Is it true I'm playing against bots?

Benoit · #1 03-27-2005, 09:28 PM

I've read some people use poker bots to play for them or just software to read me and recommend what action to take. Is this true? This might explain why it has been so profitable when I change my style heads up?

With blinds still small to our stacks and me covering him by about T1000 I bet my top pair (tens) and he called. Turn makes it trips and with him first to act we check it around to the river. The river is a blank and I over bet the pot and he re-raises all in with a pair of nines.

I do continuation/probe bets and normally slow down if called because I take it as an indication I'm behind, so I rarely slow play. Heads up I start to slow play a bit. Could this be the software remembering my past actions and telling him I'm weak?

TheUsher · #2 03-27-2005, 09:33 PM

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microbet · #3 03-27-2005, 10:40 PM

Fold.

nWirb · #4 03-27-2005, 10:43 PM

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Push.

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proell · #5 03-27-2005, 10:57 PM

I think a lot of players make this bet on the river when it is HU. the likelyhood of you having the set is pretty low, and with a pocket pair just under the high card which is paired I like the hand too.

bot or no bot, changing gears is a good thing.

eastbay · #6 03-27-2005, 11:07 PM

Yes you are (very occasionally) playing against bots.

Your theory about why you suspect them is, well, for lack of a better word, laughable.

eastbay

KenProspero · #7 03-27-2005, 11:26 PM

Here's a better question, eastbay -- are the bots we're occasionally playing against any good?

I've been toying around with software, such as Wilson's, which is kind of weak, unless the bots are markedly better than this -- bring 'em on!!

RicP · #8 03-28-2005, 12:40 AM

I don't know about playing against them...

I did hear someone wrote one to post on this forum.

barry111 · #9 03-28-2005, 12:46 AM

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I don't know about playing against them...

I did hear someone wrote one to post on this forum.

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push

Benoit · #10 03-28-2005, 01:02 AM

If you choose to belittle my question you could at least read it completely. I asked how likely it is that I'm playing against a bot OR a person with software helping him track my betting patterns, not if my example was a sign of one.

I remember reading somewhere that average internet players don't pay much attention to patterns, but if this is the case with software help, then we could conclude that the value of changing gears increases dramatically.

...Sorry as a side note I meant he got a pair of nines on the river (K9o), that explains why he didn't go all in on the turn.