I am a lawyer who participates in the BBS lawguru.com, and I thought I would share the following question with you. I am not keeping the poster's confidence as I normally would, since, IMHO, he is asking how to break the law (or at least how to defraud other players).
>>>>>>>>> original message follows <<<<<<<<<<<<&l t;<
===========
Question:
http://www.lawguru.com/cgi/bbs/mesg.cgi?i=321459069
===========
Category: Computer & Technology Law
Location: CA
Subject: Online Gaming
I am capable of writing a program that posses the ability to play online poker (i.e. Party Poker) for me, commonly known as a ''pokerbot.'' As a profitable player, having this program play for me all of the time would enable me to easily make in excess of 5 million United States dollars this being at full capacity with multiple bots running at one time). I was wondering, how would I declare the money for my pokerbot without it being illegal, because if it truly is, then I don't want to get involved in it? I am not sure if playing online poker in California is illegal or not, but because of the large amounts of money the bot would potentially bring in, I believe that this would draw attention to myself.