They said they had made their decision based on their bot detection tools, which probably just means they alarm bell didn't go off. They felt it must be fine, and haven't looked into it.

Otherwise, they would have used analysis by their expert or something along those lines as a reason why the account is not a bot.

Post #134 in this thread Michael Josem of the PokerStars Communications Team writes this:

lmao that would be classic

Bah! All that says is their bot detection didn't detect that he was a bot but they're still looking into why he didn't respond in chat or in PMs or on the phone.

Considering the PLO bot thing, PokerStars bot detection software might need to catch up to where current botters are. Just like they lagged behind the times in their collusion detection with the Chinese DoN scandal. Also remember him commenting in a thread of a picture of 3 guys sitting together with 6 laptops with cellular wifi adapters on them playing DoNs on all the screens and he said it looked normal.

My favorite is ->

SYS ERR=7

No thanks for finding that for you? There's juuust a hint of shooting the messenger in your response - I'm just answering your question.

Good question since its now been a week since IvanHaldi last played on Stars.

1 LuckboxStami $48,042
2 IvanHaldi $35,720
3 artmaxx_dk $25,245
4 HochMeista $17,595..............

I'm sure artmaxx would love an extra $10k in his account along with everyone else.

Thank you.

I really feel sorry for Josem having to spout off that crap response.

I used to think a lot of his posts

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2016/0...erns-23941.htm

Eyebrows were raised involving a recent event on PokerStars that occurred late on the second day during this year's Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) when many questioned whether the runner-up was a human player or a bot.

After investigating the situation, PokerStars ruled that the player was indeed human and not powered by artificial intelligence. Here's how the situation unfolded.

When the TCOOP-08: $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Big Antes, Optional Re-Entry], $200K Gtd was down to just two players, a PokerStars representative with the screenname "HostMatthieM" was invited into chat to help potentially facilitate a deal between the final two players — Finland's "LuckboxStami" and Russia's "IvanHaldi".

"LuckboxStami" requested the PokerStars host to present the figures with $4,000 left to play if agreed to by both players. The host quickly came back with figures that would have awarded "LuckboxStami" $40,393.85 and "IvanHaldi" $39,450.15 with each the chance at winning more money and a TCOOP bracelet if they beat the other.

This is where things got interesting, as "LuckboxStami" immediately accepted the deal by typing into the chat box, "I agree." His opponent, however, was silent. The host then asked for a moment to find someone that spoke Russian, but "IvanHaldi" still didn't respond after this.

Online poker destroyed by BOT.

Merry Christmas everyone!

If anyone thinks that a pokerstars owned media (pokernews) is where you should be getting objective news about pokerstars then you must be ******ed.

I'm not going to read the pile of rubbish but it would probably serve you better to read the actual thread here that contains everything and I would assume the article is based on.

Why we need to know about another pokerstars useless media effort I will never know.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...-08-a-1584765/

I guess we're never going to find out, but I really want to know his excuse for not answering in English, Russian or the phone.

probably was bot then he found and and phoned pokerstars when he realised his bot won him a bunch of money / ft'd a tcoop and gave a dumb reasoning and they decided to turn a blind eye and just accept the excuse instead of making a big drama / news about it

A 2+2 thread about a pokernews post about a 2+2 thread. Always a good idea.

Pokerstars should be indicted for mass buggery of its players.

They are the king of the castle and hold all the cards.

Boycott it.

Online poker is gone.

Not sure about indictment, but them failing to provide a fair environment while taking huge amounts of rake out of the games is probably the one thing, where we could really harm them back.

+1

It's beyond me why anyone would read pokernews when they can just read the source material direct in NVG.

has player in question played since?

Because the word "news"

Ok, if someone doesn't read NVG then pokernews.com runs a good NVG highlights service, but people who start threads here based on pokernews.com stories should assume we already know and don't want to read a second hand report on a conversation some of us were participating in anyway.

Just had a quick look at his playing days. He mostly play on weekends. If he was indeed a bot, wouldn't he be playing everyday or more often? But still very fishy for not responding after agreeing for deal. Maybe his keyboard was not working - we'll only come to know once they deploy ft replays and see what his bet sizes were.