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Originally Posted by Winning_TD
Carl why do you still post or even check the thread when you openly admitted you dont play here anymore. As to bots cant beat world class players... There have been many names sent to me which get investigated. I dont know how many times i can say this but just because you think its a BOT it doesnt mean it is.
There are humans in eastern europe that play poker and dont talk in chat.
There are several troubling things with your response here. As for your comments to Carl, just because someone moves out of a high crime area because they are sick of it doesn't mean they give up their right to comment on the crime in the area.
ACR is rife with bots to the point that bot makers literally advertise their products for your site:
http://www.poker-bot.org/main/acr-update/
The only people who seem to take this issue seriously are the people who play on ACR, because aside from them, I see nothing but inaction on your end.
In 2016 after the MadBotter bragged about using your site as a platform, Mr. Nagy said:
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“I will make mistakes, I will ban real money people, and I will ban real people because they seem like bots, and I will be merciless about it. To do this right, you gotta draw a line in the sand, if you end up being a casualty of war … collateral damage, I apologize, but this is what the people want,”
Serious words against botting, which is cheating. Your statement in this thread seems to contradict Mr. Nagy's statement, but then again the complete lack of action on the part of ACR against bots seems to indicate that the site doesn't take cheating seriously in the first place.
It's been argued that ACR benefits from bots due to rake, but I would argue at this point the site would make more money if it confiscated the balances in the botter's accounts, since there are so many of them at every single level of the game, it would probably be windfall profits for the site.
There is bot cheating at every single level of cash games, starting at .1 .2 and the only people who seem to take this seriously are the players, which is a shame because not only is it not their job to ensure fair play on your site, but also because they have no power to do anything.
I imagine that this cheating has cost honorable players tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, but they have yet to find a remedy in ACR's actions.
I'd suggest you examine what more reputable sites do when confronted with cheating. For instance the chess website lichess. If an account there is found to be cheating with a chess engine, the players who has been cheated will have their elo points returned to them. Such actions are not only laudable, but also profitable for the site, which is now the fastest growing chess site on the internet.
I sincerely hope that ACR begins to take this issue seriously, because there will come a terminal point in which your player pool will vanish.