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I have just read the site for a little while ...

This is a much bigger problem than I imagined...



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my sentiments exactly.

it's not a huge problem now - but it's growing.

I saw one poster who's a WPT player who plays live poker for big cash buyins - he is also a "closet botter" i.e. he has mulitple accounts with different usernames that he runs his bots on anonymously - another poster claims to make $50k a year running 6 bots 24/7 365 - where is that $50k coming from??

Soon there will come a time when there are more new signups to pokersites on average that are winning pro bots - than there are fish - once we hit that point it's all downhill.

Bots are continually improving - once they improve faster than the fish do - once there are more of them than there are fish then the entire economy of online poker will hit a very quick decline.

Ray and his customers seem to be completely blind to this - and they accuse us of being Ostriches.

I think right now in poker site land everything looks rosy. the customer base is growing profits are up - what will happen when the majority of the clueless public become aware than perhaps as much as 25% of the players they are playing are bots (maybe more) and abandon online poker for being unfair???

The poker sites won't take proactive action imo until their bottom line starts hurting - and by then it'll be like closing the stable door after the horse has been made into burgers I think.

Online Poker is a bit like the Goose that lays golden eggs. Poker botting is doing much the same thing I think as farmers do to Foie Gras geese.

I hate to sound like the voice of doom and all that - but I think we need to get this stuff out in the open and come up with some solution that benefits everyone - cos the botters aren't going to stop - the sites cannot police things the way they say they can - and I think that if some compromise isn't reached at some point in the next year or so then online poker might not be here the way it is now much longer.

Pokers a bit like a trickle up economy - the fish are the roots - they feed the beginners - the beginners feed the next people up and so on - wipe out the fish and the whole house of cards(sic) crashes.