Are hand inspectors / bots decrypting network streams?

[Fryguy]

I started to do some research into how bots and hand inspectors work, in an attempt to write one for myself (mostly just practice coding over the summer). And I noticed that all of the traffic between us and the server is encrypted. Are these programs cracking this encryption? Or are they working strictly with the GUI elements?

[2+2 wannabe]

come on bikini inspector...

[KJ o]

They use the patented pattern mapper software that is advertised all over the net and in the Wall Street Journal.

Either that, or they use the hand histories stored in a text file on your computer.

[ZimbuTheMonkey]

Probably just the GUI elements, that's why they don't work when the table is blocked.

[krimson]

Is there anything else this forum can help you with to help you create your bot? You know how much we all love and support bot programmers!

[12AX7]

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Is there anything else this forum can help you with to help you create your bot? You know how much we all love and support bot programmers!

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Hi Krimson,
I agree, bots are badness for the game. However, what's the attitude toward these pot odds displayers like Poker Indicator and Poker Pal?

Seems to me that if a heads up display is powerful enough, the only difference between the two is that the player has to manually make the bets.

[MrMoo]

Most clients write a hand history file to disk in real time. Check in the programs folder.

[BradleyT]

Well if you're going to do screen scraping change your card images to all white background and one colored pixel representing suit and then 1-13 black pixels representing rank.

[parttimepro]

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1-13 black pixels representing rank.

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I think 4 pixels would be more than adequate.
The bigger problem is writing a character-recognition program to defeat the bot-blocking pop-ups. Good luck with that.

[bigalt]

i just hired a 13 year old puerto rican boy for that.