Preflop Bot

[gusly]

Here's my two cents.

1. Don't market this as a "bot." Market it as a "software skin" with added functionality. Said functionality being the ability to predetermine preflop actions, based on a "user-specified" set of rules.

Include a table of all possible starting hands, and have the user decide what action to take by checking off the appropriate choice based on position, pot size etc. Save the choices to an encrypted preferences file that can't be shared with other copies of the software. And don't include any suggestions other than telling the buyers that they can find advice on starting hands in poker books and on the Web. The appeal should lie in the ability to cut down on button-clicking, not in the ability to make calculations...

2. Include the option to modify those predetermined actions in real time. This will keep the fishes in play.

For example, say you're at x number of tables... your software skin could have a display of the cards you've been dealt and what the upcoming action will be, along with other relevant data, all in one spot. So for two tables:

<font color="green"> Table 1 </font> Kd Kh <font color="blue"> Action: </font> Fold Check Call <font color="red">Raise </font> ManualPlay
<font color="green"> Table 2 </font> Ac 6s <font color="blue"> Action: </font> <font color="red"> Fold </font> Check Call Raise ManualPlay

(To simplify things, I've left out relevant data such as position, number of callers etc.)

So a fish, having allowed the software to fold ace-rag twice in a row before the flop comes with two aces, decides that aces are hot tonight, and he's going to play his ace no matter what, goddammit. So he can change the predetermined action before it gets to him by clicking on ManualPlay or Call. +EV for the rest of us who know what we're doing.

Also, it would be cool to have something like this for SNGs and MTTs that will factor in blind levels etc.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I am against bots such as Winholdem and Robowhatever. I consider that cheating. My post here is simply about automating preflop button clicks that I would do myself anyway, based on knowledge acquired from books and the forums here.