This has got to be one of the Amaya in-house bots they use to inflate prize pools and quietly carve off large slices of large tournament prize pools

How do you type with a mouse? I do remember windows xp had this inbuilt feature that would let you type using mouse but I couldn't find this inbuilt software in windows 7


Anyway @PokerStars Rep, any updates? Why has he not yet played a tournament after that tcoop event? Did he/she fail the security check?

suspicious

Stars going down the toilet real fast huh

Its bot problem

Really wish another site would sort their software out already

It's still there.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...oard=windows-7

It was definitely a bot, Pokerstars just wouldn't admit to it being caught. Why would it? It would make a lot of players be in uproar in already tremulous environment, so they just denied it being a bot and closed the account. Why else would it not play since?

Still possible he decided to retire immediately after this. lol

IvanHaldi still taking a break from poker. Maybe he will be back for SCOOP?

I would hope they would admit it, well, at least to the players who finished in the money. 3rd place finisher artmaxx_dk would have the most to gain if IvanHaldi is confirmed to be a bot by pokerstars.

Maybe Pokerstars would have those players who benefit sign a non-disclosure agreement.

I have always thought even before the Super User of Absolute and UB, "what is to stop a site from providing their own software bot that has all information and rng details to play in big tournaments?" It's the perfect environment for such a tactic.

Second. If it is indeed a bot, freezing the account isn't sufficient. A redistribution of the bots winning needs to occur, at the very least all those at the final table or even all who made the money.

Fyp

Obvious house bot is obvious.
GL catching the other ones.

He was russian? Probably passed out from vodka, woke up, shipped 96. Ez

i did not expect anything better, amaya is the cancer of the online poker industry.

Any updates on this situation, or is this bot just part of the improved "poker ecology"?

They're "looking in to it". You should receive an answer within 6-12 months but be rest assured they are working hard at it.

The bot is good for the games guys, this was just a standard communication blunder

you forgot to say ecosystem

Any update on this?

Without definitive updates from PS, one has to make assumptions, I am going to assume this was a PS House Bot.

I will also assume that they use such bots in decent sized tournaments as a means to skim large portions of money from the tournament pool and they can wisely do so in tournaments far easier than cash games due to the changing tables and relative anonymity. All the more reason for PS to promote with gusto their tournaments.

If any others make it to final tables, or, are simple observers of such odd behaviour, please report on 2+2

the most likely scenario, that they investigated and couldn't find/proof any wrongdoing. as far as i recall, PS never made any details of an investigation public, nor did any other legit room.

idk why this should be any proof for a house bot ... if you have a house bot, why would you run it unobserved or why would the house bot accidentally click deal making?

also PS is a huge company, so at least a few ppl would know ... how do you think how the chances are, no one would ever talk?

all this stupid rigged derail will only make this thread merged with the thread for stupid rigged theories

Whistleblowers are actually quite rare, you can understand their nature better in Edward Snowdens latest release: https://theintercept.com/2016/05/03/...al-resistance/

Big corporations plant propaganda all time in MAJOR news papers, the government lies to push it's agenda, and details only emerge decades later.

Despite what the government wants you think, groups aren't 100% of the time incompetent, if that where the case we wouldn't be where we are at technologically, sure we could get lucky a few times, but not like this.

It's propaganda that a large government or organization can't have secrets, it's suppose to make the prole feel safer.

A 3rd party might discover something, ala Volkswagen emission scandal, but unless a 3rd party hacks pokerstars, we have no idea what the truth is.

With that said, I don't believe this was a house bot and pokerstars rep did release a statement saying this isn't a bot.

I would bet my life for a million dollars that there's bots running rampant on all poker ecosystems right now, and if there's any conspiracy, it's pokerstars not being open about their security and the bot situation because they are scared and feel powerless.

Pokerstars is doing security through obscurity, which never works, but the only person hurt immediately is the player, and in the long term it hurts pokerstars as bots siphon money out of the poker economy at an astronomical rate.

A rising tide lifts all bots.