August 28, 2005

• The bot, which, understandibly, is banned from a number of online poker sites. How to prevent detection. Watch that money rolling in.
• Heh. Basically an automated card shark. It's a problem as old as the casinos themselves, just that instead of a smart human mind counting cards, it's now a bot.
• The interesting thing to me is the fact that the authors are selling the program instead of just using it themselves. Evidently there's more money to be made in selling people a program to cheat at poker that in the cheating itself.
• Because there's a limit to how much you can get on your own, ThreeDayMonk. To draw an example from a favourite author of mine, if you found a way of shaving off gold from gold coins in pre-industrial Europe, and re-mill the edges to hide the shaving, would you try and do it on your own? You'd never get enough gold coins to make it worth your while. Lease out the technique to those that who do business and pocket a fraction of the "earnings". Big bucks.
• Oh, I understand that perfectly. I didn't say that I don't understand it, just that it's interesting (for precisely the reasons you mention). Facilitating the "crime" (I use the word loosely in this case) is a safer and more profitable business than the crime itself. Let other people take the risk and do the hard work, and you come out on top.
• I assumed this was going to be a post about quid.
• Plus, realistically, you put the online casinos in the same space as the RIAA - chasing after those people who give them money (to play.) I am surprised that the online casinos don't put something up front that the players agree not to use any sort of minotoring software, and can be find liable for such. I'm also suprised they don't try to go after the people who make this sort of software. And then eventually it'll go open source as they online casinos with lots of money, might try to sue the pokerbot companies out of existence. Still, very interesting.
• Preventing Online Poker a Matter of "National Security"