[mian2zi3]

I built a bot that used screen scraping, OCR and play reconstruction from the beginning. I had pretty generic logic to handle all the major sites. When a site changed up their display, I just generalized my approach to handle it. I don't really see how they could counter this in general. My bot was never detected. I timed my bot based on statistics I gathered from other human players, including play schedule, breaks, click response time, etc.

I know a guy who worked for an international gambling syndicate, primarily betting on horse races. According to him, they tried to get into online poker bots, but kept getting caught. It sounded like they were using groups of bots and collusion, which I think is how they were detected.

[jberryman]

Did you make money?

[mian2zi3]

No. I don't really play poker. I was responsible for the software. My poker guy didn't step up to do the strategy. I thought about learning poker seriously myself, but eventually decided getting a PhD in math was a better use of time, so I went that route.