Online poker’s days are numbered ?

[Mr Gee]

Have a look at this site, which was discussed in a fairly recent thread. The site claims that Party actively scans your hard drive and takes screen shots of your desktop in order to prevent you cheating.

Even if it isn't true at the moment, there is no reason why poker sites couldn't implement something similar in the future if bots became a real problem. Would make running any type of bot pretty difficult.

[Sniper]

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The site claims that Party actively scans your hard drive and takes screen shots of your desktop in order to prevent you cheating.

Even if it isn't true at the moment, there is no reason why poker sites couldn't implement something similar in the future if bots became a real problem. Would make running any type of bot pretty difficult.

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Party's T&C tells you that it is indeed scanning and taking screenshots. However, there are ways to avoid detection.

BOTs should not be a concern, however, since unlike chess all information is not known, so there is no "perfect" strategy. Therefore, any given bot will advise/play a certain way and you as a player at the table will adjust your strategy against the bot, just as you would any other player.