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- Saturday, 18 Feb 2006
As the online gambling industry grows and more and more players are looking for their big payoff at internet gambling sites, it seems that automated programs are taking over games. The newest thing for online gambling fans is installing ride-along programs to help them gain an edge over their competition. These "bots" are available for a plethora of different games including poker and blackjack, and they certainly do help you win a bit more. However, many believe that these games have no become unfair, especially when it comes to gambling tournaments.
Before pushing their chips into the pot at their local poker games people can always look into the eyes of their opponents and try and get a read on them. Even if they can’t mange to get a good read they can at least be certain that they are playing against a human player. That might sound trivial to some, but in the online gambling world it seems that people cannot even be assured of that. Concern has been growing for quite some time now about the existence of advanced card-playing robots that have the ability to outplay human opponents. Online gambling sites are worried enough about the problem that most of them have entire teams of programmers dedicated to detecting anyone who uses them.
Once caught the user’s can be barred from playing at the sites again. There is no question that poker bots exist. There are even a few that are commercially available. The question is how effective are these bots? Well that depends on which poker bot you are talking about. There are two main problems with most commercially available gambling bots. The first is that some are way too complicated for the average gambling fanuser to use. They require extensive set-up and advanced configuration that most of us mere mortals would find too difficult. The second problem associated with commercially available bots is detection. Online casinos do invest considerable resources in trying to catch people using them, this leaves the bot developers in a constant game of cat and mouse.
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