PokerCollectif had talked you about a few cases of bots, i.e. robots that play poker at some online poker sites. These robots are programmed to play a certain style. Small limits, they can be winners at 1 or 2 big blinds per 100 hands. At slightly higher levels, they can be 'break even'. But the rake they generate is all that interests the author of the robot in question.
Recently, a recent case of bot was discovered by "10KHero", a micro limits player who has as a project to win $ 10,000 by playing poker with a single initial deposit of $ 40.
"10KHero" wants to settle on a heads-up on the Merge network table and look at players who are waiting. He spotted one with a high percentage of c - bet in position, a low rate of aggression out of position (check-call on all streets with top pair top kicker), a high percentage of fold to the 3bet and other statistics obtained on PokerTableRating that suggests it that the player will never fit.
It therefore decided to play "chinatownqueen" (which, according to PTR, is to this day a winning player all the same). Our hero also realized that "chinatownqueen" was still the same games. They systematically 4bettait TT and better, was still with the 3bet folder still and, even more interesting, was online almost 24 hours on 24.
By studying the robot more closely, it realized that it 4bettait 5% of the time on a long sample. And this 5% was not polarized, it was the top of range.
With this information in mind, it becomes easy to make large fold. In aggressive parts of heads up, a hand like 99 becomes a 5 quite easy all-in bet. Against the bot that does 4bet top 5% of its range, it becomes an easy fold given that our pair of 9 will have 35% equity versus the range of the robot.
Later, "10KHero" view of other bots on the Merge network. 15 to be exact with the following names:
AndrzejLR
blisterer
chinatownqueen
coldasice22
GHETTOBLASTER
FOVAMEEE
N1xDSD1
RPMPMSRP
Slawomir
CannicaGirl
nalenef1134
WCToiletWC
takeurmonyandrun
RUSSIANFLOWER
Sloty4UrGF
Here are the statistics of two of the robots. Note that against the least bit intelligent player, statistics of these robots have all the statistics of a big fish.
Most were winning players, which is very surprising. According to "10KHero", they were all in the same way and it was possible all operate in the same way.
Rather than report to support, our friend decided to punish them by exploiting. In all, he has earned $ 13,000 against these bots in 30,000 hands of NL50, which represents a number of big blind per 100 hands quite enviable.
From a certain point, the only adjustment that bots have done, is to put "10KHero" on a blacklist. They had been programmed to not to play against a player after losing a certain amount against this player.
Obviously, the days of easy money could not last forever and the Member "KingOfAces" on Twoplustwo recently made a post on the forum to denounce the situation and so that it blocked the accounts of the robots.
Following this post, several asked about the morality of taking money from cheaters. If you spot a bot, will you postpone or attempt to exploit? East - this morale according to you?
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