Use the term “poker bots” around a group of online poker players and you may be in for a few mixed reactions. Some will cringe, fearful of advancing technology that will soon make it impossible for a normal person to make any money playing online poker. Some will get angry, for mostly the same reasons. The rest make laugh, scoffing at what they consider scare tactics and urban myth. As one online magazine found out, when they set up a test to see poker bots in action, they are no myth.
By hooking up two machines on a network that included Internet access, the observed the poker software churning away, steadily adding money to an account by winning hand after hand. At the end of the day, there wasn’t a ton of money in the account, just around $100. Multiply this times a couple of dozen machines, however, and the money adds up.
Party Poker sent a written statement to the magazine at their inquiry, explaining that they have caught individuals who attempted to use poker bots and seized all their funds, so it shows that the poker industry is on alert to this insidious issue, but like many areas of poker industry, only time will tell how things will end up.
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