[TheScientist]

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Yeah, you can write a minimalist bot and play micros, I guess, and be easily profitable. Originally, these guys wanted to do this for $3-$6 FR w/ some opponent modeling.

Even good programmers would have to go to great efforts. You have to manage all of the accounts, etc. How about start a normal business or pursue other opportunities as opposed to writing a somewhat complex bot? These are my thoughts now.

You also have to play the whole cat and mouse game once bot detection gets better and/or more serious, updating interface code for software changes, etc.

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Yeah, that was originally my idea too, play medium stakes games on many different sites, with many different computers, for many hours. A goldmine, if you think about it.

In practice, it's not so easy, but it can be done. (If the observations in this thread are correct) Luckily, the more easily exploitable full ring games are down in popularity and 6-max and NL are, in my opinion, a much more difficult environment to place a bot in.

I am wondering what methods the poker sites will have to use to protect people in the future though, it seems as if things will probably have to start getting fairly invasive (ex; taking periodic screen shots, disabling IM programs, complex analysis of play patterns, who knows.)