To those that are unaware, the past year has been an absolute disaster for players on the Winning Poker Network. I will attempt to accurately break down the timeline of events from my perspective over the past year.
November 2018
While playing a large number of hands competing in the beast I began to notice that many of the accounts from the former Eastern Bloc countries had identical postflop stats, especially stats that differed drastically from those of regulars outside of these countries. I had always been suspicious of these accounts because of their strange tendencies postflop but I had always seen a difference in preflop stats and I didn't realize that these were just adjustments to the rake level the bots were stationed at. I started to sift through my database and lo and behold when I checked 2 stats in particular all of these accounts stood out from the rest. They are: Flop cbet(multiway) and Flop Float (bet vs missed cbet in HEM). Their multiway flop cbetting is higher than heads up and their flop float is over 75% on average. Many of the 6max PLO games had 2-4 of these bots simultaneously. I started to collect names of these accounts as well as their other stats and sent the information to WPN security immediately. I then talked to a known poker pro that referred me to WINNING_TD who I spoke with on the phone. He told me that since none of the accounts I suspected to be bots were in the USA that it was impossible for any of the accounts to be bots. This obviously was not an acceptable outcome for me so I decided to contact Joe Ingram and he said he would love if I provided him with the data on these bot accounts. I did some research on the pokerstars/party PLO cash botring from 2016 and these accounts had the same postflop tendencies as well as some of the same preflop tendencies such as preflop squeeze being higher than preflop 3bet from every position and at every stake. I created a 2p2 account and began sharing the data on a few threads. No bots were banned.
April 2019
Twitch streamer "EricCollier" was playing a NL MTT and I was watching. He made it to heads up versus an account from Latvia called "FoxRox". FoxRox entered HU very deep and proceeded to tank and fold preflop almost every single hand versus a minraise and open fold the button. This was clearly a bot that somehow malfunctioned and was obvious to all viewers. The video went viral and there were many posts about it on various social media outlets.
In the days that followed this FoxRox incident, WPN CEO Phil Nagy went on a media blitz with many interviews and videos where he acknowledged that there was a bot problem and vowed that he would finally once and for all crack down on the bots and refund players $25,000 per bot that was banned based on how much they lost to the bot as an overall percentage and a convoluted structure based on what position they were in in games that the MTT bots cashed in.
In the month after the FoxRox incident, 46 accounts were banned and added to this page
https://www.winningpokernetwork.com/banned-accounts/.
Many of the refunds went to other suspected bot accounts. The last group of banned accounts was added to this page on May 15th.
May 20th 2019
-WPN changes previous IGNsoft client to software that was previously used for their jackpot poker games. Players experienced numerous issues such as: pressing the enter key triggering a bet inadvertently, login not working, accounts not being recognized entirely and deleted from the WPN database, funds diasppearing from tables, extreme lag, crashes, disconnects, forced logouts, ect. Rake race leaderboards diappeared entirely and both VIP and flat rakeback payments completely stopped as well as deposit bonuses for months. Bots were gone for a few days but quickly returned. Hand histories are not being generated for all in situations at cash and MTTs.
July 2019
The VIP program was promised to be restored on July 10th, however on July 9th, the date was pushed back to a later unspecified date. Some of the glitches were fixed but many remained and still remain to this date. Bot situation continued to worsen at PLO cash but most tables still had only 1 bot max and only a couple tables would have 2 bots on certain days and times. Hand histories are not being generated for all in situations at cash and MTTs.
August 2019
Some VIP rakeback was paid but not the correct amounts. Bot situation begins to seriously worsen, one bot was seen winning the beast with the overall top place one week and many tables having 2 bots. Players report being shortchanged on flat rakeback payouts and affiliates report not being paid. Hand histories are not being generated for all in situations at cash and MTTs.
September 2019
Bot situation goes full out insane with almost every table during peak hours and especially on Fridays (the last day of the Beast race) having sometimes almost 90% of PLO200 and lower having 2-4 bots on it. Rank points and their equivalent are being shortchanged over 50%. Flat rakeback players are reporting not receiving any rakeback and even negative rakeback, or being shortchanged massively. Hand histories are not being generated for all in situations at cash and MTTs.
Spreadsheet of some bot accounts for selected stats from Feb 2019:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...Jj9dj4DSPc8h4E
92 PLO bot accounts playing the exact same postflop stats over the past couple years which only 4 have been banned to date (most of these accounts are no longer active but only 4 have officially been banned and "refunded") There are many new bot accounts currently active playing this same profile.
Crazyhooch
Hhodor
beaverr
kobretti
familier
Lexum
SnowJohn
feralturnskin
Hyperion115
PortgasAceAce
I_hold_it
k4m4z
ropedancer
gladiaTHOR1
flakeoutZzz
Tojagar
SafeBYRYNDY
fata1hand
zoltanPK
maniac115
Gefest
NYMph49
phanatik
interpidtracer
Alkea101
iBetUfoldt
Evilskill
wrestlertruth
evergreenwin
Slackbreaker
Lincolion
pknsha
pushkan
oddi
Zergwentape
NimbleBeck
Wishko
PotBeMy
dikobrazzers
Illcallback
Jiraffe
TheUnlimiteD
stoicwise
aceeater
Ludoman
glowworm
bardos11
NoDose
kr0na
FeelGod
hophey68
scabbydog
needurnrj
Superfisher
redAppl
lazycroc
technokrat
MrLarson
Blimey
Ca11MeBaby
gloomypapa
Quakeeeeeee
homyakubiytsa
deadmanshand76
rightdecision
pennyHill
Insector
Smart1One
Shtilter
cashbang
imPekabu
baikal77
kigdin
Loktar
DaggerGT
klarSSon
KyleBroflovski
dancingQQ
Besmily
temerarious5
teslaM77
BurningManKK
wolf_DDDDOG
carrdSharrk
groundsquirrel
Gelllemar
ObeTwice
wildpokem0n
Toughie
Trickset
Jokers_Grin
The following are some of the new bots that I am aware of that play the same stats as the above 92 accounts that arrived after May 20th:
RibaFishKKa
dashforward
DaRkDailo
TinnySun
StubblyPan
betH0ven
dilemmafixer
zvezZzda
Last edited by HandOfGod666; 09-30-2019 at 05:27 AM.