No - because if someone had the skills to put bots in a poker game the likelihood they would have them sitting in a $10 sng is pretty close to zero.
All I'm asking is you watch one of those final tables for 10 minutes. And then check the
sharkscope of these same players. You'll see. Why they do it, I have no idea. But why a human player would play 3000 of these things in less than a year, makes you wonder even more. That kind of volume with little to no reward is not normal.
I can't believe OP actually sat around watching and taking notes in these freerolls for hours, even days.
Believe me, it didn't take days or hours. All it took was watching one final table and checking the SharkScope. If you actually pay attention to what's happening with the interaction between the obviously human players and the obvious non-human players, taking into account their statistics from SharkScope, I guarantee you will see it in just a few minutes.
Where it's hard to notice is in the middle of the tournament, where most people get knocked out. Like you said, who actually sticks around and watches the final table?
Here's just one example for you: two players on the final table had exactly the same join date, exactly the same number of tournaments played (several thousand!), exactly the same stats as far as how they do in tournaments (early, middle, late, etc). And a lot of the other final tables players or final two tables, had almost the same percentages in their stats but joined on different dates. They played the exact same last 10 tournaments, including one 10 cent buy-in to go along with all the
freerolls.
I'm telling you, just watch for a few minutes (ACR $10 freerolls). You will see very unnatural behavior. I wouldn't have believed it either, but I got curious after reading a few other threads on here about bots, which I laughed off at first, too.
So you're "ready to buy any theory" because its difficult to place in the top10 of a freeroll? Do you place in the Top10 regularly in other tournaments that have large number of entrants?
OP, I have a solution for you. DEPOSIT some $'s onto the site & learn how to play some poker! It's a fun game and if you put the time into learing how to play, you might even win a few bucks while doing so. Its not an easy go though because all of the others on your tables are basically hoping to do something somewhat simliar (although people play for different reasons but am pretty sure that most prefer to win a bit over losing)
Don't worry, I know how to play poker. I'm probably not that good, but I have studied a lot, read every book, and never had any problem beating the lower levels. I built bankrolls on every site I've ever played at from nothing. I accumulated a decent sized database on PS (200K
hands) before BF. I just came back to poker last month and was hoping to build from nothing like last time. Actually, I'm building quite well on BOL so far, but ACR is really, really hard. And now I know why. I'm just anxious to get back into the cash games at ACR because they are starting to get PS-like volume and I like to multi-table.
