Professional and Amateur poker players alike say poker bots just don't work...
AUTOMATICALLY RUBBISH The remaining concern lingering in the minds of new online players that somehow they’re going to come up against a brilliantly programmed robot which steals all their pots really has to be trashed once and for all. It’s nonsense and it’s great to see so many professional players coming out and saying so having tested the state of the art bots and beaten them with ease. One of them coined the delightful line, “Yeah, Bot…No Bot!” which is now doing the rounds of all the chat boxes in Little “online” Britain. Certainly pro’ player Carl Sampson’s study of the automated robot poker invasion is the final put-down, “They don’t work! The people selling them are con-merchants, as most-if not all-sites have sniffer programs than can detect if you’re running a “bot” on your computer. The security of the top poker sites is akin to large financial institutions.” If you couple all this with the fact that Phil “The Unabomber” Laak took on the world’s best robot last year, thrashed it and made the comment, “I’d sooner play a robot than a real player any day.” So, end of story, unless of course you’re a software engineer designing bot programs in which case you’ll be pumping out paragraphs of tech-waffle until the cows come home and learn how to play Texas Hold’em better than your granny.
POKER: THE NEW CHESS? It’s curious how many poker players give the same sure fire answer when confronted with the question: Why do you play poker? Hello! It’s for the MONEY, stupid! If you actually get to know poker players on a reasonable scale this is not the whole answer by any means. Of course winning money is a great yardstick by which to measure your prowess at your chosen sport but it’s not the full story. Most seasoned players can’t imagine life without the mental stimulation that social and online poker affords them. A lot will liken it to the Times crossword or chess in terms of how it taxes their brain. Most people in general love a mental challenge and if you throw in the obvious buzz that goes with a good gamble and the chance to win very large sums of cash you’re probably looking at what is about to become the world’s most popular game.
OR THE NEW SOCCER? Two major studies have shown that if online poker continues its popularity climb for another five years (which is all but inevitable) it will overtake football in terms of the number of people actively involved as either fans, viewers or players , both amateur and professional. We may not be too far away from Phil Ivey or Chris “Jesus” Ferguson being better known than Ronaldinio or David Beckham.
