It seems so. However, notice that the average poker bot programmer is a 20-something, highly intelligent hacker and that most of them don't have all that much m

It seems so. However, notice that the average poker bot programmer is a 20-something, highly intelligent hacker and that most of them don't have all that much money. Why do they write poker bots? (a) to make money. (b) to beat the system. (c) boredom. (a) doesn't work when all the other players are also good poker bots. Botting lives from the simple fact that most poker players are shit. (b) also doesn't apply, for obvious reasons. So, now you are left with the (c)s. Those will leave when they find something more interesting. Seemed to be a good idea. Well, it's probably not. (PS: There are poker bot competitions. The bigger ones have university teams competing, the smaller ones (the ones I found via Google) usually don't get enough entrants.)