Poker bots were a hot issue a few years ago, when everyone doubting the overall fairness of the online poker industry brought the issue up at least once. The ripples the problem had caused back then have since died off and much more important threats (like data mining) have taken its place nowadays.
The poker-bot related allegations had been diverse and fairy colorful back then though. From players being accused of running poker bots to poker rooms being accused of using poker bots to secure their critical player liquidity, the accusations ran a wide gamut indeed. The reason why there’s much less talk of poker bots these days is that the public has somewhat wisened up to the issue. No longer are poker bots believed to be capable of consistently beating human players, although it has been proven that a properly programmed bot can in fact secure an advantage over some of the best human players the game has ever seen. In this above statement though, a special highlight should be put on “properly programmed”. You see, any programmer can make a piece of software that plays poker. The only problem is, being successful at online poker is infinitely more complex than just being able to play the game. Sometimes the brightest players suffer bad beats. There’s a great deal of flexibility involved as well as opponent –reading: things a computer will never really excel at. The poker bot that I mentioned above, the one that managed to beat human professional players, had been programmed by equally skilled professionals. If you pick up a poker bot (which some people so eagerly sell for around $20 online) you’ll still have to program it. If your skills are limited, your poker bot won’t be able to rustle up a whole lot of money for you at the table either. Needless to say, the majority of poker bots sold online are scams. They don’t work and I’ve even heard horror stories about poker bots losing entire bankrolls to human opponents.
To top it all off, online poker rooms have ways to track poker bot activity. First of all, when a user downloads the room’s free software and installs it, he installs software hooks that keep track of the activity on his peripherals (keyboard/mouse). A special dll is also injected which can keep an eye on the applications running on the player’s computer and which can detect fraudulent botting activity.
The best weapon in the hands of poker room security specialists is the hand history though. By analyzing hand histories, fraudulent activities can be discovered and tracked down.
Of course, one can use a laptop attached to another laptop to fool the injected Dlls and the software hooks as well, but that still leaves the issue of programming the poker bot and keeping it competitive. Online poker is continuously changing, and because they’re denied the possibility (and the ability) to make use of the psychological factors involved in the game, poker bots can never really hope to compete with real players on equal footings, at least not in regular poker cash games.
If you want to make money at the poker table, the shortest route to success does not lead through botting. Sign up to a rakeback deal or to a poker prop deal, study the game in-depth and from as many different angles as possible, and practice. If you’re looking to create a competitive poker bot, you’re going to have to do all this anyway. Cheaters don’t make much use of poker bots either. They have far more efficient ways to trick their peers out of their money than botting.
Author Resource:-
Steve Larson, an online poker player from Canada, visit his site from some great poker prop deals.
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