I apologize in advance for any grammar mistakes [English is not my native language].
We [the group of Russian mtt-regs] did notice new mid/high stakes PS/FTP/Party regs from Russia and Netherlands which were and still are playing in their ‘signature’ style very similar [almost authentic] to
D0nttiltonme and Co (link to thread in russian). [cliffs: group of Russian bots who were firstly accused by community and later banned by PS/FTP]
Combined profit of every suspicious account
is over 1 million USD.
ALLIES
Later PS and FTP closed said accounts and that confirmed our suspicion.
You can see sudden stop of these winning ‘regs’ activity on PS/FTP on sharkscope:
After that they migrated to iPoker where they grind money up to this day also continue to play and reg new accounts on Party.
Proofs they are bots [or a group of human-operated accounts with same software which is making decisions for them] :
1. PS/FTP closed their accounts autumn 2015.
2. They have very similar % of finishes in early/middle/late stages and very identical HUD-stats. Accounts are from Russia and Netherlands.
Party:
Ipoker:
3.‘Signature’ playing style which is unorthodox/uncommon for regs:
- very high WWSF [>50%, several streets of bets with no equity in multiway pots, etc];
- no adjusments to stages of tournament: identical stats for pre and post ante stages, ignore of ICM [these are the reasons why we combined pre and post ante hands on HEM screenshots];
- ‘contradiction’ of preflop and postflop stats: have you ever seen human regs which are fighting for every postflop pot even with no equity (WWSF>50%, fold to c-bet < 40%) but still folding ±60% to 3bet and folding ±60% to steal? I think you haven’t (cause it’s impossible to find one).
If you bump at them at the table just go thru some of their hands with showdown to be sure that it’s not really usual game of regs.
4. Nobody knows who they are. Almost every Russian-speaking regs know each other in one way or another. In this case we have few dozen unknown ‘regs’. Dutch high-stakes regulars also do not know anything about them.
5. Rapid growth of their population in late 2015 / early 2016 (after PS/FTP closed their accounts they had start their expansion in other rooms).
It’s very likely that this is same people that were involved in d0ntiltonme case. Same unorthodox playing style and almost identical stats (but they lowered RFI which was clearly made to adjust for lower stakes and features of the second tier’s rooms with softer fields), again Russian and Netherlands, huge profit.
Here’s the list of active at the moment accounts suspected to be bots:
Party:
SegaMK3
RipWinamp
DuckShmidth
POKMY3blKAHT
durstfan
smartsowhat
partyphone37
but_flush
kingsnevrdie76
AcofAces14
ALLIES
Ipoker:
SegaMK3
RipWinamp
blankebetman
butttflush
tataromongol1
ALLIES
We suspect some more accounts but we don’t have enough proof at the moment.
It’s also likely that there are unknown to us accounts and that they are constantly adding new accounts.
What we already did:
We took our information to ‘pads’ (Patrick Leonard) who is PartyPoker ambassador at the moment. We hope he did what he can but there were no proper reaction (it’s been 2 month from our first talk)
We don’t have a clue what to do with iPoker accounts cause iPoker network has are a lot of rooms and it’s own security department is incompetent.