Screen Scraping Is The Only Way To Go
The premise that you could hack...
The data stream to the Poker Client...
Assumes that the guys who designed it are idiots.
There are many little tricks to make Screen Scraping...
Via simple API calls to get each pixel color...
Very robust.
So example the "busted" graphics you mentioned...
Min/Max window and it's perfect again.
If you have every pixel...
You can absorb 100% of the information a human can...
In absolute real time.
And you can make any response or analysis...
More reliable than a human.
An experienced, careful human...
Will make a significant error every 200-300 actions.
A well designed automated system can do at least as well.
You make a statement like...
And I'm paraphrasing...
"One occasional error and your profit margin is gone".
Nonsense.
My guess would be...
That an error has something like the following breakdown:
(1) in your favor -> 10%
(2) innocuous -> 80%
(3) costly -> 10%
Pixel color pattern matching...
Is the only professional way to go.
Once you've built a pixel by pixel pattern matching engine...
And can simulate human like mouse movement...
Via a custom mouse driver or API or whatever...
You have total control...
(Over any application).
Also, there is no reason...
For Party to give you a real time text hand history.
Most sites do not.
I would expect Party to eliminate it...
And no one will even notice.
Oh yeah...
And it's also a good idea to isolate the Poker Client...
In a "virtual computer" like VMWare (which works great).
All the Spyware can see...
Is a virgin Windows installation running the Poker Client.
(It can't even see the VMWare...
Unless it does complex low level reads of your disk drive).
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