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Hi WoV members. Been awhile since my last post. Crazy busy grinding away at the job. And it's been way too long since I've had a vacation let alone a Vegas vacation.

As I contemplate the meaning of life and try to find moral redemption at a roulette table, it'd be nice to be able to play some online poker and not have to face a Bot or deal with a site that steals your money for whatever reason (fraud, ponzi, you won too much etc.).

A lot of sites seem to have issues with Bots, delayed payouts, etc. What's your take on the situation? Are there legit sites or is it all a scam? I'd be more comfortable if a big casino in a regulated state had a fully up and running site, but this isn't available nationally. And even then, the fact that you can't see your opponent face to face should give you pause.

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Hi WoV members. Been awhile since my last post. Crazy busy grinding away at the job. And it's been way too long since I've had a vacation let alone a Vegas vacation.

As I contemplate the meaning of life and try to find moral redemption at a roulette table, it'd be nice to be able to play some online poker and not have to face a Bot or deal with a site that steals your money for whatever reason (fraud, ponzi, you won too much etc.).

A lot of sites seem to have issues with Bots, delayed payouts, etc. What's your take on the situation? Are there legit sites or is it all a scam? I'd be more comfortable if a big casino in a regulated state had a fully up and running site, but this isn't available nationally. And even then, the fact that you can't see your opponent face to face should give you pause.

I don't really have any good advice for dealing with Bots online. My only advice would be.....

If you can't beat them, join them.

Just asking, mainly out of ignorance.....

On line, if there were 4 pros and a 'bot', does the bot reliably beat the pros?

If I wanted to use a 'bot', is it easy to do so?

Who 'sells' bot programs?

How would an opponent possibly know he was playing against a bot?

I too would like to find moral redemption at a roulette table but casinos that attack lucky players will also attack lucky bots.

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Just asking, mainly out of ignorance.....

On line, if there were 4 pros and a 'bot', does the bot reliably beat the pros?

If I wanted to use a 'bot', is it easy to do so?

Who 'sells' bot programs?

How would an opponent possibly know he was playing against a bot?

Those are some good questions I would like to know more about this as well. 2+2 it's probably the best place to get answers to those questions assuming someone had a serious interest.

Personally, I don't know anybody nowadays who uses or runs a bot online. I met a few people from the past they claim they were using Bots in small stakes limit poker with success making a few bucks an hour. Certainly they're much more advanced by now.


I seem to get spam emails occasionally for purchasing a poker bot .

I'm sure with a little bit of Googling you can get more information I guess the hard part would be trying to separate fact from fiction.

I won't post a link but you can Google shanky Technologies they offer a commercial poker bots for around $150 a year. From what I understand they are the leading commercial bots available, they seem to be Plug and Play and usable on multiple sites. People claim they win using these bots, but I have no idea if that's true or not, but I would tend to believe it to be true.

This is from 2016

https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/showthread.php?13153-Confessions-of-a-botter

I stopped playing online when I kept a record of how flops were coming down. I recorded a thousand seen flops, regardless of whether I was in the hand or not.I am not a stat man, but can tell you that on 1000 flops, a pair hit in 396 out of the 1000 recorded hands. I recorded this because subconciously I thought it was odd how often pairs hit. The only other stat I kept up with was all in situations with an overpair vs two undercards. The two undercards won 177 times out of the 410 hands I recorded. Both in my opinion were statistical improbabilities. In those cases, many times it wasnt an "all in because I am almost out of chips" play, it was a "I have 10-J offsuit, so I will reraise against pocket aces and win" type of play.

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I stopped playing online when I kept a record of how flops were coming down. I recorded a thousand seen flops, regardless of whether I was in the hand or not.I am not a stat man, but can tell you that on 1000 flops, a pair hit in 396 out of the 1000 recorded hands. I recorded this because subconciously I thought it was odd how often pairs hit. The only other stat I kept up with was all in situations with an overpair vs two undercards. The two undercards won 177 times out of the 410 hands I recorded. Both in my opinion were statistical improbabilities. In those cases, many times it wasnt an "all in because I am almost out of chips" play, it was a "I have 10-J offsuit, so I will reraise against pocket aces and win" type of play.

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None of those sites even offer that kind of Poker.

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None of those sites even offer that kind of Poker.

I am guessing he is referring to Bovada.

I recently posted in another thread or maybe it was this thread that I was involved in hands that had quads in something like 12 hands in 7 hours of playing 4 tables, so in 28 hour I saw 12 quads between me and my opponent and that does not count other hands that I was not involved in since I was multy tabling. And this was just last month while in Pennsylvania so it isnt even an offshore situation.

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I am guessing he is referring to Bovada.

I recently posted in another thread or maybe it was this thread that I was involved in hands that had quads in something like 12 hands in 7 hours of playing 4 tables, so in 28 hour I saw 12 quads between me and my opponent and that does not count other hands that I was not involved in since I was multy tabling. And this was just last month while in Pennsylvania so it isnt even an offshore situation.

Oh yes, I guess Bovada doesn't show up for me since my location is in Nevada. No Bovada in Nevada, go figure.

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I stopped playing online when I kept a record of how flops were coming down. I recorded a thousand seen flops, regardless of whether I was in the hand or not.I am not a stat man, but can tell you that on 1000 flops, a pair hit in 396 out of the 1000 recorded hands. I recorded this because subconciously I thought it was odd how often pairs hit. The only other stat I kept up with was all in situations with an overpair vs two undercards. The two undercards won 177 times out of the 410 hands I recorded. Both in my opinion were statistical improbabilities. In those cases, many times it wasnt an "all in because I am almost out of chips" play, it was a "I have 10-J offsuit, so I will reraise against pocket aces and win" type of play.

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When you say "a pair hit in 396 out of the 1000 hands" does that mean:
a) your two cards (folded or not) made a pair, two pair or trips on the flop?
b) amongst the players who did not fold, one or more player made a pair, two pair or trips on the flop?
c) at least one of the players who did not fold were dealt a pair for their hole cards in 396 out of the 1000 hands?

When you say: "in situations with an overpair vs two undercards, the two undercards won 177 times out of the 410 hands I recorded," what does that mean?
a) Were these situations always two players that stayed after the flop -one with a high pair, and the other with two unpaired lower cards?
b) OR, were these situations in which two players (or more?) went to showdown, and a player with lower unpaired cards beat a player with an "overpair" 177 out of 410 times?