A Commercial Internet Poker Bot?
Published: Friday, March 04, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
A COMMERCIAL POKER BOT?
Robotic collusion?
Intriguing press releases
from a company called Casino Robots were cropping up all over the Internet this
week, punting ".....an intelligent software robot capable of consistently
winning games of Texas Hold'Em Poker at popular online Poker Rooms."
Poker Robot Collusion Edition for Windows is claimed to be able automatically
and simultaneously to play in up to nine of the ten seats available per game,
for real money, using a strategy advocated by an unidentified nine-time World
Champion of Poker. No knowledge or experience of Poker is required, the blurb
claims.
"This combination of statistically sound strategy and awareness
of nine of the ten hands in play inevitably results in consistent wins for the
robot Poker players," the release reveals. "No knowledge or experience
of Poker is required. However, if the user wishes to play in multiple seats themselves
they can manually override the robot player decisions with the click of a mouse
button. Users can also alter the rank of hands played, the types of table to be
selected and the duration of play. The progress of each game session is displayed
and updated in real-time. Poker Robot Collusion Edition also draws upon the analytical
capabilities of Poker Trainer, our comprehensive Texas Hold'Em Poker odds calculator
and opponent analysis tool."
Internet poker is big business, with
an estimated US$180 million wagered at online Poker tables every day. Playing
(or should that be 'preying') on this trend, Casino Robots claims that its software
demonstrates that online Poker Rooms are unable to prevent collusion. "Whilst
it may on occasion be suspected, it remains impossible to prove that collusion
has occurred." the hype continues, with apparent scant regard for the evils
of collusion and cheating.
This ethics-challenged provider also develops
intelligent software capable of playing Blackjack, Poker and Roulette at popular
online Poker Rooms and Casinos.
Initial poker player reaction has been
both critical of collusion and cynical about this software.
Something tells us that it will not be long before a counter measure is active...there might even be one available right now.
