Death of internet poker!!!

[gdaily]

Hi,

if this is true, well all our happy days are gone.

www.winholdem.net

"share your cards with friends"...

[MrBatman]

I tried this bot to see if it was something to fear. And after 120 hands i can honestly say:

Give me a table full of them [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Frozen]

We NL players have alot less to fear, as far as bots are concerned.

However, this is very disturbing. From their website:

"One of the most exciting WH features is the ability to easily and conveniently share your cards with a fellow friend playing Hold'Em at the same online poker casino table. If you play Texas Hold'Em online you can be sure that other players are using various means to share their cards with one another to try and gain an advantage over you. In an online internet environment it is impossible to prevent players from card sharing. The online poker casinos would like to be able to prevent card sharing but they are powerless to stop it and they know it. Because of this simple fact of life, we at winholdem.net take the policy position of "if-you-can't-beat'em-join'em." And as such, we have done everything possible to make it simple, easy, convenient, private and safe for you to play team poker with whomever you choose from the privacy of your home."

THE SITES NEED TO BLOCK THIS SCUMBOT ASAP!

[gdaily]

Hi

I am myself not so scared about the bot part, as I am about the 'share the cards with friends' part...

/Ola

[spamuell]

See the thread about this in the General Theory forum:

Thread in General Theory forum

[BradleyT]

Nothing stops you from getting on MSN or AIM and doing that now.

[t_perkin]

This is a real shame, they could have used this program to write a genuienly useful and interesting piece of software.

I once wrote an interface to a card room (ladbrokes) which operated using screen scraping.
My conclusion was that there is a good reason that screen scraping is almost never done, it is f**king hard to do (I lecture computer science - I am a very competant programmer).
These guys have achieved it (at least to some extent, it seems a lot of people are having problems running this app)

The value of having an automated interface to poker rooms is considerable.

1/ You can build up your poker tracker database without having to be seated at the table.

2/ You can play a lot of tables at once

3/ You can play a lot of websites at once with one uniform interface.

4/ You can try and design an automated player or assistant (stat generator, dynamic link to twodimes, dynamic link to poker tracker DB etc.)

And yet they have done a lot of work and produced a piece of crap. What a pity.

Tim

[Piers]

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And yet they have done a lot of work and produced a piece of crap. What a pity.

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What do you expect from free software.

[gabyyyyy]

I hope none of you pin your millionaire hopes to this program. It is rather useful for figuring loss/win rate of a hand post flop, that is about it.

With that being said, I would not trust it to make decisions with my money.

[Jackal22]

It does not appear to be free anymore anyway. "Your license is invalid."