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Before you
go and get yourself a pokerbot, you should consider what
it is you are trying to accomplish. Do you just want a
cool toy, or do you really want a money-making machine
that grinds out profits for you all day (or all night)
long? If it's the latter, you should understand how
those profits will be earned and set yourself up
correctly in advance.
For some
people this means having a dedicated PC for the
job. Nowadays you can pick up great computers extremely
cheap from eBay or refurb shops and hook them up to a
KVM
switchbox so that you can run multiple computer
boxes from one monitor, keyboard, and mouse. This is a
great way to run your pokerbot! To see some killer deals
for extra PC's selling on eBay right now
click here.
There are
various strategies that poker bot users employ to make
profits. Here are the more popular:
Bonus
Hunting
While most
poker rooms offer decent signup bonuses, certain ones offer
generous ongoing bonuses. Two good examples would be the
Cryptologic Network and the
Ongame Network, especially Hollywood Poker.
As a matter of fact the Ongame network is
full of OPI bots at the micro and low-limit tables,
some of which are grinding out decent monthly profits
from the incredible monthly bonus structure. If you want
to join in on the action, you can either try to beat the
other OPI profiles with your own and run a bot like
Poker Android, or better yet just get the
Shanky Technologies Bot which destroys those OPI
bots (it actually takes previous round betting action
into it's decisions). Ultimate Bet is also known for
always having a deposit bonus going, but if you don't
have an account there yet be advised that the rakeback
deal is even better.
Rakeback
This is
another way that poker botters grind out steady monthly
profits. The better rakeback deals pay upwards of 30%,
and some rooms actually allow the rakeback in
addition to a signup bonus being cleared (like
Absolute Poker and the Cryptologic Network). Using the Shanky bot
at Full Tilt, one can take advantage of a juicy 27%
rakeback deal that will earn profits significantly
higher than the deposit bonus, once it is cleared. At
Ultimate Bet you can get a very lucrative 30% rakeback
which is way better than their deposit bonuses. If
you plan on doing some poker botting, the very first
thing you should do is secure a rakeback deal. The best
place on the internet to do this is:

Table Hopping
This is the best botting
strategy of all, and it can be done with any
reasonable-playing bot. The only problem is, it's not a
pure botting strategy. You need to check in frequently
and move the bot to the best table. So what you are
doing is collecting Poker Tracker style data and using
it to find the most profitable tables to play at. We
have tried this extensively using the Shanky bot at Full
Tilt and have had excellent results. It is a perfect
strategy for using a dedicated PC via a KVM switch in
the daytime.
There are quite a few
online poker table-stat software programs that you can
use, but in our opinion the best one by far is Poker
Usher, below.

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