The good folks over at Purely Poker have put together a great poker bot review detailing hands on experiences with several poker bots. Here we list a few key points on several of the bots.
Winholdem
What this software allows you to do that we find so repulsive, is that it allows its owner to collude with other players online who are also in possession of this piece of kit. In other words, they disclose each other's cards. For those of you who do find the idea of cheating attractive, and are maybe tempted to rush off and obtain it from site, here are a few words of wisdom. You will not be purchasing an out of the box bot. You'll have to program it yourself, and will have to have a very good knowledge of C to do so. If you have this knowledge, you will have to spend hundreds if not thousands of hours trying to produce a workable bot. And all this for a bargain price of $200 PER ANNUM.
Texas-Holdem-Bot
Now here is a pokerbot your going to like, mainly because it is FREE! Its called Texas-Holdem-Bot, and works on the same principle as the casinorobots.com scam that we have reviewed further down the page. What we mean is, that you have to sign up for a poker site, and they receive a commission. We have nothing against this, as long as the Poker bot works, and this one does. Its an "out of the box" bot, which means you do not have to spend any time configuring it. You just open the poker site, click on the program, and away it goes. It has 2 modes, Play and Real Money. It plays quite loose in Play Mode, but if you do decide to let it loose on the Real Money tables, then you will see a big difference in its playing techniques. It also has a stop and start button, so if you just want to use it to fold your preflop hands until you get a hand that's worth playing, or up to the turn etc, then you can. If you want to review or download it, then CLICK HERE. So why not give it a try, ITS FREE! and let us know how you get on. It is a beta version, so let us know of any way you think it can be improved, and we will see what we can do. There is now a better version of this bot if you CLICK HERE
Poker Android
PokerAndroid is an automatic Hold'em playing pokerbot add on for Online Holdem Inspector. The software, PokerAndroid, automatically reads the recommended action from Online Holdem Inspector and performs the suggested action for you without any interaction on your part required. PokerAndroid allows you to observe without interaction to improve your game play for the future, clear bonus requirements faster, earn rakebacks faster and even leave the computer without having to sit out any hands.
PS. - THIS SOFTWARE IS AWESOME
SCAM ALERT: CasinoRobots
Oh! here's a nice little con you should be made aware of. casinorobots.com. Now what these clever people do is offer you free bots, on condition that you sign up for various poker and casino accounts and deposit a minimum of $50 and play the raked hands requirement. Of course YOU never receive anything from them
( well we haven't, after more than a year and countless emails we sent them without reply). But THEY of course receive a nice commission from the casino sites anywhere from $50 - $150 courtesy of you. They have been sending out authentic looking demo bots lately to lure you in. Our advice!
Thanks to Purely Poker to making us aware of this one.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Tutorial: How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 1
This is an awesome tutorial written by the good folks over at coding the wheel.
Well, I'm here to tell you that online poker bots are 100% real, and I know this because I've built one. And if I can build one, well. Anybody can build one. What's more, over the course of this multi-part article, I'll show you how. But first, a teaser (click on the image for a larger version):
Poker bots, underground online poker boiler rooms, and collusion are a reality. That doesn't mean online poker's not worth playing, just that it pays to be educated about what's possible. Furthermore, there should be public discussion regarding what to do about it because one thing's certain: computers and programming languages aren't exactly going to be getting less powerful. The rise of the poker bots is a virtual certainty. I'd like to see the major online poker venues open up their famously vague "bot detection" and "anti-collusion" strategies to public scrutiny, as cryptography and security providers learned to do years ago. The best security algorithms and techniques all have the weight of public review behind them and I don't see how online poker's any different.
Basic poker bot responsibilities
Well, I'm here to tell you that online poker bots are 100% real, and I know this because I've built one. And if I can build one, well. Anybody can build one. What's more, over the course of this multi-part article, I'll show you how. But first, a teaser (click on the image for a larger version):
Poker bots, underground online poker boiler rooms, and collusion are a reality. That doesn't mean online poker's not worth playing, just that it pays to be educated about what's possible. Furthermore, there should be public discussion regarding what to do about it because one thing's certain: computers and programming languages aren't exactly going to be getting less powerful. The rise of the poker bots is a virtual certainty. I'd like to see the major online poker venues open up their famously vague "bot detection" and "anti-collusion" strategies to public scrutiny, as cryptography and security providers learned to do years ago. The best security algorithms and techniques all have the weight of public review behind them and I don't see how online poker's any different.
Basic poker bot responsibilities
At a very high level, the poker bot is best analyzed according to the classic model of information handling: Input, Processing, Output.
You'll find that your programming tasks decompose rather nicely into these three basic stages.
Input. The input to the system is the poker client software itself, including all its windows, log files, and hand histories, as well as internal (often private) state maintained by the running executable. The goal of the input stage is to interrogate the poker client and produce an accurate model of the table state - your hole cards, names and stack sizes of your opponents, current bets, and so forth.
Processing. The processing stage runs independently of the other two stages. It's job is to take the table model assembled during the Input phase, and figure out whether to fold, check, bet, raise, or call. That's it. The code that performs this analysis should (ideally) know nothing about screen scraping or interrogating other applications. All it knows is how to take an abstract model of a poker table (probably expressed as some sort of PokerTable class) and determine which betting action to make.
Output. Once the processing stage has made a decision, the Output stage takes over. It's tasked with clicking the correct buttons on the screen, or simulating whatever user input is necessary in order to actually make the action occur on a given poker site/client.
These are just excerpts from the complete tutorial over at http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working-poker-botPoker Bot Software [dot] com
What is a texas hold’em poker bot?
To begin to understand the concept of a Poker Bot, focus in on the word “Robot“. That’s the key idea in software available these days, which can allow a person to play online Texas Holdem Poker without actually sitting in front of the computer. The software program acts as a “robot” of sorts to sit in an online poker game and make all the decisions and mouse clicks that need to be made without a person being present.
Our poker bot software comes out of the box ready to play professional poker in the most popular online poker rooms, it can be set to play cash games, sit and go’s or even tournaments. It doesn’t matter if you understand poker or not, and you don’t have to constantly monitor the program because no clicks or decisions is required. The bot handles all the action.
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Poker Bot Review
This website is dedicated to our favorite toy, the online pokerbot. Let's face it: The lower stakes Hold'em tables at most online casinos these days are becoming bot wars, like it or not. It's a game of who's bot can beat who's bot at the micro through 1/2 limits. And it's a fun game! Why not get in there with your own bot and see if you can beat the competition?
Types of Poker Bots
The Shanky bots are near out of the box products; just open them, select a few user options, and let them loose. Perhaps you would find it more fun to program most of the decisions yourself? Then you'll probably want one of the bots that require a third party software decision brain such as Online Poker Inspector, affectionately known as "OPI" among poker bot enthusiasts. The problem with these programs is that the decision-programming is limited to what these 3rd party software programs are capable of, so they are markedly inferior to a bot that was programmed up from scratch by a top player. The best product on the market in this category that we have seen so far is Poker Android.
See the Poker Bot Review website for a more complete description.
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