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Old 08-02-2007, 03:16 PM
ChipFerFree ChipFerFree is offline
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Default Re: Pokerbots, the truth from the source

Only salient thing for me in this post is really the ecosystem concept.

I believe OP is correct in assuming the casino dislikes extreme winners regardless of whether they are human or software.

If it upsets the natural balanced flow of the revenues from those that they want to lose more slowly (don't scare the fish off) to those that should not be winning as fast -- aka outside some actuarially derived number of standard deviations from the norm -- it's bad for business.

Wow am I rambling now?

Here's a real example -- Party Poker once shut my account down when I'd won 13 consecutive SNG's. These were not the little 6ers I'm playing now -- they were 50s 100s and 200s.

They sent me a message that said basically -- yer account has been closed because we suspect that you are either using player profiling or automated software to attain your current win rate. I WAS using PokerProphecy -- hardly a significant advantage, and simply getting more lucky than normal.

I had to promise them I wouldn't use PP anymore and send them a copy of my DL with a fat apology before they would open me back up. I was freaking out. I literally begged them to open it back up.

They did reopen it and I guess the only reason I mention this is that it seems like a combo of what I think OP's original statement might be -- Casino doesn't care if yer a fantastically great player or equipped with dyno software -- don't win outside some calculated high end norm or you jeopardize our business.

It even seems almost reasonable...
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