They'll allow software that helps you make better decisions, but anything that acts for you generally isn't allowed. Once a computer program is taking actions for you, most poker sites consider it cheating. I myself have had to do a captcha while multi-tabling a large amount of tables.Īnd of course it's considered cheating. They will throw up captcha's if their system flags someone as potentially being a bot. It's fairly easy to detect them and PokerStars is quite diligent in that regard. I don't think online poker bots are a huge problem yet. He then won contracts with some of the Vegas casinos for LHE machines.
I can't find the article but a poker player/programmer spent years developing a limit Hold'em neural network that he fed millions of hands into, effectively teaching it the population tendencies. These are built using neural networks as well. They likely can grind out a profit, albeit not a large one.Ĭertain Vegas casinos are also offering limit Hold'em machines where you can play against AI. population tendencies, with pre-programmed adjustments for certain player types and frequencies. Any poker bot not based on a neural network is liking just playing a static maximally exploitative strategy vs. As for online poker bots actually playing, and avoiding detection, on PokerStars for instance. That's only being used in training software though. From what I've heard and read, one of the most advanced poker bots is PokerSnowie, an artificial intelligence built using a neural network.