How to Build an Online Poker Bot

GrahamGraham
in Online Poker
Came accross this blog post from digg... pretty interesting. Think online poker bots don't exist? This guy shows otherwise:

How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 1 - Coding the Wheel

Comments

  • HobbesHobbes
    While they do exist, building a winning undetectable bot would be very difficult since sites are now moving towards CAPTCHA (Turing Numbers).

    From a purely technical chiphead point of view I am following the series.
  • philliiveyphilliivey
    meh, you can easily find poker bot sites on the net, but i would be careful posting this kinda stuff graham, you may get shut down if some employees from certain poker sites visit here.

    but other then that i used my own bot the last week getting 9 1st places, its called my brain and my feel for the game and opponents.
  • compueasecompuease Admin
    philliivey wrote: »
    meh, you can easily find poker bot sites on the net, but i would be careful posting this kinda stuff graham, you may get shut down if some employees from certain poker sites visit here.

    but other then that i used my own bot the last week getting 9 1st places, its called my brain and my feel for the game and opponents.
    Hogwash, and I don't mean about poker bots on the net.... Graham has no concerns here.. There's no monster under the bed. IE PS, FT or any other poker site has no super power to control the web or limit any of our postings....
  • philliiveyphilliivey
    lol, hogwash lol

    ya prob just a rumour but i did read that somewhere, but look at pokerstars list they have now of banned software, so they know about this stuff somehow. just worried about graham as he is a nice guy and dont want anything bad happen to him.
  • GrahamGraham
    philliivey wrote: »
    just worried about graham as he is a nice guy and dont want anything bad happen to him.

    You are joking, right? Firstly, I am not using a bot, just posting a link to a story... if they banned me for that, I would probably laugh myself to death.
  • BlondeFishBlondeFish
    After managing to read that whole page, methinks I'm gonna quit playing poker so I can go back to school - and learn how to program colluding poker bots with genetic algorithms! :wink:
  • InsaneGuyInsaneGuy
    lol didn't we get cited for court or something just for posting a link to an article of some dude cheating in the stars wcoop ? :)
  • STR82ACESTR82ACE
    InsaneGuy wrote: »
    lol didn't we get cited for court or something just for posting a link to an article of some dude cheating in the stars wcoop ? :)

    crock of crap then...crock of crap now
  • m_dolensm_dolens
    BlondeFish wrote: »
    After managing to read that whole page, methinks I'm gonna quit playing poker so I can go back to school - and learn how to program colluding poker bots with genetic algorithms! :wink:

    my sentiments exactly after reading that website.
  • UnknownUnknown
    Actually you don't really need to build your own - I bought a poker bot from <SPAM REMOVED> about 6 months ago and use it on cash games. It doesn't win every session but overall I am up a few grand.

    Sam
  • HobbesHobbes
    sworther wrote: »
    Actually you don't really need to build your own - I bought a poker bot from <spam link removed> about 6 months ago and use it on cash games. It doesn't win every session but overall I am up a few grand.

    Sam

    Nice spam post.
    I think you need to sue them for false advertising. You are only up a few grand in 6 months and yet the spam link says 750-1500 / night. You should have been up over 100k by now...lol

    GTFO
  • MonteroyMonteroy
    Interesting article (though I glazed over the techie parts that I would never understand :P).

    I certainly think bots do exist out there, but I have never been deeply concerned by them because their net effect vs a decent player is minimal.

    I am not talking the macho "I crush bots" stuff people say. I doubt they can be easily crushed compared to loose bad players who call overbets with straight draws. Likely a relatively decent player will be not too far ahead or behind the bots but they will allow more tables to be created which increases the amount of action available to target the truly bad players. In a way they are like prop players.

    Flip side is that if too many bots exist they will drain too much of the fish money, and obviously the irrational fear some have about bots may prevent some players from playing, so it certainly is in a site's interest to combat bots when possible, which most will do if it benefits their bottom line.

    Obviously bots come with a risk associated with being caught (ie: money taken), and as well not all bots are break even players, and I suspect many of the bots being sold/spammed are either junk or viruses, and those that fall for the 1500 a day pitch probably deserve the life lesson they will get when buying one.

    By the way, Cake poker tables struck me as having a lot of players who seemed to behave as bots, though they also had some of the worst players I have ever seen. I have been called a bot before as well, though usually some well placed trash talk after that changes that from "bot" to "jerk" which is much more accurate depending on the context of the situation :)
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