Bob,
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It's the fish and the total noob's who are SUPER paranoid of bots and your hole-cards being seen by those who have the special program, etc etc.
The point I am trying to make is there is a world of difference between these two examples - bots and cheaters.
Fish do not care about playing bots imo - see Jbrennans video poker analogy above, or think of the people who pay good money for "WSOP 2007: XBox 360" and so on.
Fish may talk of bots, but only in the context that they are being cheated. Most fish I meet are far more concerned with a scummy site outright stealing there money (lol???) or being cheated by house players / collusion etc. Is this not your experience? When they talk of rigged - they are meaning the SITE is rigging it against them in favour of their preferred players, who may be "house bots"?
say: "How do you know you're even playing real people?" response: "I don't, and it does not matter. If I can beat a player, I don't care if they are real or not, their money is just as good. If I find myself against a player that I cannot beat - I don't care if they are real or not, I switch tables to find players I can beat".
Ser4iously, if you are beating up a table full of fish - do you even pause to consider how many of them may be bots?