Official Full Tilt Poker Response to Bot Thread

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Guys, we should all realize by now that a poker site's self-interest in the bot area is different from that of the players. The poker sites want the rake, and there's no better kind than automatic bot rake. On the other hand, Joe Average doesn't want to play against bots (or multi-tabling semi-bots, but that's another matter).

So what's the end result, given the context of a less-than-ethical company? It's easy: Announce a policy of no bots, claim aggressive enforcement - and don't look very hard. Except, of course, when it's time for a bot to cash out big; just as for humans, there are definitely times when enforcement can be a nice profit center.

I think that's exactly what we see at FT, and nobody that's been around here for any length of time should really expect anything different.

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QFT.

This is the major problem with us expecting the sites to police themselves. They really do not suffer at all when people collude and cheat against other players. Unfortunately there is no easy way for poker players to punish the sites for ignoring these issues. Organizing a 2+2 boycott is ineffective because it will just take some good players away from the site and make it easier for the remaining good players and bots.

We can try to organize a smear campaign against FTP and any other sites which are obviously ignoring this issue. This will bring negative publicity to online poker and hurt all of our bottom line, but it might force the sites to start taking the issue more seriously.