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I have an acquaintance who wrote one about a decade ago. He said he was profitable in small stakes play, but the average player was pretty bad then. I've played
by jeffreyrogers 5y ago
I have an acquaintance who wrote one about a decade ago. He said he was profitable in small stakes play, but the average player was pretty bad then. I've played recently and the average player seems quite a bit better now.
I would think that a pretty naive bot would do fine at lower stakes since most people there are not that disciplined, so just sticking to a basic strategy and not making obvious mistakes would probably have positive EV.
Seems unlikely that anyone is going to publish a system that currently works though.
- awb 5y agoPlus it’s illegal on every major online poker site to use a bot.
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y agoNo, it’s against EULA, there’s a very distinct difference.
- TameAntelope 5y agoI would not be surprised if there were federal laws against the use of Poker bots online.
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y agoGood luck with that. I’m sure Eastern Europeans really care about your federal laws.
- TameAntelope 5y agoGood luck with what?
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y agoAny hope of jurisdiction bound federal law preventing something on the internet which is not politically or socially charged. Hell, there’s a widespread issue of ransomware currently - certain governments overlook cyber gangs in all but the most (financially) extreme circumstances. There’s not a chance any political force would bother policing internet poker.
- TameAntelope 5y agoInternet poker is heavily regulated in the US.
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y agoSure, but that’s the government controlling a handful of well established entities, not a bunch people running bots which are basically invisible to the poker sites, even if the government cared enough to outlaw bots they couldn’t