[Fedorfan]

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Disguising bot play is easier than writing a bot to play good poker. There is no way sites can keep out all good bots. Players just need to accept that they will be out there. It just means track your opponents and select them carefully.

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This is silly reasoning. I see the same type of silliness in debates about terrorism FWIW.

So what if the bot makers can do some extra work and thwart the anti-bot measures? The point is to make their life hell, and to make them do that extra work at every step. The point is that if you encourage a site to seize funds whenever they find a bot, the bot-maker has to overcome more of an overhead to become profitable.

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I agree, the counter measures can really hurt the profitability of a bot, since when caught it loses its funds in the account and now the user has to use fake names and such to resign up for the site.

Also, it would make it less likely that bots would attack the higher games, since they'd have to risk having much more money in the account to be frozen and such.