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Originally Posted by jambony
Realistically how much are these bots making (assuming they're bots)? The above result lists $8k after 600k+ hands? That's not very much. I assume none of these bots are in higher limit games.
The graphs/images posted ~100 posts back look like they are ~10NL if my math is right. If the alleged accounts are operated by the same bot on an 8 hour shift, essentially playing for 24 hours straight, even considering varying room traffic patterns, 600k hands in a month seems reasonable.
That 8.5 bb/100 winrate doesn't seem like much @10NL, but 85 cents per 100 hands adds up.
~$5300 pre-rakeback over 600k+ hands
$12,600 raked x 60% rakeback (might be low estimate with high-level VIP) = ~$7500
That's ~$13,000/month, or ~$150,000/year. Programming a computer network to beat $10 max buy-in No Limit Texas Hold'em cash games on the internet. Damn.
Joey, thanks for posting the video. I only have anecdotal evidence, but I found myself nodding along with your description of value bets on the river - against a normal person you win some & you lose some but on this site there just seems to be some accounts that never get the money in bad on the river. Or maybe I just suck.
Superusing, of course, is a possibility. This is just pure speculation, but is the ACR software old? Seems like old software would be ripe with exploitable vulnerabilities re: the RNG, etc.
Collusion between bots is probably more likely. As others mentioned, with "anonymous" crypto-funded accounts, one could VPN multiple laptops with accounts, etc. and end up with many accounts at the same table. It's not that unusual for regs from across the world to battle each other on multiple tables at once, so cover is good.
Even with verified documents required for withdrawal, there appear to be a myriad of ways you can easily get around this and "consolidate" funds into one account to withdraw.
This stuff gives the great game of poker a bad name. Having played in a live game where I witnessed cheating, as well as seeing some interesting things while playing online for over a decade, I'm left wondering: are there any actual "honest" poker games? (What does honest mean anyways?) I'd like to believe this is the case, but as I get older, the more the answer appears to be "no"
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