What is a bot?

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i was playing poker on poker stars one night and made some questionable calls and wins there was one player that was calling me a bot what is a BOT he was telling other players not to play when i was playing not too sure what is a bot can anybody tell what he was meaning
 
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A bot is basically a computer program that sits at the table for you and plays according to a certain set of guidelines that are pre set.

For example lets say I have a bot, I created it myself. Lets say when I play poker I always 4 bet AK but then flat a 5 bet.... I could program my bot to always do that.

While this may sound appealing to some, bots are really easily spotted and straight forward to play against usually:
 
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If he thought you were a bot, that probably means he felt you played the same cards the same way every time. If you are so predictable people think you are a bot, that may be a problem. Not to say this is what happened. Maybe he was just being a jerk. However, most bots are very predictable once you figure them out. Bots are computer programs, and play the same way all of the time. Most good players can spot this, and either avoid it, or take advantage of it. So if he thought you were a bot, chances are he found you to be predictable.
 
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Basically yea a bot is put in by the site not to much to worry about unless ofcourse you keep losing to 3 outers in which case not cool.

jblocher 667 is a very lucky number by the way, ;)
(the number post you are on)
 
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A bot is basically a computer program that sits at the table for you and plays according to a certain set of guidelines that are pre set.

For example lets say I have a bot, I created it myself. Lets say when I play poker I always 4 bet AK but then flat a 5 bet.... I could program my bot to always do that.

While this may sound appealing to some, bots are really easily spotted and straight forward to play against usually:

Not the bots that play strong hands and raise or call all the way.
 
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he thinks you were programmed

if you think somebody you are playing against, it´s aking the same movements with the same cards

but sometimes is because you are betting strange numbers, for instance you should raise a third and the pot is 500, so you go 166, which is what a bot will do, but people like to behave like them, so instead of betting, say, 150 or 200, they bet 166, acting like bots
 
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The bot is a program (automatic) that is programmed to do certain functions, good boatman always seem to tell anyone who always plays all in every hand (fish) so that must be why you say bot.
 
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Never had that problem before maybe he was just mad. Oh well let them think what they want.
 
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They are put in by the sites. Watch out for them!! They are easy to spot however if you are good.
 
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bots on Stars? not likely... on other networks some skins have them to start games but they all have same start screenname and a number. bot10454... paddy10324, titan14030, bet36511414. You can find information about it on terms and conditions of the skin, usually the conditions that skin promise is that the bot not gonna be a winning bot. The bots are hated by players but good to increase traffic, so... most skins say they actively chase bots and ban them - to please players - but in reality most of them tolerate them because they increase trafic/revenue :listen:
 
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bot is short for robot. an computer program that plays fully automated for you. It can be recognized by it doing to same actions everytime.
 
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Is it true that a bot will not or can not chat? I have been accused of being a bot before too. I think it is just that some players are sure online poker is rigged. Especially when they are losing!
 
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They say that the new bots have access to all your past hands and how you played them.

Others say that the new bots have access to micro code and can tell which hands they are gonna win or lose.

After seeing someone go all in with a horrible hand and catching two of the bottom cards over an over pair I'm starting to believe it.

I think they use them for the freerolls because they don't really want to give away free money to any of the players so they just have the freerolls to attract players but really they have no chance of winning.

I see this allot in the New Player 100K Qualifiers. They use them because they can use the excuse that its probably a new player and really doesn't know that you should fold 2 3 off suit to ace king 9 on the flop when someone pushes all their chips in. And then somehow the cards are runner runner 2's


I've seen it happen with such bad cards that you think I can understand if he raises to try and bluff, but when someone calls with no pair and no draw and catches runner runner, it's a little suspicious.

I've watched these players play after they do it. And for most of them I see them do it at least three or four other times without losing any significant amount of chips.


The best is when a small stack is already all in when they do it and you can see the horrible hand they have and watch them flop a boat.
 
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They say that the new bots have access to all your past hands and how you played them.

Others say that the new bots have access to micro code and can tell which hands they are gonna win or lose.

After seeing someone go all in with a horrible hand and catching two of the bottom cards over an over pair I'm starting to believe it.

I think they use them for the freerolls because they don't really want to give away free money to any of the players so they just have the freerolls to attract players but really they have no chance of winning.

I see this allot in the New Player 100K Qualifiers. They use them because they can use the excuse that its probably a new player and really doesn't know that you should fold 2 3 off suit to ace king 9 on the flop when someone pushes all their chips in. And then somehow the cards are runner runner 2's


I've seen it happen with such bad cards that you think I can understand if he raises to try and bluff, but when someone calls with no pair and no draw and catches runner runner, it's a little suspicious.

I've watched these players play after they do it. And for most of them I see them do it at least three or four other times without losing any significant amount of chips.


The best is when a small stack is already all in when they do it and you can see the horrible hand they have and watch them flop a boat.

To add to your comments (which I have reason to believe could be true), I've been profiling some of the players that were making such plays and lucking out with runners. Guess what, they don't exist in OPR. :eek:
 
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They say that the new bots have access to all your past hands and how you played them.
Certainly, for the more advanced ones this is true.

Others say that the new bots have access to micro code and can tell which hands they are gonna win or lose.
Certainly not. This is rigtard theory stuff. There is no code (let alone microcode, whomever said that obv doesn't know what that term means) that can tell you which hands are going to win or lose. With the exception of PokerStars, the only major site with a static shuffle, the next card is changing many times per second so the timing of player actions will determine the next card to be dealt, even the server itself doesn't know until then. And for Stars, the shuffled deck is data -- not code -- that is randomly generated before each hand and exists only within the servers RAM for the duration of a single hand. It's not accessible by anything but the server shuffle process.

Bots are certainly real and the advanced ones can be nuisance enough, but no more than a solid reg which you would typically avoid anyway, so the panic they seem to generate among online players is largely overwraught and exaggerated.

No need to being rigtard theories in to make them look more scary than they really are. There are far more things to be concerned about than bots. People just cling to any excuse to explain their results.
 
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