There are much simpler methods out there to create your own bot (and have been for quite some time now) which don't require writing the code from scratch. The difficulty of a poker bot, however, is creating a profitable ruleset. If you know anything about hold 'em, it would be much simpler to create a breakeven or profitable bot in limit games, since aggression and pot odds are not as influential. This is a very difficult proposition to say the least. And the online sites are always monitoring for bots. The penalties for getting caught include instant account termination and possible blacklistings on other sites (or perhaps termination on other sites as well. I really don't believe the risk is nearly worth the reward. If you're a winning poker player anyway, why not just continue to grind it out and move up in stakes. After all, the only way one could possibly build a profitable bot is if they were a profitable player to begin with. Also, these bots would probably have to remain in lower stakes games. Building a bot to play against players who constantly switch up their game and are less predictable than those at the low stakes tables would be a daunting task...
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