888poker has become a disgrace to online poker! The above bot article is a slap in the face for everyone who is trying to make and keep the games clean. After reading the article one thing is for sure: 888poker is dead to me!
Thx a lot for posting links to the article, niminator!

I was shocked they published that. And in all kinds of different languages at that.
There seems to clearly be a colossal ignorance towards what their dear customers believe is right within these big sites and networks as long as the moneyz flow. The sane mind would think so unless onec onsiders botters and such as customers or unless one makes the sublime and in-between-the-line suggestion that botting, after all, isn't that bad.
Real sleazy I think.

That's why we as online Poker players need some sort of global regulation or global industry standard. Otherwise, we'll have to stick to the few smaller networks that clearly exist which value their human flesh and bone customers or stick to MTTs only or resort to live Poker only...

I'm aware these alternatives may be very unpleasant for professional players depending on a steady income from Poker. Especially if they have family, kids etc.

I was just yesterday playing someone heads-up on a smaller Euro site (100 NLHE) that I realized is a bot. Although the bot was far from being flawless (and I like to think that I found ways of beating it) it was super strong and recreationals must be viewed as simple ATMs by the bots owner. It gave me head aches to figure out leaks and it was unbelievable how fast that machine adapted to 3-bets, 4-bets, awkward bet sizings etc. I am not entirely sure it has any severe leaks and in the end it adapted to my aggression in such a way that it called my AKs 5-b shove with AJo (correct based on odds).
I let the site know and they were thankful but I have yet to see that they did anything about it. this guy has been playing there since a year at least up to 100NL and is one of the best players in the player pool.
I guess it was a simple Shanky Bot that any idiot with PayPal and able to peel a banana can buy on several sites on the internet.

Botters and such must be pulling millions each week and month from the player pool up to low and mid stakes. It makes you puke if you think about it as a Poker player that cares for the game and its future.

I wouldn't read in to that article much. It dates back to at least January 2016. 888 farms out a fair amount of magazine stuff to freelancers as part of a content marketing strategy. I doubt it was written with any connection to the internal poker team, and it's going to get translated by the marketing department into their target languages. It's just standard SEO stuff.

Not saying the article isn't misguided, but I wouldn't extrapolate or make any inferences regarding internal 888 policy based on the text of that article.

What does it take for you to finally accept that 888 has no problem having bots on their site? If such article on their own website does not cut it then nothing will tbh.

As you have professional insight into (Poker) journalism I trust and value your opinion and I believe you. It still agravated the life out of me :-)
Besides the German translation was horrible horrible horrible and portrayed things that the English(?) author probably didn't mean to claim to the extent given there...

I also believe that both their Marketing and Quality department did a beneath poor job here by letting them publish that.

Nobody cares about this.

People are concerned about unexplained account closures and funds seizure. Aware players are withdrawing funds proactively because the current situation is rightfully seen as risky. We need you to engage with the community and help resolve this.

Bots and scripting are not allowed on our poker site and will be investigated as always and action taken where suspicions allow .
Regards
888Rep

This and qft!

blah blah blah Captain Obvious.

If you can't or are not willing to address the current mass ban issue then there's also no need to state the obvious.

No single -neither directly affected, nor concerned customer- gains anything from such standard official copypasta.

Please read the above quote and if you have a specific account issue then please contact our support team and they will address it for you.

Thanks

No they genuinly won't

Copy-pasting some false claims will not help your issue.

Please try to contribute directly to this "multiple accounts being banned situation" or get someone higher up to do so, but please cease to redirect us towards an inefficient support.

Not sure if you meant to direct this at me. I have voiced no opinion regarding 888's position on accepting bots or otherwise. Just suggesting not to take an old 888 magazine article as gospel.

Hey everyone,

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https://www.888poker.com/magazine/po...oker-in-macau/

This is not helpful. We are all adults here, and there's a serious issue that needs to be addressed.

Time for you to step up and do your job.

WTF

Do you have no leeway whatsoever, no direct contact with someone of authority/importance or do not care at all? Which one is it? This is a serious question and I do expect an answer, thank you.

Macau is not really a place to promote. High rake and no tables to play. Actually just like 888poker when you think about it...

Sorry to say but any bot (yes, haha) could represent 888Poker with the same quality as it is represented right now. Maybe it would even feel a little better if they had no rep at all on this forum. Actually he does a decent job of his position though: The rep is supposed to represent the site. The rep in this case doesn't care at all about the latest issues eg. account closure. Most importantly, neither does the site care about the wrongdoing they did with this massive banwave. Every post by the rep in here or any email received by customer support feels like a kick in the ass each time for those who are effected by the various past issues (luckily I pulled the trigger before depositing, looking at their most obvious currency scams they do on most of their transactions).

First of all I apologize for the delay in delivering an official response here. This is a rather sensitive issue that involves several teams in 888 and I needed to get proper authorization before I can post replies with more information on a security issue.

Banning poker bots and other unauthorized software users is a top priority for 888poker. Our Fraud Department is using several bot detection methodologies, and while we are very confident regarding most of our recent bans, occasionally it is possible that a legit account could get blocked and for that we apologize, but please understand that these kind of mistakes are bound to happen as we seriously battle this phenomenon.

In cases where we did not feel a top level of confidence that the closed accounts were bots, we have agreed to reopen if the players could verify their identity with us. Should your account have been affected and you require further information, please contact our Operations Department on operations@cassava.net


As for the article mentioned here – 888Poker Magazine is trying to cover various topics which may be of interest to poker players, and one of the chosen topics for the January 2016 release was playing with poker bots. This is purely a content editor choice which was based on industry trends, and obviously has nothing to do with 888poker’s strict policy of prohibiting bots.

Regards,

888Rep

Hi, got upgraded to p-1-en-4-7.3-1-14. What's new in this version?

PS. New version screwed up with my hotkeys. Would you be kind enough to post a link to version p-1-en-4-7.3-1-10?

Anyone else finding that the client is copying the HH from the last hand to clipboard all the time and is there any way to turn it off?

I am trying to find out exactly what was changed and will post when I know.
Sorry but there is no way to link to previous versions.

888Rep

Hi everybody! I recreation player, and play microlimits on 888 2 years ollready. But two last weeks im spin the lucky chep (free wheel) and nothing to win. How??? Its impossible! And i start record screen video about.
17.08.2017 they fix it. I recreation player and i not like this TOTAL UNLUCK!!!

https://youtu.be/XoaxwA7mc7Q

Sorry for sound.

I think all lucky spins and scratchcards from 888 are not the question of luck. They are based on your account history, number of bets or games played.

therefore, if you don't play one of their games you win nothing.

Yes they use a complicated RNG so yiu need to be an active player to win and also you need to lose before you can get "lucky" . Shame on you 888 . It looks more like a scam operation than a real pokerroom.