Has anyone had any experience with poker bot software. I have read a few things on these different softwares and they appear to do the trick for people. However, I am seeing huge controversy between the users and the online companies they are being used against. In fact I was reading that 1 carribean casino is fighting over a million dollar payout to someone because they were said to be using a poker bot. Anyone know anything about this story? What are your thoughts on the bot?

I think they should definitely be banned, but it will be a constant ongoing struggle. People will always spend enormous amounts of time and effort figuring out how to cheat instead of learning to do something properly.

I hope the poker sites stay ahead of these poker bots and keep them off of the sites.

If people want to create poker bots maybe they could have a site where they play against each other. Anybody that wants to play agianst them knows that they are playing against a poker bot.

I have heard of people using them but so many poker rooms have their methods of catching them that hopefully there arent many out there. I would only play at the popular rooms that have methods of detecting these bots. Even if you do happen to play a bot, they are just playing statistics and can be beat if you have a better hand, they arent perfect. Would just be hard to bluff a bot :)

I think there are more bots out there than most will admit too but I welcome them.

I just don't think they can make a bot that will consistently beat a human player..just my 2 cents.

Actually, bluffing a bot is easy....unless he is holding a hand :D

Interesting thoughts. I have not used one before, but I have looked over a few of them. Now, with many of the online poker rooms - these are forbidden. Anyway, I think it is still too early in this day and age to be relying on software to make decisions with your money. If I am going to lose, let it be my decision - not a software runnning in the background. On the other hand, I have seen several stories of great victories with the poker bot.

I dont give them much thought whle i play online, I do find the actual player against bot and bot against bot competitions interesting though :)