I have been tinkering with bots since 1999 about a year after I started playing online poker, I originated in the online security sector of the computing industry as my day job. I have created and successfully implented several different versions of poker bots I used them mostly in limit holdem, 7 card stud, and omaha hi lo Now my programs took me about 2 years to get running consistantly profitable. I have analyzed millions of hands of data from 20-30 different poker sites which some no longer exsist. At the height of my operation I had 20 to 30 computers running at my house running 24 hours a day rotating every 8-10 hours with different accounts and sites, each account could play up to 8 tables depending on the poker site, I had 6 different ISP providers and a fractional T3 line dedicated to my poker botting. eventually I was booted from all major sites I was able to make short returns to different sites by using my internet security knowledge to fly under the radar for a while but it was only a matter of time. So after getting tired of hiding from the poker sites I started a computer team and we had about 15-20 people heading the opration all with multiple accounts using my software. My software was used all the way up to 30-60 limit holdem 20-40 limit was my stopping ground on many sites. My software was easy to program and could have been moved to any site at any time it was programmed relatively easily once I figured out what I was looking for and how to implement it in my software design, botting was easy. This woked fantastic till sometime in 2005 when things when south i wasn't getting booted from certain sites and then I realized what the problem was the poker site always wins so in 2006 I quit playing. Let me just say that don't plan on botting for a living any longer the sites have figured out a way to stop this. If your so inclined and feel like searching there are articles and entries written about the inter workings of sites and random number generators, pattern recognition and it clears up alot of the speculation about what can and cannot be done.
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