Robots would easily be picked up by smart players and people can use computer systems to detect it... not only that but house players wouldn't work because people would begin to recognize names and late fill ins and people who never ever respond...
Bots are illegal and would be caught in a second...
I have played around with poker bots and have seen them in action. I have never played them in real money situations.
I have used bots extensively to play Blackjack, roulette, Pai Gow, Caribbean stud, Red Dog, and about 100 different types of slots. I was never caught. They were programmed to be indetectable and could mimick human play as well as any human with bathroom breaks and random pauses. I was using bots 24/7
I have used bots extensively to play Blackjack, roulette, Pai Gow, Caribbean stud, Red Dog, and about 100 different types of slots. I was never caught. They were programmed to be indetectable and could mimick human play as well as any human with bathroom breaks and random pauses. I was using bots 24/7
Let me ask you the question I ask everyone in this situation...
Why would an online poker room ever cheat and use their own players?
They don't give a shit who wins and loses they just want as many people playing as possible because then the rake and the tourney fees are higher. Why would they risk there billionaire dollar business to win a couple sit n goes every day? They wouldn't...
now about people and bots... It is very tough to get a poker bot passed software such as Poker Stars and Full Tilt. You have to be ahead of their technology and most likely you won't be. Also if you get caught they can come after you. And take everything you have won...
That second part ties into the fact that poker sites don't want bots so they do whatever it takes to eliminate them because if they get caught having people with bots there reputation is tarnished and lose clients...
Why would an online poker room ever cheat and use their own players?
They don't give a shit who wins and loses they just want as many people playing as possible because then the rake and the tourney fees are higher. Why would they risk there billionaire dollar business to win a couple sit n goes every day? They wouldn't...
now about people and bots... It is very tough to get a poker bot passed software such as Poker Stars and Full Tilt. You have to be ahead of their technology and most likely you won't be. Also if you get caught they can come after you. And take everything you have won...
That second part ties into the fact that poker sites don't want bots so they do whatever it takes to eliminate them because if they get caught having people with bots there reputation is tarnished and lose clients...
You can no longer log in threw the same IP address and they do a scan to see if you are logged in threw a ghost IP address... If you think they haven't figured out that people do this and have not figured out ways to stop it then you are going insane...
Also to be playing three hands at once is tough and often times you will not make a monster profit. Say for instance at a 6 person sit n go for 35 dollars... I think 136 is to first and 75 is to second. You have to win the tournament every single time to get your money back... and you make 30 dollar profit... If u get first and second you make 100 dollar profit. but everytime you don't place you lose 105 dollars.... so then you have to come in first in second in the next one just to break even....
No, no.... don't word your question that way, EJ. How can it be cheating if a very small poker room, in need of traffic, pays their players (or alternatively, use programmed bots) to sit & fill up tables in hopes of getting more traffic?
It has been a while, so I'm rusty but I forget that term where people had been paid by the poker room to play at their site. They (poker sites) need to do that so potential customers do not check their site out and see only 5 tables running with just 2 people at each or something like that.
It's a marketing necessity for very small poker sites (mostly back then as in several years ago). I think people become more sensitive when they are convinced that the poker site is taking their money by clandestinely using automated bots without prior disclosure of some kind. Sticky subject, I admit. But when it comes to human players, while not represented by the poker site, but they are there to play for the poker site's sake, it "seems okay". I guess the fine line is how the human players are playing on their own money (part of requirement; not from the poker site)...
In any case, poker bots by itself are not terrible. It's simply whether we can prove that the sites are employing huge number of bots to steal our money when we truly believe we are losing our money to other human players.
* CalvinTy
Show me proof of this... Honestly... If it was that easy people would be making hundreds of thousands with bots... And would be way above Matt and other players...
People that gamble are so paranoid... It is so hard to get into stars or full tilt with artificial intelligence on your computer
