Following on from my most recent trials I used my poker bot in some Sit & Go tournaments over the past weekend - and the results held up yet again. I'm still letting the bot run on the micro stakes ring games when I'm out and about (even if it's only making a few dollars an hour this way every little helps!). But in the tournaments I'm really steaing a march and taking consistently 2nd and 3rd places over and over. I stupidly tried to take control of one game in the end (my human ego took over!) and ended up in 4th. Up until I watched the bot play I thought I was a reasonable poker player!
In some more research over the weekend I see a few more 'free' bots have appeared on some of the popular download sites. These are 'toys' and if you want to play they're a good way of getting into the whole concept of poker robots - but don't put your hard earned cash up for them to play with! I remain a fan of and have increasing evidence of the sucess in real online poker games of my current bot.
Showing posts with label poker bot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poker bot. Show all posts
Monday, April 21, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Dominating Low Stakes Sit & Go Tournaments with my Poker Bot
My initial trials with my current poker bot were frustrating - there would be good runs of winning then I'd see my profits slipback. Any experienced poker play or mathematician will tell you this is down to 'variance' and it's something we have to live with. Even with 'expert play' by a poker bot you are reliant on some decent cards - or some poor players at the tables! For the latter you can of course sway things in your favour with table selection software - freely available on the net.
In recent weeks I've started trialling the bot at low stakes 'sit and go' tournaments and the results have been far more impressive. To explain for any newcomers, in these tournaments you pay a few dollars to buy in and are given a stack of chips - say $1000 - as play money. It's then a knockout where players are eliminated as they run out of chips and there is prize money paid from the collected players' buy ins to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
The bot consistently wins for me at these touraments with the right settings. In my last ten tournaments it's taken 2 first places, 2 second and 5 3rds. I'm in the money!
As any experienced player will tell you in the early stages many players throw in large amounts of chips when they hold average or poor cards - often outof sheer boredom and wanting to see some action! The poker bot doesn't get bored of course, it just sits there patiently waiting for some cards really worth playing and when it does it has the advantage to win.
I'm still plating at the micro tables during the day but the tournaments really seem the way to go to make poker bot profits.
In recent weeks I've started trialling the bot at low stakes 'sit and go' tournaments and the results have been far more impressive. To explain for any newcomers, in these tournaments you pay a few dollars to buy in and are given a stack of chips - say $1000 - as play money. It's then a knockout where players are eliminated as they run out of chips and there is prize money paid from the collected players' buy ins to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
The bot consistently wins for me at these touraments with the right settings. In my last ten tournaments it's taken 2 first places, 2 second and 5 3rds. I'm in the money!
As any experienced player will tell you in the early stages many players throw in large amounts of chips when they hold average or poor cards - often outof sheer boredom and wanting to see some action! The poker bot doesn't get bored of course, it just sits there patiently waiting for some cards really worth playing and when it does it has the advantage to win.
I'm still plating at the micro tables during the day but the tournaments really seem the way to go to make poker bot profits.
Monday, April 14, 2008
The Holy Grail of Poker Bots?
The majority of poker bots I've trialled have simply leaked away money and left me thinking I'd never find a winning poker tool. Most work by connecting an exisitng poker calculator software tool - which can be useful for calculating pot odds etc - to a program which carries out the recommended actions. This is where they fall down - the moves and plays are recommended and not necessarily the right play in the current game taking into account player styles etc.
The poker bot I now use - which has been designed and build by Shanky Technologies
http://www.bonusbots.com differs in that it's a wholly integrated piece of software. These guys are clearly very experienced online poker players themselved and the analysis which has gone into the product is staggering. Since launch the bot has been upgraded several times based on feedback from customers playing poker in the real environment.
The developer, Jetter, explains that gaming-assistance software is simply a tool and still requires application by the user in order to be effective. "Our pokerbot plays extremely well, but you do need to find a profitable game environment to put it in. A lot of our customers are good players themselves who just use the program to hold their place in juicy games while they eat dinner, or play out their customer reward points in freeroll tournaments."
The question of whether or not a computer program can beat good poker players has been hotly debated among poker professionals in recent years. Poker is a game of incomplete information and psychology, making the programming more challenging than creating chess computers.
In addition to the actual poker bot it's essential that you take advantage of the generous sign up bonuses various casinos offer and 'rakeback' offers. In effect this means all you need the bot to do is break even or even make a small loss and you can turn a profit - this may sound confusing but stick with me!
The poker bot I now use - which has been designed and build by Shanky Technologies
http://www.bonusbots.com differs in that it's a wholly integrated piece of software. These guys are clearly very experienced online poker players themselved and the analysis which has gone into the product is staggering. Since launch the bot has been upgraded several times based on feedback from customers playing poker in the real environment.
The developer, Jetter, explains that gaming-assistance software is simply a tool and still requires application by the user in order to be effective. "Our pokerbot plays extremely well, but you do need to find a profitable game environment to put it in. A lot of our customers are good players themselves who just use the program to hold their place in juicy games while they eat dinner, or play out their customer reward points in freeroll tournaments."
The question of whether or not a computer program can beat good poker players has been hotly debated among poker professionals in recent years. Poker is a game of incomplete information and psychology, making the programming more challenging than creating chess computers.
In addition to the actual poker bot it's essential that you take advantage of the generous sign up bonuses various casinos offer and 'rakeback' offers. In effect this means all you need the bot to do is break even or even make a small loss and you can turn a profit - this may sound confusing but stick with me!
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