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I'll just give a personal example:

I make 100 trades/day on the NYSE...
And make about $1,000/day...
And I make money about 80% of trading days.

Now...
I am not a "great trader" - just a "very good" trader.
I used to trade in the now defunct Toronto Stock Exchange Futures pit...
So I have known many natural "great traders".


BUT...
Several computers...
And some very elaborate proprietary software that I have developed over 10 years...
Allow me to be ** very profitable **.

After researching poker for 5-6 months...
Pretty much the same thing applies to Online Poker...
SNGs in particular.

A "very good" poker player assisted by the right proprietary software...
Can generate the income of a "great player"...
And with somewhat less variance.

There is a large group of computer engineer types...
Who believe that "collusion" is cheating...
But view "computer assisted play" as OK and inevitable.

Also people from the stock trading world...
Where Automated Trading Systems are ubiquitous...
Do not view "computer assisted play" as unethical.

Also...
And this may come as a great shock to you...
But there are a lot of computer engineer types...
That would rather spend 1000 hours of fascinating work building a Bot...
Than spending 40 soul-destroying minutes times 1,000 or 10,000...
Playing slo mo poker with the idiots at the $11s.

Bots are here to stay...
And are just building momentum.

Eventually...
They will be part of the online scenery...
Just like program trading on the NYSE.

It's a battle Party Poker cannot win...
Because, ultimately, it's the owners that control their computers.

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