Botfarm won $10 Million on WPN
Monitoring the development and profitability of poker bots has become an increasingly challenging task.
Below are my findings related to the bots identified on the Winning Poker Network (WPN).
Botfarm Total Multi-Table Tournament (MTT) Graph:
Botfarm 2023 Year MTT Results:
Botfarm Cash Games NL400+ Since April 1, 2023:
The issue of bot proliferation has been recognized for at least 3.5 years, as discussed in this Botfarm forum thread.
Despite submitting comprehensive reports to the WPN, which unfortunately went unanswered from their security team, I harbor no illusions that they will address the problem. The security service has let down the player community. Therefore, I am reaching out to poker schools, funds, and independent players.
I urge you to examine the hands played by these bots in cash games and MTTs this year, analyze their strategies in training sessions, and actively combat them at the tables. In many games, they constitute a significant portion of the player field, ranging from 5% to 15%.
https://mega.nz/file/tuJwgYYI#2WVRTQ2BB9... - MTT Hands
https://mega.nz/file/0rQzzSZY#WGXy0n1-w4... - Cash Hands
Here are the aliases for Hand2Note 3 that I have compiled. However, I encourage you to verify and draw your own conclusions.
https://mega.nz/file/FuowxARL#7MLoYSwjqx... - Aliases
Currently, Botfarm evolve approximately every 3 months but still employ exploitative tactics, allowing to push back. Given their ability to create over 100+ new accounts per month, eradicating them requires multiple waves of blocking, not just a single sweep. This issue is not exclusive to WPN; evidence suggests that Ignition and GG Poker are already affected. While I lack data from all platforms, it is certain that they will infiltrate wherever there is a lucrative game.
In the end I would like to say that poker is a game of people with each other, not the machines. Interference by machines disrupts the essence of poker. If any room management believes that regular players can be replaced by machines - you are mistaken. In such a scenario, the game would inevitably dwindle or even cease to exist, reaching an untenable scale.
List of MTT Nicknames Part 1:
List of MTT Nicknames Part 2:
List of Cash NL400+ Nicknames:
Hey,
I have been playing a bit on ACR with some of the accounts mentioned (Jrod and STR1SCH spring to mind) and I do not think that these are bot accounts, I would be interested in talking to some of the ACR regs if they want to hit me up in DMs or discord or something would like to understand why it is people think these are bots so I can better understand the situation
GLGL at the tables!
Hey,
I have been playing a bit on ACR with some of the accounts mentioned (Jrod and STR1SCH spring to mind) and I do not think that these are bot accounts, I would be interested in talking to some of the ACR regs if they want to hit me up in DMs or discord or something would like to understand why it is people think these are bots so I can better understand the situation
GLGL at the tables!
It's based off statistical analysis. If you dig around a little in the Internet Poker forum and in this thread you can find the data.
Hey,
I have been playing a bit on ACR with some of the accounts mentioned (Jrod and STR1SCH spring to mind) and I do not think that these are bot accounts, I would be interested in talking to some of the ACR regs if they want to hit me up in DMs or discord or something would like to understand why it is people think these are bots so I can better understand the situation
GLGL at the tables!
Jrod for sure is. STR1SCH I'm not so sure anymore.
So far bans in the Venom day 2 and forced to sit out:
Withia - 23 starting stacks
Verucasalt5 - 10 starting stacks
MReGoR - banned a bit later with 32 starting stacks.
Probably not all of them, pending investigation, there are some new accounts with no MTT history. I am sure ACR is on it now though, a lot of public pressure, so I dont think any bot account will be withdrawing any Venom prizes.
Also noticed lot of lower stakes bots started sitting out later tonight, smells like a ban wave. 
Well done! Let's hope for the best.
TY for your service MTT_DB_REVIEW, unfortunately this is just a never ending cycle esp with a site like WPN
Another one day 3
day 100 of me not playing on acr , even though i had a good return there in the stud 8 streets.
Btw Anyone from kazhakstan is a bot (any Kazakhstani regs out there can correct me)
Bots hail from many countries tho.
week before venom d2 ACR did random check on me, requesting extensive videos and stuff to prove that I'm not playing with any sort of assistence, so it's likely they just did it with bunch of sus accounts and would assume those that got banned didn't provide satisfying videos or didn't provide videos at all.
but yeah I was happy to see them asking me to do so as it felt like they take that bot/rta problem seriously. specifically asking to do 109/215$ bowls ( i have huge roi in those and don't play much )
Btw Anyone from kazhakstan is a bot (any Kazakhstani regs out there can correct me)
Bots hail from many countries tho.
there are bunch of kazhakstanian regs playing mid/high stakes mtts at least so saying ''anyone'' seems too harsh for sure and uncalled for imo
No top poker player from Kazakhstan that I can remember, but even if there were no solid mid and highstakes players from there before, there are plenty of russian war expats living in that country, and Russia had and still has plenty of good 100% human poker players, so the other guy just threw nonsense here for no other reason than being a stupid racist.
Lol good lord, another day on the internet
EvEryThInG iS OuTrAgE
week before venom d2 ACR did random check on me, requesting extensive videos and stuff to prove that I'm not playing with any sort of assistence, so it's likely they just did it with bunch of sus accounts and would assume those that got banned didn't provide satisfying videos or didn't provide videos at all.
but yeah I was happy to see them asking me to do so as it felt like they take that bot/rta problem seriously. specifically asking to do 109/215$ bowls ( i have huge roi in those and don't pla
Just cash then
200blitz half the bots are kazhakstani
ACR instituting higher checks for that country would take care of 25-50% of bot profiles
Unfair, I know
No worries, from my part we're all good 😀
As a matter of fact, making winning mid and highstakes bots and successfully deploying them is a huge accomplishment, so you thinking that our whole country have the brain and skill to do that should make us happy and proud, not be a trigger to tilt haha Tks man
I grinded 25/50/100nl from like January-March and just got $164.32 refunded. Wish they still published the list of the accounts they banned.
Exam szn unfortunately
I played about 20-30K hands of mid stakes (1/2-5/10) NL/PLO here the back in Jan/Feb/March I 100% played against some of the bots outted in this thread, I ran the account up and then swiftly zero'd it in games to alot of these players, have I got any chance of recovering any funds?
I just got $280.3 refund. Played mostly nl100 and some nl50 and nl200.
I got an e-mail and then i check acc balance.
Grinding small stakes PLO and received a $30 refund. Seems on the low side since about 90% of my opponents are Russia/Bela/Kazak
Kinda makes sense that ACR gives these huge crypto deposit bonuses that take forever to clear.
glebkovtunov in the blitz 200 games is an obvious bot. They act instantly. I have a fiber 2.5gb connection, so it's definitely not because of a delay on my end. He's the only player who instantly bets when checked to or snap gives up river.
Guys does anybody know if the cash hands on smarthand are tracked correctly? I know some hands are missed, but there is a huge difference between Expected Value and Real winnings in the tracked hands. Like almost every player with some decent volume is underEV.
New and some old active WPN bots on nl50 sh/fr reg tables:
Slurry
Consla
Crapulence
Obentog
SheykeR
DarKKlark
Shad0whunter
kittyrra
freshskier
Joyting9
Marmarosis
Kaputt2
cokoceba
