Jaguar Pokerbot  

Jaguar Poker Bot Review

We are having a hard time knowing just what to think about the product being sold as "Jaguar Pokerbot." It certainly isn't in the same class as the Shanky Technologies poker bots. But to be fair, nothing else we have seen so far is either. So it's only right to compare it to other second-class products (such as the OPI bots and ICM-bot).

To it's credit, it can play poker post flop (unlike the ICM bot). However it doesn't play good poker post-flop, not good enough to win over a long period of time anyway. There are just too many leaks in it's programming.

But the main problem is the lack of user-configurable variables, which is the same problem that the OPI bots have. There aren't enough of them. It just isn't reasonable to have a scrollbar that you slide for aggressiveness and tightness. You don't know what those settings mean when it comes to many common (and sometimes difficult) poker situations. You will find yourself sliding the bars to different settings over and over again, testing many different configurations without knowing what they really mean. Eventually you will just give up because the thing keeps losing no matter what you do, and you don't have any way to set it to play the way you want it to.

At least with the OPI bots you are the one setting the decisions, which are based on common poker situations. They don't have any way to account for position, the number of live opponents, the number of opponents at the table, whether a raise occurred before or after you bet, or what happened on a previous betting round. But you can develop reasonable profiles for low-stakes Limit games and you do know the actions you are setting it to take.

The Jaguar Pokerbot supports Poker Stars, which is really a bad idea. Use a poker bot there and expect to have your account frozen. This goes for the OPI bots and ICM bot as well.

This product is really overpriced for what it is. We are sure you will figure that out from the demo however. It's main appeal will be to treasure hunters, those pathetic people willing to listen to snake-oil salesmen in search of a magic ATM machine that you just turn on. Any serious poker player interested in a bot should make sure that the product they invest their time and/or money in can gather enough information to make good poker decisions, and that the user can use that information to configure the programming himself.