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Pokerbotting: Legal and Moral, says The Guardian |
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Written by Indiana |
The Guardian, one of the most respected UK newspapers published a recent article on pokerboting, namely, that Pokerbotting ain't illegal. "Does pokerbotting imply that you're breaking the law? The short answer is no." - writes Robert Blincoe after consulting with laywers. Using pokerbot might be a breach of contact of some casinos that has decided to not allow pokerbots, but even on these sites breaching the ToS isn't something desiring special attention. "If breaching T&Cs is a crime, almost everyone's doing it." says the article. The underlying problem here is that cheating in online games is normally defined as business specific, instead of having a common, scientific game theory and computer science based definition of that. Such would clearly separate activities like botting, which does not give unfair advantage from game theory standpoint, from cheating: like collusion or client/server hacking that provides one with such advantage.
Not only Brits has developed the most elaborated laws with regard to regulating gambling, but they are also clearly ahead with better educated journalism. |
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PCPlus on Pokerbots and PokerAI |
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Written by Indiana |
"Terry Manhattan discovers how using software analytical tools and artificial intelligence makes for a more interesting game", PCPlus, from June 2008. We just found another article featuring pokerbots as well as the number one organized pokerbotting community, PokerAI.org. This time it was in the UK's PCPlus magazine. You can read sample preview of this article here, or comment on it in our forums.
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Written by Indiana |
Blasting the status quo from its first article, CodingTheWheel is here to stay. The author has put already more than ten interesting, informative, and well-thought poker and pokerbotting articles, a jump start for any newbie in his poker botting career. |
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2+2 Best Botter Award (most vocal anyways) |
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Written by Indiana |
I think I just got the 2+2 best botter award: "Indiana is probably the biggest (well most vocal anyways) pro botter on 2+2". Thank you, ty, mam, dad, tyvm. Special thanks go to my producers of course - PokerStars, for giving me their support when I most needed it. |
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PokerAI Terms of Service Agreement |
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Written by Indiana |
After the PokerAI terms of service agreement was updated (so that employees working for online poker provider companies are not allowed to browse it), our ToS was already breached by PokerStars. Following our obligation to take the integrity of our website seriously, we have send them a warning notice. |
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Heads-up Limit Mastered by bots |
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Written by Indiana |
The second Man vs. Machine match took place on July 3-6, where a lineup of elite players from Stoxpoker.com, an internet poker training site, went head to head with the latest version of Polaris, a poker AI designed by the University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group (http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/). Polaris won with a final record of 3-2-1, and provided the CPRG with their first win over human opponents. The CPRG had created a similar event last year against professionals Phil Laak and Ali Eslami where Polaris finished with a final record of 1 win, 2 losses, and 1 tie. Read more in the Stoxpoker press release. |
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Written by Indiana |
The Danish poker magazine www.acemag.dk published an article on pokerbots, almost ten pages long, following info collection from PokerAI Wiki and interviewing people in the pokerAI forums. The final article got published, and your can view some of it (collage and interview with Indiana) as well as read the english translation of the interview in this thread.
Update: The article and the interview was later on reprinted in full in the German edition of AceMag. Scanned version is available (search and ask in the forums). I would, by the way, really recommend the AceMag magazine, and subscribed for it myself. It's better than any other junk that you would locally get in German language. |
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Written by Indiana |
The PokerAI Wiki is now up and running. Join and help to build the complete reference that will cover all aspects of computer poker play: http://pokerbots.org/wiki, or http://pokerai.org/wiki.
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Written by Indiana |
Article edited: March 2008.
Since the initial announcement OpenHoldem picked up a lot of traction, surpasing in popularity its starting point, the WinHoldem bot framework. OpenHoldem is open source, hence completely free. The authors initially claimed full backward compatibily with WinHoldEm, and soon started to extend it with many new unique features. The OpenHoldem documentation and casino support already exceeds the one of WinHoldem too. The main links (e.g. OpenHoldem Webpage and download sections; OpenHoldem forums, and so on) can be found at http://openholdem.org. |
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Pokerbot World Championship (PWBC) |
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Written by Indiana |
The guy on the picture? It's Matrix. One of the "bots", that got kicked out early and failed to make history during the first real money, open to any human or bot live digital poker event - Poker bot world championship (PBWC). The official results are here and if you want to get some impressions of the event, follow the action in that thread. Well, I can only regret that this year I missed PWBC event (as well as Alberta's bot only event earlier). Something to definetely plan for next year. |
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Written by Indiana |
Pokerai.org hand history exchange and ftp is up and running. Two options are available. You can get access and download all publicly available hand histories, and contribute as many or as little hands as you wish. Alternatively, if you contribute 500k datamined hands, you will get access to the full private hand history collection (that also contain all 500k submisions).
Read more here.
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