Is this idea stupid, illegal, or maybe both?

SixthSense · #1 08-06-2007, 04:59 PM

Create a new *US-Based* quasi-poker site. Users don't come to play poker, but to work as "professional poker bot testers". Each table will have 1 poker bot, and 2-8 "testers". To encourage testers to play their best, they are paid back in chips won (and must pay entrance fees = starting chips).

MightyA6 · #2 08-06-2007, 05:19 PM

If I get this right, you will;
*Pay players to play with your bots to see if they work!
*Make them win chips if they win
*???

I don't get it! If you expect someone to pay you to be able to play with your bots, you're ... different!
The bot thing is not illegal itself, but it is against the rules to use it at all(?) poker sites.

If you are going to;
* make player pay you and they think that they will play against only real players
* You really make them play vs. your bot
* They cant cash out, only cash in..

Then I guess it's not legal and pretty stupid.

wmspringer · #3 08-06-2007, 06:01 PM

I think it means it would be a regular poker site, with one bot at each table, but he's pretenting it's a bot-testing site to get around the anti-poker laws. (Thus the quotes)

scott1 · #4 08-06-2007, 06:04 PM

Both

pig4bill · #5 08-07-2007, 02:33 AM

Juries are generally stupid, but not that stupid.

kimchi · #6 08-07-2007, 08:06 AM

Since my banking is done from the UK, I haven't had the need to become familiar with the US anti-gambling laws.

If i understand them correctly, it's the restrictions on depositing/withdrawing that will prove to be the dildo in the works - not the actual gambling process.

Either that or OP is nth leveling

SixthSense · #7 08-09-2007, 03:38 PM

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Since my banking is done from the UK, I haven't had the need to become familiar with the US anti-gambling laws.

If i understand them correctly, it's the restrictions on depositing/withdrawing that will prove to be the dildo in the works - not the actual gambling process.

Either that or OP is nth leveling

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What is nth leveling?

The catalyst for this idea was a friend of mine who used to play putt-putt golf professionally (yes, I know it sounds funny). They would all pay their entrance fees, and the winner would take home the prize made from those fees. To me it just seemed like gambling, made legal through the guise of calling them "pros". I guess it just goes back to the "game of skill" debate.