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:
The fact that anyone still plays here after countless of us long term regs from umm since Doyles room have stated there is indeed Bots and They Dont Give a F and possibly are in on it. Strike that they are in on that mess
The fact that those sell out shill loser Pros basically long term poker leeches should be shamed on a regular. Really they should be prosecuted
The fact any idiots supports the poker blah blah for legal online action in the US under the guise is was agame ofluck and looks at the state of sports betting should realize poker players are crap and mean nothing as their lobby voice was a mere front for a few to play pretend hero and promote themselves under thatvguise.
There are some that have not forgotten the ills of online poker and the bS
Listen anyone who gives any site action at this point is a fool and should Shut T F up about Bots yea nooo drrr
You win by not playing
Listen to that inner voice
Since I stopped being cheated my life has prospered exponentially to heights of happiness I could never have imagined while I was under aguise of "fair play"
The fact they continued an event with an open bot being stacked off, offering no recourse to anyone, well the ones being able to blind there stack.
The fact the odds MoneyTaker was at the Final
come on maaaan
Mods you still are LOL and yea all the censorship people remember and don't use this site anymore cuz of it
But lesson were not learned
My poop is over bye
See you in the $215 500k today
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.
it doesn´t mean it is a bot, many bots tanking also preflop
so if someone snap every decision it is not a bot
^^
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.
Ya snap timings aren’t necessarily a bot. Most of the bots seem to actually have a slight delay.
I have gleblov running pretty TAG stats over ~2k hands like 20/17 and the bot profile is more like 25/19.
New active WPN bots on NL100-NL200 sh/fr reg tables:
Chroment2
rousinx
beeweller
gooksmith
vodcorny
terate19
Minatomon
Are the bots loosing programmed to do so or is it variance and eventually they will even out?
Pardon my ignorance.
The fact that anyone still plays here after countless of us long term regs from umm since Doyles room have stated there is indeed Bots and They Dont Give a F and possibly are in on it. Strike that they are in on that mess
The fact that those sell out shill loser Pros basically long term poker leeches should be shamed on a regular. Really they should be prosecuted
The fact any idiots supports the poker blah blah for legal online action in the US under the guise is was agame ofluck and looks at the
Is Doyle's Room bot free?
As a US player are there any websites that don't have bots? Or at least where they are cracked down upon?
Thank you
Some time ago, I initiated a small open course on Botfinding, where we engage in practicing writing fingerprints and developing strategies to enhance detection capabilities. One of our recent tasks involved refining previous research and analyzing the latest cash game hands within the WPN Network. Here's what we've uncovered:
I've categorized the bots into two groups:
Inactive Bots: These bots were active last year but have since become inactive. Half of them ceased playing by the summer, while some stopped in January 2024.
Active Bots: This group comprises bots that have played at least one hand since February 2024.
As usual, I've included their hands for your examination. This will enable you to delve into the gameplay of these bots and develop strategies to counter and detect them in the future.
https://mega.nz/file/CllgUZYC#BhE65tuU-M...
Furthermore, I'll be including a screenshot displaying their results, annotated with a note specifying that these are the cumulative outcomes of these usernames from March 5, 2023, to April 11, 2024, which we hadn't previously reported. This comprehensive overview will provide a clearer understanding of their performance over an extended period.
I'd like to extend a special thank you to the WPN security service for their efforts in combatting bots and fostering a cleaner gaming environment within the room.
If you'd like to support our bot detection efforts, please consider sending donations to the following addresses:
BTC: 3NCGQ6kiKVRVf2HCdXPGGsdvwTNZcnXpNX
ETH: 0x32fAa44bf82B8565c67bF551F801BB1feA7eC5F0
USDT (TRC20): TNxEzYgoYMcoyHmLuJYtxSKNsXDwHtThu5
We've conducted a parallel analysis of MTT lists, uncovering both previously overlooked bot nicknames and newly registered ones for this year. It's noteworthy that many of these bots have already been identified and blocked, thanks to reports filed by a coach under the pseudonym "MTT Database Review" to the WPN security service.
Total 2024 Botfarm Result:
As usual, I've included their hands for your examination. This will allow you to delve into their gameplay and develop effective strategies for countering and detecting them in the future.
https://mega.nz/file/H0UX0IRC#BbBTzBXVN4...
What's particularly significant is the notable uptick in profitability depicted in the graph. Upon closer examination of April 2024, we're confronted with an astonishing revelation: these bots achieved a staggering 32% return on investment (ROI). This figure is not only exceptionally high but also serves as a stark reminder of the rapidly evolving landscape within which these bots operate. It underscores the imperative for immediate action against them. It's evident that these bots are advancing at an alarming rate, posing a formidable challenge for detection and mitigation efforts. This stark reality highlights the urgent need for intervention, as human players find themselves increasingly outmatched by the sophisticated algorithms employed by these poker bots
If you'd like to support our bot detection efforts, please consider sending donations to the following addresses - donation as substantial as 10 BTC would significantly bolster our capacity to combat these bots effectively.
BTC: 3NCGQ6kiKVRVf2HCdXPGGsdvwTNZcnXpNX
ETH: 0x32fAa44bf82B8565c67bF551F801BB1feA7eC5F0
USDT (TRC20): TNxEzYgoYMcoyHmLuJYtxSKNsXDwHtThu5
Hi Tyler, thank you for your repeated efforts.
As a token of gratitude, I’m currently training a LLM with your dataset and histories and am going to deploy a gradio web app simply called “am I playing a bot”.
You simply upload your database as a .pt4 ,h2n or Postgres db file and it will analyse your database and then produce the list of names in your database that has stats very close to your dataset. I’m open to discussion about openly labelling the bots on the site itself so we can bring more attention to the matter.
Just finished training on 1m hands of normal hand histories and first principle reasoning in poker.
It’s time we turned it up a notch. 😀
Wow, it's so bad I don't even think I'm safe in low stakes. I had a guy call my jam with 57o, out of pos, and ran down a straight against my kings(pocket). I'm like what human would play like that so deep in a tournament and risk hours of grinding on ugly cards?
that wasnt a bot
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.
I’ve seen 2 Kazakhs playing Triton, they were pros I’m pretty sure
Posting just to fix the deleted-post bug.
Wow, it's so bad I don't even think I'm safe in low stakes. I had a guy call my jam with 57o, out of pos, and ran down a straight against my kings(pocket). I'm like what human would play like that so deep in a tournament and risk hours of grinding on ugly cards?
This has gotta be a joke right lol
As someone looking to get back into online poker after a hiatus, this is putting me off massively. Is this an issue on every site or just WPN?
Yes, the bots are on every site, but WPN is much better now.
I would avoid other US facing sites, especially Ignition.
Active Bots: This group comprises bots that have played at least one hand since February 2024.
Only six of the accounts from TylerRM's 5-12-24 WPN cash game list played during the last week, and each of those six earned only $50 from The Beast.
#230 CONSLA 4199.46 (just under the $125 prize cutoff)
#285 SLURRY 3599.17
#307 CRAPULENCE 3453.03
#360 AERODEXPO 3018.30
#485 FRESHSKIER 2371.22
#565 SHISHUNE 2096.70 (just above the $50 prize cutoff)
It's still the same six playing again this week, and it doesn't appear that they're creating many new accounts on the site.
Looks like the botting problem has been mostly resolved.
Would love another update. Thanks TylerRM.
