Should we even worry about poker bots online?

[cyorg]

i think the bots will only be effective on micro/low limit tables. a bot will have no clue if someone is bluffing or drawing, they just play there own cards. i may be wrong but thats the way i understand them to be.

[nnoobi]

Bots scare away the fish.

Because the poker application is installed on the client PC (and has full administrator priviledges on that PC), when push comes to shove, 'Bot Detection and 'Bot Avoidance will be too difficult to overcome.

If the Poker sites were very serious about Bot detection and avoidance, the only way a computer could play would be to have someone data enter in a hand as it is being played into a separate computer, have that computer make a decision, and then click the correct button.

Currently, Party does many things that are 'bot friendly. One day that will probably change.


rabbit

[Nick-Zack]

The big problem is going to come several generations of bot from now. When some genius designs a bot that integrates Poker Tracker stats into its decision process then we have a problem.

[Cheeseweasel]

I think that you're looking at the situation from the proper perspective.

I've authored a bot program which I've tested by 4-tabling limit holdem for 100,000 continuous hands. Without rakeback, it showed a small profit.

I can't speak for other bot handlers, but my intention is not to reverse engineer Poki, feed him with Pokertracker data and turn him loose on the online poker community (which, by the way, would not be difficult to do). I just want to have one of my bots playing at every low limit table on the internet, playing breakeven poker just for rakeback.

Right now I'm directing my energies towards a major casino hack. In the past I've built, programmed, and used concealable blackjack and roulette prediction computers. This is a project that will far eclipse those in scope. It will be the best hack that you've never heard of.

After that (in five to eight months) I'll be concentrating my energy on developing my next generation rakebot. It will be impossible to detect robotic activity. As a matter of fact, after alpha and beta testing, you are all invited to the public unveiling. I'll give you plenty of time to drop your snitch kites to the appropriate online poker room where it will be tested so that they can bring the full force of their mighty robotic detection measures to bear upon this grave problem.

From my warped point of view, I think that bludgeoning the tables for 2BB/hr. * 16 tables * n thousand 2+2'ers has a much more deletrious effect on the fish population than I will have 300-tabling for rakeback. But what do I know? Flame away!