I completely agree. While bots definitely do excist, a lot of people are looking for ways to excuse their gambling losses, and "bots" are definitely one of them. Its almost to the point, where I am a bit sceptical about it, when a poker site publicly announce, that now they have banned this or that many "bot accounts". This could actually sometimes just be a marketing gimmick to show people, that they are doing something good for players.
Exactly. No site is deliberately "allowing" players to cheat. The real issue is how effective or not their security efforts are. And here it should be obvious, that the biggest operators like GG Poker and pokerstars have more ressources than others. So if you play on a smaller site like ACR, then you are probably more likely to run into opponents, who cheat in one way or another. And this also becomes more likely, as you move up, since if people bother to cheat, then why would they play for the price of a cup of coffee
I agree with most of the message, but this is to address this one part that's often overlooked: 1. players at higher stakes are harder to beat and 2. bizarre play at higher stakes is much more difficult to hide than at lower stakes. That's why it makes more sense for cheaters to play more volume at lower stakes, in my opinion. Obviously not just for a cup of coffee, but say 200 of those coffees would taste pretty good. (And especially in places where that cup of coffee will go a long way towards monthly expenses.)And this also becomes more likely, as you move up, since if people bother to cheat, then why would they play for the price of a cup of coffee
In the past poker bots were not good enough to beat the best human players, so they could only be used in soft games. Back in the day I played a lot with bots in Zynga Poker play money games, and those bots were terrible and pretty easy to beat, once you figured them out. However this has changed a lot today with the use of AI software. So today I would not bank on bots not being used in high stakes games, because they cant beat them.
How do bots play exactly ?^^
Bots can foresee the upcoming cards and therefore know when to bet or fold.
Its quite obvious, that a lot of people, who complain about "bots", dont even know, what they are. A bot is simply a computer program playing poker, so the owner dont need to do it themselfes. Just like there are also programs playing chess, backgammon or other skill games. And of course it makes no sense to program a computer to play poorly
Yes sure but then it should also be quite hard to detect them . That's why I say 99% of the times people complain about bots is just another encounter of a bad beatIts quite obvious, that a lot of people, who complain about "bots", dont even know, what they are. A bot is simply a computer program playing poker, so the owner dont need to do it themselfes. Just like there are also programs playing chess, backgammon or other skill games. And of course it makes no sense to program a computer to play poorly
an old post... but just wanted to mention >> BOTS don't play in 'bizarre' way. Quite the contrary. The ones I've come across in the past*, actually played in a more predictable, but aggressive style and actually were fairly tough to play against (& this was at 'coffee with a muffin' stakes... but at Starbucks)
Easier to go undetected. Easier to beat the player pool at the 'coffee' stakes.since if people bother to cheat, then why would they play for the price of a cup of coffee
99% of the time 'rookies' or 'freerollers' complain about them, it's just a statement made with zero evidence aside from them losing the hand. How many hands that they win do they suggest "BOT!"... "I was playing on a table with a couple of bots, I learned how to adjust and took down a couple of huge pots from them, putting myself in a position to go deep in the tourney" << & we hear this from that same group just about never.
