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From the WinHoldem Forum - The Wired Thread

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PartyPoker's Bhargava insists that the game is still fair. "There are people who spend all their waking hours dreaming about how to bring us down," he says. "They can dream about creating fantasy bots that will play for them or make them money while they sleep, but that's not going to happen."

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this guy must be referring to somebody else - because as for us (the winholdem vendor) it is not in our best interest to "bring .. down" party - in what context does the seller of a pokerbot engine benefit by losing a large site where there is significant real money play 24/7? do these people not understand that we are in favor of them staying in business?

also consider his general attitude concerning a scenario where you the player actually profit from their site - they just cannot stand the idea that you're not at your keyboard - the turing test is evidence of this general sentiment in that they want to keep you the human chained to their site at all times.

do they not realize that when human players get too bored they logout? do they not realize that as much as 70% of playing time can be total idle time?

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I don't know what Ray Bornert is really thinking, but his statements deny the Obvious:

If Poker bots proliferate the Casual Players will simply QUIT ONLINE POKER

That's Inevitable. Virtually all that will be left of the Online sites will be people challeging bots with bots and a few superior pros that can still beat the bots. For Party Poker that Market is a Tiny fraction of it's Casual Live Player Market. There are billions of dollars at stake for the Party Poker Corporation and they will do whatever they can to prevent this. It remains to be seen what they actually can do, and whether the Cure will be as bad as the Disease.

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