Full Tilt Poker Demands Removal of Stats from OPR

Full Tilt Poker, the second most popular online poker room in the world, has demanded that Official Poker Rankings (OPR) remove all tournament results and player statistics. Stating that the site "gives players an unfair advantage" and is similar to a shared hand history database, Full Tilt Poker’s mandate was accepted by OPR… for now. What’s next is anyone’s guess.

Officially, OPR representatives have posted on various forums that they do not believe their service gives players an unfair advantage since the site is free and available to anyone. OPR went on to say that all the data the online poker tracking site collects is publicly viewable at the end of each tournament in the lobby at Full Tilt Poker. OPR states that it does not collect hand histories nor provide access to any hand history information.

In an attempt to remedy the situation, OPR management has offered Full Tilt Poker several different solutions to keep tournament results on the site, but for now, the request stands. Unfortunately for many users, Official Poker Rankings has followed the demands for the time being and removed all Full Tilt Poker tournaments.

A Full Tilt Poker spokesperson told Poker News Daily, "We are currently in communication with Official Poker Rankings to establish a set of guidelines that is in the mutual interest of all parties, including our valued players. We hope to have the matter resolved as soon as possible and appreciate your patience in the meantime."

For now, other sites including PokerStars, the Ongame Network, and PartyPoker continue to feed in data and report rankings from the last 120 days on the front page of OPR. From there, users can research all of the players picked up by the free service to see their rankings, ratings and winnings. The site does not report any game playing statistics and does not sell hand history files like other reporting websites.

Many in the industry feel that the demands of Full Tilt Poker are a bit out of line because the site doesn't seem to violate any Terms of Service. OPR’s results include public information; however, the data is processed into concise and accurate reports for people to peruse freely.

Oftentimes, OPR is used in order to justify claims that a player is a winning one when offering to sell pieces of his own action. For example, Player A will want to play in a big buy-in tournament and tell people he's a wise investment because historically he's a winning player. Other people interesting in giving Player A money toward the buy-in in exchange for receiving a portion of the winnings would use OPR to do their due diligence. Now, they are left without a means of substantiating such claims of success.

Most of the reaction among users is negatively pointed towards Full Tilt for this crackdown in policy. In the meantime, the staff at OPR maintains that negotiations are ongoing and all the other sites they report on will continue without incident.

Member Comments

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2013-09-14 22:43:15

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2013-09-15 23:41:05

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2013-09-16 10:34:41

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