Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Poker Robots Start to Invade the World of Online Gaming

Posted by Cassy Novamba | Tuesday, March 15, 2011 | Category: , , , , |

Internet casino poker today has proven that the game is not only for humans anymore. Bots have started to invade the game and most of them are battling against those individuals and obviously beating all the odds of the game.

Based on a report of New York Times, a 36-year-old professional poker player since 2008, Bryan Taylor, noticed an awkward action of his opponent within his gaming at an online poker site. He seemed to notice his opponent's similar responses against his action and makes him wonder on who is on the other virtual table playing with him.

Defeating Online Poker Bots
He was then become suspicious in his gaming as the online industry is fighting versus robots (commonly called BOTS) that were programmed to play on the virtual rooms and beat the odds.
The bots have existed for some time, and suddenly got a good game where they have cheated some of the major gambling websites with about thousand dollars Which is why these casino sites have decided to defend their site's reputation for the benefits of the players.


Some of these major sites that were infested with bots are Pokerstars and Full Tilt. And they've started to fight back as Michael Josem, security manager of PokerStars, said recently that the site had started to diminish or mainly combating those bots where they begin to spend money – as they cut some players account with questionable personal information and in some cases return the full money of those real players. They ensure that human players can enjoy the game properly.
One problem that many online poker sites is facing is those seller of the bots, in which an ease of buying of those bots can be found online.

Recently, Full Tilt has banned 400 customers who utilize bot which they purchased online. Thus, losing them an approximate amount of $70,000 on their monthly revenue. Though other sites haven''t cracked down with such cases, it is then proven that bots are starting to ransack those legal casino poker websites.

Gaming websites should procure this case or else they'll drop down from the industry and worst is to shut down the business.

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