The Threat of Poker Bot to Fair Gambling

Many online gambling establishments particularly the online casinos and online poker room operators are getting alarmed on the growing threat of poker bot to their fair gambling policy. Since the availability of poker bots in the market many poker players use poker bots to play their poker games for them against human players online.

A poker bot is programmable robot software that plays poker online in lieu of its operator. It has the capacity to generate profit continuously for a poker player's behalf by playing poker online with relentless effort and with continued generation of profit.

Unlike human poker players, the poker bot has no emotion hence they are not vulnerable to make mistakes based on a tilt. A tilt is the emotional condition of a poker player when they are busted or are set into a trap of the opponent's bluff and lost a hand. Playing on a tilt can make a player vulnerable to playing incorrect poker strategy, a condition that is not possible for a poker bot.

A poker bot is programmed in a manner that it can calculate the odds of their playing hands and make decisions that are based on a good poker play and hand decisions. It can play as long as its user wants without faltering on its efficiency of play performance.

These conditions give poker bot an advantage play over poker players especially weak players whose inability to play good poker strategy makes it more vulnerable for the poker bot to beat. The game of poker by a poker bot user is effortless as the game is being played by a computer software player in the form of a poker bot.

Furthermore, human players are likely to commit incorrect poker play due to human errors which gives a poker bot significant advantage play over human players. Poker bot can strongly play poker at fixed limit games and against weak to average poker players.

Because of these unfair conditions the fair gambling policy of online gambling sites are threaten with a breach of poker bot playing against human players. Worse, a poker bot called WinHoldem is currently being elusively used by some poker gamblers to collude playing in an online poker site.

This poker bot software poses a menacing threat against the reputation of online gambling sites that promote fair gambling on their gambling establishment. Hence this provoked online casinos and online poker sites to apply stringent and drastic sanctions against players found to be using cheating poker bot software on their site.

The most common sanction for cheaters harboring the use of poker bots are complete banning of the player's online account and confiscating whatever bankroll funds remaining on it. Furthermore, online gambling sites are becoming more ardent on monitoring unusual activities that can strongly indicate the activity of poker bots.

Players suspected of using poker bots are typically requested by poker sites to present a copy of all log files from their hard drive to ensure no poker bot is installed to their computer before processing any withdrawal request of suspected players.

Although poker bots are not as efficient as professional poker players, they continue to become a menace targeting low stakes and weak to regular poker players to beat who spend large amount of gambling funds to be lost only over a poker robot player.