Bots in PartyPoker's 6-max Limit games?

[Robby Box]

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Sounds like a good plan, but in point 4 the sites should still not be allowed to buy control of the project, only to be able to use participance as marketing etc., the sites have been given this trust today and have not lived up to it so no reason to easily give them the trust again.

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The idea isn't really to let them buy control, it's to buy the results. Subscribe to this service, and you can get access to all playing-pattern detectable bots details. The database can also datamine the sites, to ensure that more levels are covered. No need for volunteer data then, though, again, breaks T&C of some sites.

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Sciolist, but the question remains... IF the poker sites are interested in cracking down on Bots, why wouldn't they have an internal team (that would have access to more info than a dataminer) doing this.

The other problem, is that there isn't complete agreement between all players and the sites on even where the "line" of acceptable vs unacceptable really is, or in fact should be...

Sites allow "Decision Support" software... Players use some automation tools... at the moment, its only when the decision support software is married to (and not just living with) the automation tools, that it violates T&C.

For the benefit of those who didn't understand that... the line that Pokerstars (thx Sciolist for participating in this discussion), for example, has drawn is... computer pushes fold/bet/raise not acceptable... live human pushes fold/bet/raise acceptable, no matter (almost) how that decision was arrived at.

Side comment... I hear there are a few hundred former CS people in India looking for minimal wages + %commission to push buttons... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]


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I think that this is an excellent point!

If somebody knows they are within the T&C of a site to run the BOT "brain", push the buttons themselves and win 1.5BB/100 at 10/20 on XX tables, they will do so.

I think that the poker sites need to re-examine the allowing of odds calculators.

Whilst recognising that an off the shelf calculator is useless as a "brain", anyone getting hold of a decent profile for one of these can potentially win money pressing the buttons themselves.

Over to you Stars, Party and FTP [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]