'People responded, but they basically said, 'No, not interested.' And then despite this, I still chose to keep on the delay for nearly two years, obviously to the detriment of revenue and customer (user experience) and everything.' In its first nearly two years on the market, Odin operated with a 20-second delay to prevent RTA, a timeframe Young noted was 'more than enough time to make sure that it can't be abused.'Īccording to Young, he reached out to other major poker training software providers 'to negotiate a gentleman's agreement where the one thing we never compete on is the delay, for the sake of the future of online poker.' Odin and Prometheus Poker founder Rory Young pushed back on this criticism by pointing out that other prominent poker training tools have always operated without a delay (albeit with other RTA-prevention methods in place) and claiming that these sites were unwilling to agree 'on having the same delay on our respective products.' The discussion surrounded the decision by poker training software Odin Poker to remove its 20-second delay, something that critics warned encourages cheating by allowing users to see outputs in real-time to make optimal decisions.

Poker Training Operators Put on DefensiveĪs the threat of real-time assistance (RTA) to online poker continues to permeate, who is responsible for detecting and preventing cheating in the online poker space? Poker sites? Government regulators? Poker training software developers? This is a question that several prominent poker players and training site owners debated this week in the latest controversy over the future of online poker in the age of artificial intelligence.

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