due to tracking software.”

Key Takeaways

Former Full Tilt Team Pro Patrik Antonius has explained that he no longer plays high stakes online because of the use of poker tracking software.
The fact that such a high profile poker player has made these comments will be of concern to many online operators who allow such software.
The comments come amid a recent trend among operators to curb the efficacy of third party software.

Former Full Tilt Team Pro Patrik Antonius has explained that he no longer plays high stakes online No Limit Hold’em or Pot Limit Omaha because of the use of poker tracking software and Head Up Displays (HUD).

“If you don’t use poker software it’s not a fair game anymore,” Antonius said in unprepared remarks for an interview with PokerListings on Day 4 of the EPT Barcelona Main Event.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on September 03, 2015.

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