Their slogan is "Find the Poker Star in you" but this week things have taken a much more disturbing turn on the World's largest poker site - It's more like "Find the Bot at your table." This is exactly what Poker Table Ratings the largest online collector of information about online poker hands played at the big sites found playing as high as the $200 buy in tables and winning big, big money.
By not having invested in the necessary resources to have already detected these bots or possibly having already detected them and chosen to take no action, Stars has failed once again.AKingdom (Adept 2+2 Poster)
So what's next? How many undetected bots are out there? What are the experts in the industry saying? Is it safe to continue to play?
I started today looking for a story about online Bots and poker as someone had been discussing this with me recently and I found this thread on the popular Two Plus Two forums where a guy playing 80 tables of $1 double or nothing sit and go's is accused of being a bot.
At first I thought he must be then I found the video featured here. It shows a guy playing over 100 tables of double or nothing sit and go's on PokerStars.
...it get's pretty ridiculous
gnumsploitz: 100 tabling player
This to me is something that's just outright ridiculous. For one having tons of players playing too many tables takes away from the enjoyment of others. For two the ridiculous style whilst not 'profitable' in the long run is probably close enough to breakeven that it increases the 'rake trap' effect of playing these for recreational players.
So many recreational players are put off by the extreme slow playing of even the 16 tabling regulars at the $200NL 6-max level that I feel this should be tackled let alone allowing someone to fire up such a ludicrous number of tables.
