Are you for real?

[fearisthekey]

Late stages of a Party SnG last night, I get dealt a lovely hand, go to raise with it, and a big fat box pops up on my screen with 'A4922kK' written all funny in it, like the ones you get when you register for websites, to stop automated entry. 'Party Poker are clamping down on bots, please enter the characters you see in the box or you will not be allowed to play this hand'. wtf? Is this standard? Was my play THAT mechanical that it triggered some kind of bot alarm? lol Surely there can't be a large enough number of bots in use to justify this kind of measure?

[thetank]

Everyone gets that message on Party from time to time, it's got nowt to do with the style of play.

How big an inconvienence was it really?

[fearisthekey]

Everyone gets that message on Party from time to time, it's got nowt to do with the style of play.

How big an inconvienence was it really?

Not an inconvenience. But I'd love to know if I'm playing against enough bots for them to consider such an unusual measure.

Could never for the life of me figure out why Online Poker bots never took off. How hard could it be? If you program something to go all in with top pair top kicker or powerhouse hands on Party you'd be massive +EV....

[bolt pp]

Everyone gets that message on Party from time to time, it's got nowt to do with the style of play.

How big an inconvienence was it really?

Not an inconvenience. But I'd love to know if I'm playing against enough bots for them to consider such an unusual measure.

Could never for the life of me figure out why Online Poker bots never took off. How hard could it be? If you program something to go all in with top pair top kicker or powerhouse hands on Party you'd be massive +EV....

I was going to say that it may have taken off and theyre just getting quietly but i vaguely remember from another thread that there is a pokerbot forum site somewhere

[doubleup]

I've never had one of these, but occasionally I get a Zone Alarm popup saying Party is trying to get up to something, I don't allow it to do what it wants with no apparent ill effects.

[thetank]

Everyone gets that message on Party from time to time, it's got nowt to do with the style of play.

How big an inconvienence was it really?

Not an inconvenience. But I'd love to know if I'm playing against enough bots for them to consider such an unusual measure.

Could never for the life of me figure out why Online Poker bots never took off. How hard could it be? If you program something to go all in with top pair top kicker or powerhouse hands on Party you'd be massive +EV....

Botting is big buisness in limit poker, has been for years.

STT bots are a more recent invention, but apparently exist too.

If you're interested check out. http://www.winholdem.net/ to see what the bad boy botters are up to these days.
Sad thing is, most of them don't think they are doing anything wrong. (That one of the boards on their forum is called "Anti-Detection Discussion" should tip them off, but the moral compass only spins where it wants to I guess.)

I like what Party do, better than the other sites plan of sticking their fingers in their ears and singing lalala. It doesn't stop the bots, but it's a pain in the arse for them. Other sites probably don't introduce similar measures as it makes the casual players aware that people are cheating them. There are bots on every major network though

[JungleCat03]

when you get these boxes, am I the only one who feels the urge to type in "bzzztickbzzz does not compute, does not compute bzzzzztickbzzzzz"


(Don't ask me why my bot sounds like a cross between a bee and a watch, it just does ok....)

[snoopy1239]

I see not much has changed.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=2404.0

[bolt pp]

I see not much has changed.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=2404.0

you've gained an o

[fearisthekey]

Everyone gets that message on Party from time to time, it's got nowt to do with the style of play.

How big an inconvienence was it really?

Not an inconvenience. But I'd love to know if I'm playing against enough bots for them to consider such an unusual measure.

Could never for the life of me figure out why Online Poker bots never took off. How hard could it be? If you program something to go all in with top pair top kicker or powerhouse hands on Party you'd be massive +EV....

Botting is big buisness in limit poker, has been for years.

STT bots are a more recent invention, but apparently exist too.

If you're interested check out. http://www.winholdem.net/ to see what the bad boy botters are up to these days.
Sad thing is, most of them don't think they are doing anything wrong. (That one of the boards on their forum is called "Anti-Detection Discussion" should tip them off, but the moral compass only spins where it wants to I guess.)

I like what Party do, better than the other sites plan of sticking their fingers in their ears and singing lalala. It doesn't stop the bots, but it's a pain in the arse for them. Other sites probably don't introduce similar measures as it makes the casual players aware that people are cheating them. There are bots on every major network though

very interesting read, thanks tank. Looks like the sites aren't too bothered about bots as long as they're bad A bot's rake is rake is as good as a human's.
Looks like the program 'scrapes' the card and bet info, and the botter covers his tracks by running the program on a remote screen with an admin tool.