Bots on Bovada?
This is my first post and I'm not really sure if I am in the right place. For a while I have questioned the use of bots on Bovada. I thought the anonymity of the players would lend itself to some shady stuff, mainly bots. I did some research and found a site called *********.com, a place where you can buy a bot for $129 for the year or something like that. I started reading forums there and it turns out that many (hundreds if not thousands) of people are using these bots. The program creator is also the admin for the forums on the site. What I found was pretty disturbing. It seems a lot of players are using bots on Bovada. "Egor" the creator/admin of the site claims that bovada has had the ability to detect bots for a long time and years ago they would shut down accounts affiliated with bots but in the last few years Bovada has turned a blind eye to bots because obviously bots generate rake and rake generates money for Bovada. It is kind of sad, for years I would tell my friends who were skeptical of online poker that it is in the best interest for any gambling site to be 100% legit, because once word got out it would destroy the brand. I guess I was naive. It seems most of the users of these bots play micro stakes and MTT, some with more success than others. I no longer feel comfortable playing at Bovada (or any other online site). I emailed Bovada and asked them if they turn a blind eye to bots and of course they said that if they find someone using a bot they CAN shut them down, not the answer I was hoping for. Again this is my first post and sorry its a long rant, was hoping to hear others peoples thoughts on this. Thanks.
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never fold top pair+ 3 way man when they take these dumb lines, just call, and call again, no matter what the runout is, let them hang themselves
you'll occasionally lose but you'll win huge pots with marginal hands much more often