#SHANKY BOT 2018 SOFTWARE RUNNING DURING#
#SHANKY BOT 2018 MANUAL REVIEW OF#

I hope to shed some light on the current economy of botting and to help people understand the relationship between botting and poker sites. I have carefully timed this post after steadily withdrawing all funds from ACR. Bots Intended for 'Intellectual Exercises' Still, the success ratio of these bots in years past has been questionable, as humans seem to understand the simple nuances of the game better then their robotic counterparts.I have decided to retire from botting and focus my energy on something more meaningful. Shanky Technologies, one such retail site, sells licenses for the 'Holdem Poker Bot' for 129 per year.

Shanky Bot 2018 Software Running During

The more time consuming endeavor is getting the bot to play well. In general, bots in 2016 all come equipped (or can be equipped) with stealth technology that will remove any overt indications of the software running during a session they will generally show up as some nondescript process running in the background on task manager.Finding or building a bot is the easy part. Plug-n-play systems generally require minimal technical expertise whereas **** and similar frameworks will require intermediate programming experience. **** and **** accomplish the task well, but they have some technical limitations **** is a open-source project that is better for custom-building a bot for a specific system and poker room. Categories: MTT, 6max, 9max/10max.Currently, there are quite a few viable solutions for prospective botters to help connect the bot engine to the poker room. Updated to version 3.78 in March, 2018.

This used to be the barrier to botting a couple of years ago but with the proliferation of PPL (or oPPL), it now takes only a couple of hours to learn the syntax of coding your bot profile. The best solution is to write your own profile. There are forums and marketplaces where a botter can buy better profiles, but these can't play very profitably above 10NL on most sites.

Shanky Bot 2018 Manual Review Of

Around month 3 is when the bot really took off, after I worked tirelessly to integrate a Poker Tracker database with the bot profile. It wouldn't always play the same hand the same way, wouldn't always play a missed flop the same way, wouldn't always valuebet the same amount, etc., and would use the half-pot/2/3 pot instead of typing in weird bet amounts. For example, in addition to the stealth, my bot would randomly sit out and take breaks every couple of hours, never played for more than 6 hours at a time, frequently switched tables and joined waiting lists (with the aid of a hopper software), misclicked every so often, typed short comments in the chatbox on rare occasions, and had randomness built into the playing profile. Over the course of the next few months, I steadily improved the bot's performance based on manual review of hand histories and results.If you construct a good bot, it is impossible for other players to suspect the bot. For me, it took me about a week to write a profile that played well enough to beat 10NL and about a month of reworking that profile to beat 50nl at a solid clip.

I was happy sticking to the lower levels, because for me, it was more about the technical challenge of the project, not necessarily the money.I would suspect that probably 10-15% of the players on ACR 50nl and below are bots. I never attempted 200nl because the reg pool thins out a bit and the overall better caliber of players made me hesitant to throw a bot in there: 1) because it would take constant reconfiguration to adjust to the regs adjusting to the bot, and 2) because the small pool of better regs might discover the bot's existence much faster. Those who folds to 3bets too often, those who 3bet light OOP, those who folded to positional cbets unless they had top pair+, etc.50nl was the bread and butter, and 100nl was profitable to a smaller degree. It would exploit players based on tendencies: e.g. It would play a nit much differently than it would a lag, a fish differently than a rock.

He's not claiming to have crushed middle and high limits for 6 and 7 figures.He's admitting that he never went above 100NL, and only cleared 30k.He is correct that Bovada generally doesn't give a shit about bots. Enough technical details are provided, the story adds up, and it isn't too outlandish. Bots pay good, steady rake and seldom complain about anything on the site.I think I believe him. As long as the bot isn't the target of multiple complaints from a whole bunch of players, both sites are pretty bot-friendly. In general WPN and Bovada don't mind bots. The single-operator bots (mostly US operators) that are good will be good enough in both play and acting 'human-like' to avoid any suspicions.

I didn't get anything because it appears the bots did not play at 30-60 limit holdem. However, this seemed to occur because it was a massive botting network engaging in collusion, so there were probably enough complaints to where Bovada took action.Recall that Bovada gave a massive refund due to a botting network being caught, where it seemed people recevied a total of about $1 million dollars BACK. I didn't get anything because it appears the bots did not play at 30-60 limit holdem. That is also consistent with how a botter would really think.Recall that Bovada gave a massive refund due to a botting network being caught, where it seemed people recevied a total of about $1 million dollars BACK. Programming the occasional misclick was especially genius.I can't praise the guy, because he still cheated, but at least he's giving us a look into his process.Also interesting how he sent the bots to play against lower limit players, fearing that higher limit players would recognize that he was botting.

I'm not sure if I believe that but I'm guessing basic AI is within the realm of possibility. Warbot claims that they have profiles which can actually learn and adjust on the fly even within tournies. I suspect that's why many pay for Warbot which is built on OpenHoldem and keep their table maps updated and just concern themselves with the profiles. Also everytime the software is updated by the poker rooms they have to reprogram the table maps. OpenHoldem is in fact freeware which he's right you have to program intensely.

For example, bots will sometimes severely underplay non-nut flushes.- Too many loose river calls, especially at limit holdem. This makes them capable of beating donks at micro and low limits, but probably need a lot more work to be able to beat anything tougher than that.Limit holdem bots are easier to program because the game is more mathematical and easier to calculate decisions, whereas NL often involves decisions made based upon feel.Bots are never good at reasoning out how aggressive to get with good but non-nut hands, which can be problematic at NL.There are two signs I've noticed regarding playing a bot (ignoring timing and overly consistent play, which can also indicate it):- Strange, overly cautious play involving excellent but non-nut hands. I keep my ear to the ground because honestly the only way to keep ahead of the bots at times is to know what the hell they are up to.Yeah, I am skeptical that these bots are complex enough to learn.And on Bovada, they can't learn - at least not beyond the few hands played against opponents at the same table.Without being familiar with them, I am guessing that they play fairly ABC poker, with a few modifications so as to not look like bots.