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There is actually a business behind bot-poker-player. I have played about 20k tables Texas Hold'em Double or Nothing and stopped playing after 6 months with a
by moccajoghurt 14y ago
There is actually a business behind bot-poker-player.
I have played about 20k tables Texas Hold'em Double or Nothing and stopped playing after 6 months with a profit of 1000$.
I have met quite a few bots and an experienced player will most likely recognize such bots. However it took a while to realize it and I had to look up the stats in order to see it.
The algorithm the bot used was really simple. In poker terms you'd call the bot-player a rock. He bets when he has good cards and will always go all-in whatever happens after the flop.
You'd think that this algorithm is too simple to be succesful but that's wrong. There are two factors that make this strategy profitable:
1. If you play on low limits the players usually play incredibly aggressive and will nearly always lose a lot of money whenever your bot bets.
2. Even if you have a winrate of only 55% (which is necessary to not make a minus, because you never play for free, there is a fee for each table) you will make profit because of the cashback your online poker provider will give you after each month.
This is also why you have to play a lot of tables. The bot played about 800 tables each day, which is insane. However it does increase the cashback and the more you play, the more money will get each month.
- aneth4 14y agoSeems like a rather easily detectable bot, playing 800 tables a day and playing predictably. I thought all poker sites banned such bots. Is that just a lie?
- moccajoghurt 14y agoWell I think that depends on the poker provider. Titan-Poker didn't.
- relix 14y agoSince there were bots the poker sites have started detecting bots. If a player played every day exactly 800 tables (or exactly e.g. 8 hours), it would be instantly banned for being a bot. Bots have a lot of randomization now to make it appear human: sleep randomly to emulate "thinking", click on different parts of the button, randomly move the cursor around but still humanly, click next to the button, move the cursor on one button before moving it to another button to actually click, and so on...
- robinwarren 14y agoI pointed this out to a guy I used to work with when he was creating a bot. I correctly guessed he'd not allowed for the fact someone might spot a player with sub 1 sec response times who always clicked on the exact same pixel etc. He added some random waits in here and then, every now and then you'd hear a flushing sound from his computer as his bot 'went to the toilet'.
- btilly 14y agoSites try, but can fail. My favorite story was someone playing 120 tables simultaneously, who was verified to be human. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1899310 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1899310 for discussion on that one.