Robots, a challenge for poker rooms

A few posts published on the famous Twotwo poker forum would have been enough to launch the controversy. A player admitted to having cheated on a poker room using automatic game software. The player notably boasted of having pocketed more than $ 30,000 in less than 6 months. The post was taken very seriously by the conversation participants and ed the managers of the room. The use of a bot on a poker room is not a first in the world of online poker. Poker rooms are currently unable to block these software, but they promise new measures to counter the phenomenon.

Robots, a threat to players

Robots have appeared on poker rooms for over 10 years. Indeed, small computer geniuses are developing software to play the perfect online game. These software is very profitable because it can play 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, are never tired, do not make an error and always make the right decision based on the probabilities of earnings. The poker rooms obviously reacted by explicitly prohibiting the use of software. However, a rule in a terms and conditions page is not enough to stop fraudsters. Recently, he is a player who anonymously recognized having used a bot on a room in the Winning Poker Network network. The player explained that he has circumvented the system by using the bot less than 6 hours a day, changing tables and using the live cat at regular interval. Tactics used so as not to attract the attention of other players.

The rooms promise a counterattack

If the use of bots is nothing new for poker rooms, the leaders of the rooms must act quickly to calm the anger of the players. Indeed, if poker experienced strong growth in the early 2000s, a scandal can today be fatal for most poker rooms. Industry officials have therefore been committed to identifying the use of bots with new tools. Phil Nagy, owner of Winning Poker Network, notably announced that " Heads were going to fall ”. If the use of bots will certainly not be able to completely eradicate, it is to be feared that many real players' accounts are closed as a preventive basis. We remember that Pokerstars had undergone an attack on Bots on his Omaha tables in 2015. The fraudsters had pocketed the tidy sum of $ 1.5 million by plumming the players on the sit & go. The online poker giant had Strongly reacted by entering the gains of the suspect accounts. From Pokerstars has updated its software to monitor the use of robots on user computers. For the time being, the installation of "spy" software by the poker rooms seems to be the only possible way to ensure the safety of the players. That said, this solution will sooner or later be exceeded ...