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Your comparison of a poker bot army to a computerized trading strategy is totally spurious and makes it clear that you have no concern for the ethics of poker or for the longevity of the online game. At best you are painfully ignorant and at worst calculating scum.
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1. Clearly the most "intelligent response" to date but dear man feel free to PM me and I will give you my background, resources and history, none of it is SCUM
2. I have been involved in poker and investment banks for a long time and am well aware of ethics and attempts to grow the game properly. This idea actually came from several top pros and a flawed attempt to set up a new poker tour that would be owned by players and funded by investors and sponsors I had found and capital from my own pocket....problem is there is such a saturation of 2nd rate poker tours and poker on tv that we decided there was no room currently for the concept or enough upside with the current stack of live pros.
3. The longevity of the online game to my knowledge has only been threatened by a semi-fascist government that to my recollect was VOTED in TWICE, not by me. I do not play on line but I have seen literally hundreds of P/L figures of online players and many of them look like high quality CTA type P/Ls, beaut little gentle upsloping equity curves...THAT is of definite interest.
4. I have traded computerized strategies in global markets for 17 years and was personally NEVER in favor of bots but I can assure you they are out there currently and growing in number but I did not know until now after several quality responses that they were not allowed...
A poker fund would actually ADD quality and quantity to the online game and additional pools of capital. YOU call us scum with no regard for online poker yet at the 1st sign of trouble in USA did Party-Poker-Gaming stay and use their vast capital to fight (taken from online rake from people like you.) NO they took that capital they had made in USA and disappeared back to Spiv-ville plus add in the other piss-weak undercapitalized sites that went under (Boyds and co) and the Neteller fiasco etc and there is clearly few in the indsutry that actually care about the PLAYER.
No we have real capital and real quality ideas and the reason to present them in this forum is to get responses that might allow us to grow a quality product that can then spawn ideas that benefit all of poker. I for one certainly do not need to scam or scum or anyone or need anyone's capital etc.
All the best
