Oh snap, bot beat me

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NewbSaibot United States. Jun 09 2010 18:09. Posts 4948

Maybe.... I've actually been refunded for some HU SNG's on FTP whereby apparently I was playing a bot. This was a few months ago and I never reported it b/c we didnt play enough for it to really register on me, but FTP emailed me about it and gave me $15 or so which amounted to my losses in the session. I knew where it happened b/c I had only played some $1 HU sng's and remember some psycho just speed shipping hands at random and insta-rematching me until he just stopped all the sudden.

Well I just ran into exactly the same thing again today. Cept this time the guy hung around for 40 matches I think, namely because we were semi-breakeven. These were the $1 hu sng's again and the play was identical. This time I decided to actually email FTP about it because after last time I feel I knew what to look for. Below is my account of the issue;

1) Every one of his actions was too fast to be human. He would always instantly check, instantly fold, instantly shove allin, instantly raise, etc. Not even 1 second in delay between actions. I wouldnt even have my finger off the mouse button before he would have already made his next action. He was only playing 1 table vs me, so not table ninja or AHK actions signifying someone just playing fast.

2) At the rematch screen this particular player would often wait 5-10 seconds before choosing to rematch me. You can tell this by observing the rematch status under the player names, it says accepted or declined. However if I chose to rematch him before he chose to rematch me, he would instantly accept and the next game would start.

3) While it is hard to judge the quality of someones play, a lot of his betting patterns seemed to be scripted. I called a few of his random shoves out of curiosity once I became concerned he was a bot, and I saw completely random hands that made no sense. I know players can bet any way they choose, but combined with the above factors it seemed more like a series of triggers were prompting the bot to make these plays. And they werent always shoves. On occasion it would be like half pot, or a minbet, or whatever. The sheer randomness makes it seem more botlike than any human would do.

4) He made a few random comments such as he enjoyed playing vs me, smiley faces, "hehe" and "nh" auto comments, etc, which looked to be attempts to sound human. My chat is banned so I could not respond to verify.

5) After I started winning several sessions in a row he suddenly disappeared from the site.

I probably would have assumed this was just some maniac with the fastest hands in the world again, but after being refunded for cheating before I obviously have to give some credibility to the issue. Ultimately I'm more disappointed that I lost to AI than some maniac lol. I finished this little excercise - 6 BI's, which I guess aint that bad really. Plus several of those were some insane suckouts, like aipf with 23 vs my A3 and he runner runners a straight, or getting 2 outered 44 vs 88. When I suspected he was a bot I started open shipping a few hands on him like Qx and Kx and he snapped with stuff like 95o and J6o and Q2o, etc. But then OTHER times he'd actually fold. Really bizarre. I know that makes it the most poorly programmed bot in the world, but maybe there is some stupid shitty romanian bot software out there that fucks up the game when people use it and plays like this.

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bye now

Last edit: 09/06/2010 18:13

Jun Croatia. Jun 09 2010 18:33. Posts 825

Wow, wouldnt be bad to make his screenname public? Damn botting is pathetic

Life is a coinflip

edzwoo United States. Jun 09 2010 18:52. Posts 5911

cant you like take flops and minbet and stuff?

player999 Brasil. Jun 09 2010 22:01. Posts 7978

On June 09 2010 17:52 edzwoo wrote:
cant you like take flops and minbet and stuff?

yep, should be pretty ez to beat

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