Stars catches a bot and it's........my mom

[Gregatron]

It's a little late for April fool's, so hmmmmmm...

This is really weird. As others have mentioned, the only logical answer is that yr mom either has something crazy on her computer. It might be a virus or worm of some sort that tries to hack into Stars -- but I'm pulling this straight out of my ass as I don't know how possible that is.

Perhaps she accidentally DL'd some poker bot while Googling something about poker. Like "Win Hold'em" maybe? She clicked on the first thing she saw and accidentally downloaded something? I know it's wild speculation, but if yr mom is as computer illiterate as you say, it is a plausible longshot.

The only other thing I can think of is that Stars got a little trigger happy with suspicion with someone multi-tabling nano-limit games. "Why would someone savy enough to multi-table play nano games? They MUST be testing a bot!" I would like to think more of Stars than that.

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Here's 99% likely what happened.

Your mom was surfing the internet looking for poker tips. She ran across one of those "see your opponents' hole cards!" sites and accidentally downloaded something that set off the flags.

That combined with the fact that she's 6-tabling nanolimits (wtf, btw?) must be what they're looking at.

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Ha! You beat me to it!

[Hoopster81]

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EDIT: even if some people doubt the story, perhaps some of the people chiming in on this thread who have actually met me, albeit briefly, an vouch for me to some extent...seriously: i wouldn't have wasted my time or anyone else's posting half-truths.)

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no [censored].

Anyone who thinks that seriously needs a reality check.

[ChoicestHops]

This is pretty frightening. They wont give you a reasonable proof for closing the account but are certain that your mom is botting the micro limits..

[primetime32]

Am i going to be the first one here questioning this story? Who here has a mom that first plays poker and second multitables.

I don't think stars pulled this out of their arse.

[tagtastic]

Okay here's what I think happened:

1. You mom somehow got to multi-tabling, but instead of knowing the game or whatever, she simply clicked buttons without any thought to her cards or previous action in the hand at all. This could be seen as a bot with seemingly random actions (that "thought" for the same amount of time everytime since there was no actual thinking involved - kinda like playing a slot machine).

2. (Much more likely) her account or computer has been compromised and someone else was doing this "botting" through her computer or another on her account. Computer Illiterate people + monetary transactions on the computer = trouble. They are sitting ducks for phishers, trojans, backdoors, etc.

[Dendrite]

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I don't believe this story for one second.

Post the emails.

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[illogical]

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Am i going to be the first one here questioning this story? Who here has a mom that first plays poker and second multitables.

I don't think stars pulled this out of their arse.

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6-tabling $1/$2 limit I might understand but for a recreational player to do this at the .02 cent tables is just so unbelievable to me.

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Am i going to be the first one here questioning this story? Who here has a mom that first plays poker and second multitables.

I don't think stars pulled this out of their arse.

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My mom plays poker. Its sick.

[destroBU]

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Am i going to be the first one here questioning this story? Who here has a mom that first plays poker and second multitables.

I don't think stars pulled this out of their arse.

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6-tabling $1/$2 limit I might understand but for a recreational player to do this at the .02 cent tables is just so unbelievable to me.

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I have a hard time imagining anyone, especially a 57-year old mother, would even enjoy 6-tabling nanolimit poker. In fact, that may actually be my personal hell.

I don't know what really happened, but I would also bet a large amount of money that we aren't getting the whole story.

Even the trojan theory is a big stretch to me. Either the mom was screwing around with something she shouldn't have been screwing with, or ... something worse.