Online poker enthusiasts who have somehow managed to get a bad reputation over the months or years that they have been playing poker online can now play incognito at Ladbrokes Poker, one of the biggest online gaming service providers in the UK. This poker site has recently introduced Anonymous Tables for this very purpose.
Anonymous Tables, which are available along with the usual poker tables, follow the same rules, regulations, and procedures of regular poker tables. The only difference is that players are no longer identified by user names, monikers or handles. Every time a player chooses to play anonymously at the anonymous table, the site gives him/her a tag, which is generated at random, for identification purposes. The popular variant of Texas Hold’em, governed by the same rules, is played at the Anonymous Tables.
Ladbrokes Poker Head Kate MacLennan informed the media and the poker gaming world that poker players could never play anonymously in the past because of the presence of identifying user names and avatars, but now thanks to Anonymous Tables, they can play without anybody guessing their identity. This means that poker professionals can play without the danger of opponents trying to adjust to their well-known style, while new players can experiment with various gaming styles and strategies without being identified and eliminated.
Players, however, aren’t as enthusiastic about the Anonymous Tables as Ladbrokes Poker might have hoped chiefly because of the ugly bot issue that has reared its head recently. Critics have also raised questions regarding the dangers of collusion and multi accounting; but Ladbrokes Poker has assured that the monitors of the Anonymous Tables will have access to players’ real identities despite the anonymity.
Ladbrokes Poker has made a move to patent Anonymous Tables; but if they become popular, rival poker sites will start offering them too.
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