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Originally Posted by ermergerdp0ker
Getting refunds today has been the resolution of about a month wait as Global processed evidence I sent in along with Stroggoz when this was brought to our attention late january. We gathered and sent in evidence that I believe confirmed the existence of nonhuman players on the network. It was a shock to me how sophisticated the computer accounts were. I believe Global poker did the best they possibly could given the fact their website is relatively new, and the threat of computerized players is relatively new as well. To my knowledge, all offending accounts that we identified were banned and to the best of my knowledge no bots exist on global poker at this time. Getting refunds shows to me great respect from Global since they listened to us, and were committed to make things right.
I am grateful this issue has reached best possible conclusion I could have envisioned, thanks to the global staff, whom I genuinely believe did they best they could under the unfortunate circumstance.
Thanks for your work, I am grateful, but I completely disagree with your conclusion of the site being bot free.
I used to be a programmer for free to play games, and even in those there were extremely complicated bot networks (7+ years ago) just to play a stupid game and compete with the players who spent money. With poker there's a profit motive. I've been gone from 2+2 for a very long time, not sure if it's common knowledge, but people have been using heavily assisted play for well over a decade now.
But in all cases, if you have bots on your site then you, with 100% certainty, have assisted play and people regularly analyzing hand histories. If they were smart you would use solvers and play manually at reasonably high stakes. Obviously, it doesn't scale, but you could also probably teach an army of monkeys to play doing this and scale that way.
The issue we will always have is that we only catch the dumbest bots or assisted players... those who get greedy or make mistakes, like the ancient UB scandal. I promise you there are people who fly below the radar, and Global poker has hamstrung us in community policing efforts by not providing hand histories. Other people have suggested a 24 hour hold before download, that seems reasonable.