https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1616139.msg16861031#msg16861031You probably make money out of these BOT accounts but I hope you are aware that this is bad for everyone (players, site, affiliates) that they can run wild on a site and that, in the long term, it surely means the end of online poker.
So I do hope youre gonna push very hard the Betcoin Management so that they finally take actions against the BOT accounts that are cheating the players since months on Betcoin.
I copy/paste here what I said on the Betcoin BTC thread in case my post is being nuked there.
I am going to try to raise awareness about the current integrity of the cash games on Betcoin during the past few months since just talking about it on the tables seems insufficient considering the cheaters still get action.
Cliff: There is none.
It has been 6 months since I try to get Betcoin management to take measures against BOTS playing on the site, to no end.
The accounts in question are: Durrr / Duremar22 (Durrr is not playing anymore, it has been replaced by the Duremar22 account) and 8microman.
Durrr/Duremar22 playing 200NL and 100NL tables in the morning CET
8microman being in charge of playing 100NL and 50NL in the afternoon CET.
All those accounts are using the same based BOT (each operator can certainly tweak it but at its core the way it acts remains the same)
The accusation of them being BOTS is not a wild speculation, it is relaying on:
/.Stats on key points
/.Sizings
/.Timing tells
/.Antics at the tables.
Each alone not being enough (tho, the stats converging on a lot of key points over a large sample size is enough but you need to have a big DB), altogether them using the same based BOT is an evidence.
I would not go into specifics as I did with Betcoin management because I certainly do not want to help the BOT maker to tweak it and render it harder to spot.
The reaction of Betcoin management has simply been to do nothing.
When after a couple of months the only answer I can get is that they are on it and they are still compiling data it sadly became obvious that they didnt intend to do anything.
We are not talking about a site with hundreds of players on average in cash games. Betcoin, according to Pokerscout, has an average of 20 cash game players.
20 players on average and they cannot spot / ban BOTS with such a low player pool.
It can only be either sheer incompetence or malicious intent.
Giving the track record of Betcoin, I would go for the former but that still not make it ok as players on Betcoin are getting cheated everyday by those BOTS.