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Old 10-15-2011, 02:26 PM   #76
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well thats the nature of the game
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Old 10-15-2011, 02:43 PM   #77
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no chance, garbage in garbage out. A pokerbot can only play as well as its creator.
def. not true
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Old 10-15-2011, 02:56 PM   #78
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you cant build a bot based on trial and error unless the creator has some sort of neural net but this would take a team of postgrads at a university many many years to achieve. Its much more likely we are dealing with one or more good poker players who are also programmers who is able to fund his bot programming over the past X years from his poker winnings - and I'm sure there are many of this type around. The bots started on micro while the creator improved his bot logic, but to have a bot that beats midstakes, the creator absolutely has to be capable of that too. Practically guaranteed to be someone who participates in these forums.
i bet any AI specialist would disagree with you.

think about how you would brute force a GTO strat for rock paper scissors; you would only need the rules of the game, assign random strategies to player 1 and 2 and just let them keep adjusting to each other until they stop adjusting at the equilibrium.
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Old 10-15-2011, 03:19 PM   #79
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no chance, garbage in garbage out. A pokerbot can only play as well as its creator.
Wrong.

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you cant build a bot based on trial and error unless the creator has some sort of neural net but this would take a team of postgrads at a university many many years to achieve.
Trial and error is pretty easy if you have hundreds of millions of hhs at your disposal.
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Old 10-15-2011, 03:29 PM   #80
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I remember bots at 2/4 on Party back in 2007/8, they were OK and sometimes stuck around and played HU when the tables broke. HU they were easy to bet. But there was easier money to be made back then, so I didn't investigate furthur, I wish I had done.


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We can assure you that there are not bots playing in Ongame
. The Ongame network is reviewing all the suspicious cases to regulate it. there are no exact cases with proof of this program existing at our site, so it is safe to play poker.



Feel free to contact us again should you have any further questions.



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Old 10-15-2011, 04:05 PM   #81
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We have forwarded your concern to our poker provider and they will investigate these claims and act according to Network rules.

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I have asked if I will be receiving a written reply from their poker provider. I presume that it would be from Ongame themselves.
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Old 10-15-2011, 04:59 PM   #82
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I opened a Betsafe account a month ago and deposited. When i went to transfer my funds from the main wallet to my poker account i was only allowed to transfer X amount and asked to provide documents to transfer the rest. I had to scan a bank statement and an image of my passport and email themto support. Betsafe rejected the scan of my passport image because they couldnt make out the numbers at the bottom of the passport to confirm its authenticity. They made me send another image showing the Passport numbers and only then did they allow me to transfer a decent amount to my poker account so i could play.
Surely if every skin followed these measures to verify every single account then the owners of the bots would have a hell of a time setting up 100s of accounts. Do all Ongame skins follow the same procedure as Betsafe?
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Old 10-15-2011, 05:06 PM   #83
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I opened a Betsafe account a month ago and deposited. When i went to transfer my funds from the main wallet to my poker account i was only allowed to transfer X amount and asked to provide documents to transfer the rest. I had to scan a bank statement and an image of my passport and email themto support. Betsafe rejected the scan of my passport image because they couldnt make out the numbers at the bottom of the passport to confirm its authenticity. They made me send another image showing the Passport numbers and only then did they allow me to transfer a decent amount to my poker account so i could play.
Surely if every skin followed these measures to verify every single account then the owners of the bots would have a hell of a time setting up 100s of accounts. Do all Ongame skins follow the same procedure as Betsafe?
Tbh it's something that has surprised me a bit.

I have only started playing at Ongame in the last few months and have tried two skins while shopping around for better deals. On both accounts I have deposited and withdrawn 4figures without any security at all.
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Old 10-15-2011, 05:24 PM   #84
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Agree. There are ways to build a very sophisticated bot while barely knowing the rules of the game.
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To write a program to do anything you need to have a seriously good understanding of the process you are automating.
If these are bots, then whoever wrote them (or at least one of the team) has a knowledge of strategy good enough to beat the same games.

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There is absolutely no way that there isnt at least 1 trusted bigshot highstaker behind the successful bots
Why do you say that? Could be anyone, well known or otherwise.
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Old 10-15-2011, 05:24 PM   #85
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I opened a Betsafe account a month ago and deposited. When i went to transfer my funds from the main wallet to my poker account i was only allowed to transfer X amount and asked to provide documents to transfer the rest. I had to scan a bank statement and an image of my passport and email themto support. Betsafe rejected the scan of my passport image because they couldnt make out the numbers at the bottom of the passport to confirm its authenticity. They made me send another image showing the Passport numbers and only then did they allow me to transfer a decent amount to my poker account so i could play.
Surely if every skin followed these measures to verify every single account then the owners of the bots would have a hell of a time setting up 100s of accounts. Do all Ongame skins follow the same procedure as Betsafe?
No, BestPoker never asked me for anything.
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Old 10-15-2011, 05:25 PM   #86
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i know im prob not gonna get any answer but i already know where to buy the bot but if someone has bought it(or has a good version) and wants it sent to somewhere at ongame that matters i have a friend who knows big guys around ongame that know bigger guys so just pm me and ill forward you an email to discuss it with him
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Old 10-15-2011, 05:53 PM   #87
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To write a program to do anything you need to have a seriously good understanding of the process you are automating.
If these are bots, then whoever wrote them (or at least one of the team) has a knowledge of strategy good enough to beat the same games.
Not true.
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Old 10-15-2011, 05:57 PM   #88
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To write a program to do anything you need to have a seriously good understanding of the process you are automating.
If these are bots, then whoever wrote them (or at least one of the team) has a knowledge of strategy good enough to beat the same games.
That's pretty obvious. You can't automated a process that you don't understand.

To those that say otherwise: Could you write an accounting program without knowing accounting?
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Old 10-15-2011, 06:27 PM   #89
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Not true.
Care to elaborate?

You're suggesting that the bots are based on true AI and have taught themselves NLHE? That's technically feasible I guess.

However using brute force decision trees and strategy approximations is going to be an infinitely easier task than writing AI, even if 100bb MSNL is a fairly large task to automate correctly.

Maybe I'm wrong but I rate myself as a very experienced coder (though I've never written poker programs) and I just can't see AI being faster/easier than just pre-defined strategies.

I guess it's possible that you could write evaluation routines to decide best strategies (like stoxev or pokerazor) but still the programmer needs to be at least a very very solid player to begin with.
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Old 10-15-2011, 06:30 PM   #90
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That's pretty obvious. You can't automated a process that you don't understand.

To those that say otherwise: Could you write an accounting program without knowing accounting?
of course. you just need the accounting rulebook. you guys are just flat-out wrong about needing a world class player to make a world class bot. which top limit pro was involved in writing polaris?
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