Re: Death of internet poker!!!
This is a real shame, they could have used this program to write a genuienly useful and interesting piece of software.
I once wrote an interface to a card room (ladbrokes) which operated using screen scraping.
My conclusion was that there is a good reason that screen scraping is almost never done, it is f**king hard to do (I lecture computer science - I am a very competant programmer).
These guys have achieved it (at least to some extent, it seems a lot of people are having problems running this app)
The value of having an automated interface to poker rooms is considerable.
1/ You can build up your poker tracker database without having to be seated at the table.
2/ You can play a lot of tables at once
3/ You can play a lot of websites at once with one uniform interface.
4/ You can try and design an automated player or assistant (stat generator, dynamic link to twodimes, dynamic link to poker tracker DB etc.)
And yet they have done a lot of work and produced a piece of crap. What a pity.
Tim
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