Bots in PartyPoker's 6-max Limit games?

[jukofyork]

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For instance...sites could take screen shots (if they already don't), but there would be a privacy uproar. They could send no hand histories at all or those with no names. They could shift cards and buttons round the screen, change colours, send captchas or logic tests. They could attempt to prevent/detect all applications that read the screen and control the mouse. They could insist on all players winning over $5k to have a webcam running. They could send an rep to your home to watch how you 10 table $2000 NL and win 10BB/100 per table, or else they close your account...

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I think most of these are either unfeasible for the poker site or can be circumvented easily (if not automatically, then by a guy watching his "bot farm" at all times).

All the ideas about moving buttons and captchas are not as good as you may think. I would guess that it would actually become much more of a pain for the human player than for an AI system. If people can write bots to beat such high levels, then I am sure they are smart enough (or will have enough $ to employ a skilled helper) to be able to come up with very robust machine vision systems.

The idea of insisting a WebCam views you as you play could work though. I can't see any easy way around that, and they cost so little these days that the site could provide a USB WebCam for free. This is by far the best idea I have heard (yet) in response to the bot problem... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]