Bots on iPoker & Bet365 / Unfair AI advantage

Hello.

I am maybe the highest volume iPoker player. I have played 248k hands there this year.

My problem has been that I cannot win on lower limits and my winrate is very low. I am surviving on rakeback, HU matches and getting few very good seats every month.
Competition consists of rakeback regs, bumhunters, few good regs and BOTS. I believe it is the latter which has killed my winrate.
On euro sites you always end up finding weaker regs than on Stars. I was winning player on Stars 200nl. I'm just saying something doesn't add up.

The bots

I have played a lot on site called bet365. It offers premium tables which are hidden from other iPoker clients.

I started to notice in January how there were these new hyper-aggressive regs showing up. Lot of flop and turn min-raising and such lines.
I am skilled HU player and I play almost anyone for practise. All of these new regs had same HU stats. 3-bet >25% and OR >95%. Average 6-max reg has 3-bet of 14% and OR maybe 80%.
The thing is, they would all play me non-stop. Typically regs avoid HU / table starting.

At some point it clicked to me that these were bots and not "100z regs".
I did comprehensive analysis on these bots and how they play.
I then proceeded to do the same for suspicious iPoker regs.
Using the data from bet365 bots I was able to put 2+2 together and find out exactly who the bots are.

I had a chat with Internet. We shared our findings and he helped me keep my feet on the ground and not blindly accuse someone of being a bot.

Real time assistance

I believe that there are bots or humans which use some type of real-time helper.
Game trees are pre-configured and solver tells you what line to use.
Poker is a very mechanical game and it's hard for humans to remain balanced in any given spot. Someone might do well with checking flops, but still leak in other areas.
With real-time assistance, you can be unexploitable in any given spot.
Now is this a solver or an algorithm for x % of range, I don't know.

Detecting bots

I wish to keep a lot of my findings private. This is to a) preserve my own edge b) not give bot developers any clues.
I have spent 20-30 hours analyzing this issue so you can completely trust my word that these players are bots.
I also wish to say that I have one of the most detailed HUD's that I self-built.

How do I know that these players are bots?
1) Stats.
2) Weird hands
3) "Some other gameplay stuff"

I have not found any human who could put out a perfect gameplan. Bots are close to that mentioned and it's SIMPLY UNFAIR.
What happens with humans is simply: You want to go for higher volume -> your stats start to leak. You have tough decision on one table and skip bluff/give up on another table. Exploitative game plan also leads to hero having leaks due to player adaptation. So no, high flop XF % is not necessarily bad 😉

How do you feel as a recreational player to find out that you have been playing vs 2 bots at 7am?

A list of suspected bots:

Bot list bet365:

ZHUKBEST
svvag
LUCKKYLOKKI
Slendermein
IAMGROOT7
Rayman58
KILLBILLA87
DEVSERTSPB47
celeryman47
LethoOfGulet
SUXOV88
RadiantSolaris

Bot list iPoker:

oldtimer72
Caligula897
b0charjik
100Cunning
pinoyfdr
Falcon03
NITROX990
Damage699
Rakemaker83
Pumpkinshtein

Humans using real time assistance / possible bot.

- g0sl0wly
- CashGuard2538
- fr000zenflame

(It's really hard for me to make these allegations and I'm only 99% sure this is the case. The gameplan of these guys deviates too much from that of your standard regular. These are 400+ players.)

Why publish the list and let bots cash out?
I want to make recreationals aware that these games are unfair.
I want to let regs know that they are playing against artificial intelligence (AI).
I don't think human can beat AI. oldtimer72 is one of the biggest winners long-term but he is 100% a bot.
I am one of the very few who is able to detect bots.
Without peer pressure, I believe nothing will happen.
We need more regs on iPoker so bots don't get a seat.
Next time you see these guys, you know they're bots.

Don't get attached to any of those players mentioned. It doesn't matter how long you played together or if you made a big river bluff or call vs them. They're bots and it's simply UNFAIR.
Also I only published recent bots that have played this year.

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