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12 March 2006 - by Brainmaker
  
What are pokerbots?

Simplified explanation, to get an understanding, of what a Pokerbot does.
 
Pokerbots are programs which makes it possible for the pokerbrain to automate the decision the pokerbrain gives directly to the pokerclient table by selecting the corresponding button (Folc, Check, Call, Raise). The pokerbrains tells you to bet and the pokerbot moves your mouse and clicks on the bet button. But the pokerbot can do more for you! Some pokerbots has special features built in like table hopping, sit out, or leave the table after you have won a certain amount of money. Also some bots are able to type text into the chat window to make the player believe you’re a human playing or sometimes the bot clicks the button after a delay of 2 secs. And the next time maybe he clicks the button in 1 sec. This to keep no betting pattern visible to the other players. Using a pokerbot is very, very handy indeed. It means that you can have your computer automatically play online poker while you are disturbed by a phone call or have to leave suddenly to do something else . Also it gets never tired. Great for when you have some bonus pending for release and you have to play 4 tables a time for three hours to have this juicy $500 bonus released in your account. You fire up your pokerbrain, select an bonus play safe and tight profile (GrinderT). Sit down at four tables, put the bot on auto pilot and off you go. Just an case scenario. There is something you should know about using a pokerbot. Som pokersite perceive it as some kind of cheating or some kind of unfair advantage. I have to disagree with them. It is the same technology pokersites use to shuffle the deck of cards. To have fast and randomly shuffling the deck to make sure every player gets random cards to play with and also to make sure that the fastest amount of play time can be generated for the rake they charge you for playing poker. Their other reasoning is that the bots are an unfair advantage to other players. What unfair advantage they are talking about? I play with my pokerbrain and pokerbot the same game of poker the other opponents are playing. I don’t see their cards, I do not phone or instant message my buddy who is at the table playing. I do not play in a group of players and switch account and enter jointly big tournaments to increase the change of winning as a group. Pokerbotters are at the tables occupying an seat, contribute to the game continuity and have the same bad beats, lucky streaks like other players. And also from a philosophical point of views might well be, why should bots be discriminated in the participating of the online poker community. Bots have feelings too. They surely want to win as much as we do and hate losing as much as we do! If I would play against a bot I would love it to exploit it weaknesses, learn from it, try to beat it, do anything possible to get him all-in. What a joy and positive contribution to the pokercommunity this new breed of pokerplayers. And if you can’t beat them…thats right…join them! And at pokerbrains.net your at the right place for it. ;) Becasue, after all, a pokerbot is as good as it pokerrbains let him be. That is why you need well designed poker playing profiles to give the poker bot the right decision to make.
Another great option some poker bots have is the table hopping feature some bot posesses.... This is one of the latest and greatest addition into the poker bot concept. Assume your at a table playing with ten players. You take down a few pots and a few more. The other players donot feel so lucky anymore and decide to sit out or leave the table. However, you prefer to play the full 10 handed ring game. This is where the great bot program come into play. It waits a few hands to see if the player are coming back. If not the bot leaves the table (taking your profits with you) and start to look for another table defined by some criterias you have told him to. Like, the bot sits down on a table with a minimum of 8 players, the game must be fixed limit holdem with 1-2 blinds. The bot looks in the poker lobby to find the table according to these criteria and sits down, wait for the big blind and continue his play for you on the new table.
The smart way to play is what some player like to call it!

Source: http://www.pokerbrains.net