Poker Bot Review

The site for online poker bot enthusiasts

Current Winner for Best Bot:

 Shanky Technologies Hold'em Bot  (BonusBots.com)

Welcome Poker Bot Enthusiasts

This website is dedicated to our favorite toy, the online pokerbot. Let's face it: The lower stakes Hold'em tables at most online casinos these days are becoming bot wars, like it or not. It's a game of who's bot can beat who's bot at the micro through 1/2 limits. And it's a fun game! Why not get in there with your own bot and see if you can beat the competition? The best one we've seen is the Shanky Technologies Holdem Bot available at www.bonusbots.com - which works at Full Tilt, Ultimate Bet, Bodog, and several smaller poker rooms. This bot actually plays No Limit and Pot Limit well, and all manner of tournaments! (They also sell very impressive bots for both Omaha Hi-Lo and Pot Limit Omaha-Hi.)

Types of Poker Bots 

The Shanky bots are near out of the box products; just open them, select a few user options, and let them loose. Perhaps you would find it more fun to design an entire playing profile yourself? You can do that too, by learning to use the simple commands known as PPL (Poker Programming Language). Most poker players pick it up quickly and you don't need any programming background. This way the user can control 100% of the bot's actions for any poker situation. The Bonus Bots forum has many free profiles available that are quite good, and an active marketplace where the members sell and trade profiles (not to mention add-on software such as automatic table-hoppers_.

Another popular type of online poker bot requires a third party software decision brain; the most widely used is Online Poker Inspector - affectionately known as "OPI" among poker bot enthusiasts. The problem with these programs is that the decision-programming is limited to what these 3rd party software programs are capable of. Consequently they are markedly inferior to a bot that was programmed up from scratch by a top player. The best product on the market in this category that we have seen so far is Poker Android.

On the other hand, if you are a programmer yourself and just want a head start on building a winning bot, then you will probably be happy with Win Holdem. This is a working poker bot platform which requires C/C++ programming knowledge in order to complete the playing profile and configure the software for use and different poker rooms. This route is both challenging and rewarding, but you are looking at quite a project before you have a winning program on your hands. (Actually most of the Win Holdem crowd has moved to a similar open-source platform known as Open Holdem.)

Bonus Hunting

The $600 sign-up bonus at Full Tilt and the $1,100 signup bonus at Ultimate Bet are nothing to sneeze at. With a break-even bot (one that doesn't lose), they are fully cashable while you sleep! Just be careful, because if you are using a losing bot you likely won't see any of that bonus and may end up losing money to boot. With a winning bot you should see all of those bonuses as profit, plus some winnings to boot (depending on the strategy you use for cashing them). This all boils down to a few crucial decisions, made over and over again.

Rakeback

Rakeback is a critical element for most pokerbot users. See our Pokerbot Strategies page for more info on this topic.

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