For the past year, I've been part of 2 separate groups that have been spending countless hours to detect members of the russian / czech / ukrainian bot-ring and helping sites in detecting and banning the accounts.
While the other sites I play on have been effective in catching and banning these bots, 888 has been as effective in ignoring me regarding the subject.
I'm not going say why I know these guys are using a bot and what are the giveaways, for obvious reasons. Also, I'm still weighing the pros and cons of outing the accounts publicly so if you have an opinion about that, I'm all ears. I've reported them to 888 and I'm hoping this thread would put some pressure on them to act to make the game fair for everyone.
I've tried to contact previous and current employees of 888poker to find someone who would care, before posting on a public forum about it. I never found anyone
I was provided the stats from the "russian PTR" of the 5 accounts in question. One could claim their stats match fairly well to each other.
The two groups were really actively working on getting the bots banned in June on other sites. I reported the 5 accounts to 888 between June 26th and July 1st this year.
Two accounts stop playing around that time and don't come back. Did they get banned or did they get spooked? As the others kept playing, I'm guessing they got spooked. Without 888 releasing any info, we can only guess. Remember, the same bots were getting banned and their funds confiscated on other sites at the same time.
Account 1's PTR session tab today
Account 2's PTR session tab today
Account 3's session tab from my HEM. Seems he stopped playing for a while around the time of my report to 888 but re-appeared early August.
Account 4 and 5 have kept playing the whole time.
The purpose of this thread is to try to get someone from 888poker to care about this problem. The bots have and are still taking hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the games. They have and are beating SSNL and MSNL with high winrates.
I didn't include anywhere close to all of proof and info about this whole issue as the less information is available online for these bot developers, the better.
After 4-5 emails to 888, this is their answer to each of my email:
Quote:
This is the Operations Team at 888poker and we are contacting you with regards to your account with username "xxx".
Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention, I would like for you to know that we take these matters seriously and that this case will be looked into and dealt with appropriately. As you have been already informed unfortunately due to company policies I will not be able to inform you of the outcome of this.
May I take this opportunity to wish you a great day and the best of luck at the tables!
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
Regards,
Operations Team
operations@cassava.net
Thank you for reading.
Edit:
After discussing the matter with some people, I've decided to out the accounts.
The accounts that stopped playing after my email:
VneZakona &
lostinchips
Account that stopped playing but came back:
breakingtheW
Accounts that have kept playing the whole time:
KOKOKKOLO and
AnimalFairy
Regarding the last 2, if you check KOKO's history, you will see he wasn't doing that well before July last year. At the same time he stopped playing 100nl and got a hold of the bot, I'm guessing from his results.
The first 4 accounts are russian, AnimalFairy is Czech.
There might be more but these are the ones I've found so far.
Last edited by Lessu; 08-19-2015 at 11:20 AM.
Reason: Outed accounts