Full Tilt Poker Bot  

Bots for Full Tilt

Full Tilt is a botter's Paradise. They are the second-largest poker room on the internet now, and offer a juicy signup bonus along with a 27% rakeback deal when you get done clearing that (in fact the rakeback deal is even better than the signup bonus). It doesn't get any better than this.

The U.S.-player fallout situation fueled their tables with loose-action. Poor players such as former PartyPoker nuts arrived in droves. More recently, when Doyle's Room dropped it's USA player base they conveniently transferred all their player accounts over to Full Tilt. The result is a solid base of casual players and a dynamite online poker venue.

Our favorite bot (the only one we have found which actually wins) works at Full Tilt, along with a few other rooms. The Shanky Technologies Hold'em bot is designed to play well at 6-max tables and full ring games at both NL and Limit, plus all manner of tournaments. This was smart programming, because the 6-max tables are the most popular these days by far. Full Tilt has a ton of them at the lower limits going at any given time and a bot which just plays solid poker (like this one) has an easy time grinding out profits.

The 6-Max tables also tend to be less populated by other bots, as it is easier to program a tight-solid profile than the solid-aggressive style necessary for beating short-handed games. Because of this, the overwhelming majority of OPI-profile bots are created for full 9-handed tables. This is actually too bad - because the Shanky bot will beat the pants off those OPI-profile bots! (In our opinion all of the OPI bots are at Ongame anyway.)

Some of the features we really like about the Shanky bot are:

	Takes action on previous betting rounds into consideration in decision-making
	Makes reasonably aggressive pre-flop raises
	Makes wise standard-continuation bets on the flop, stealing many small pots
	Check-raises well in certain situations
	Seems to make good pot-odds decisions on drawing hands
	Randomizes decisions in some bluffing situations
	Plays heads-up well
	Difficult to detect as it disguises itself as common applications to screen scrapers
	Excellent support and fast upgrades when Full Tilt upgrades their software
	Is now 100% user-configurable with an easy Poker Programming Language (PPL)
	Makes money fairly steadily and the losing streaks don't seem to get extended

As you can see, those are some good features that we just haven't seen in any other commercially-available pokerbot. Shanky Technologies maintains a terrific active support forum on their site where many casino bonus hunters hang out and chat. You can download the free trial version from their site and run it for 200 hands before needing to purchase the license. Here is the link:

www.bonusbots.com