Take a Poker Bot to Breakfast The truth is now revealing. There is certainly a
poker bot playing at your online poker game. So you might as well be nice to it.
Most online poker players say that the games are becoming tougher recently. Perhaps this is due to all the opponents getting more skilled. Sure. The reality is the fact that poker bots have saturated the sites in force. The good side of this situation is that not all of these software programs are a threat. In fact a few of them are totally monkeys, which should actually be good for your profits.
However there are many impressive ones now playing as well, which is what the reason for the tables becoming more difficult to win at. Mostly they are sitting at the lower limit tables. This is due to the fact that they are not as noticeable there, and as a consequence are more put up with by the poker company there. Having those seats constantly filled is of primary interest to the house as the rake is high and consequently a steady source of profit. So they are more willing to overlook the bots playing in those games.
The exception is when they start receiving too many objections from the human players, especially if these complaints are coming from a public place such as a well-known poker forum. That might garner a response in the form of a PR move from the poker company to demonstrate that they actually care. This is probably nothing more than a warning and perhaps they will stop the very worst offenders. Then it will be a return to business as normal. I mean really, if you owned an online poker business would you be in a rush to put a stop to a lot of your best customers?
Not everybody who spends time at online poker thinks that poker bots are a negative concept for the game. A few better players love having them around. They provide live tables and help assist with keeping the tables full. And the reality is, all poker rooms themselves ran house bots in the early days to get tables started. Not to mention the fact that many better players assume that they can beat the bots by recognizing exploitable patterns that they exhibit.
Lets not neglect the poker bot users themselves. They tend to have an amazing refreshing justification regarding their decision to use this type of software. Most of them do not see themselves as doing anything unethical despite the fact that they are breaking the rules of the poker site. The robot program has no definable edge over human players, as it does not have access to any extra data than human eyes. In truth they can be a pain to setup and get playing properly. But they are a lot of fun to play with.
So maybe the rest of us should consider giving the bots a warm welcome. If you haven’t tried using one, perhaps you should. What could go wrong? These programs may well be the future of online poker. So join the crowd today. Or at least, if you see a pokerbot, take him out to the movies. Be nice. Offer to buy him a quart of oil.