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:
Good list, but half of these are not new and have been operating even since last year.
Interesting that Chaptol has started playing even 100NL reg tables now. I wonder why. I've reported some of these to support 8 days ago. Curious to see if they get banned in the next week or two.
You are also missing Meifong1 and Impermanente.
I was on the fence about valentinkabuda. How did you confirm?
What's interesting is that they keep letting these bots operate yet they have tried to ban legitimate accou
they didn´t, they both are playing on one table
Not sure if Mr Tibbs really doesn't understand how a hand database works or he's one of the bot operators trying to raise doubt.
Anyone can buy millions of hand histories for $10 and filter out hands with certain criteria such that the statistics gathered from the remaining hands shows whatever they want the statistics to show.
The never-ending stream of mostly unsubstantiated claims of bot rings has played some minor part in the decline of online poker traffic over the past 12 years. All of it is just sad. Every time another bot scandal hits and the poker community demands action, the poker site bans a bunch of the wrongly accused players just to ease the tension. It's all just witch-hunt. When you never properly present your evidence of bots, nobody can refute your evidence.
Anyone can buy millions of hand histories for $10 and filter out hands with certain criteria such that the statistics gathered from the remaining hands shows whatever they want the statistics to show.
The never-ending stream of mostly unsubstantiated claims of bot rings has played some minor part in the decline of online poker traffic over the past 12 years. All of it is just sad. Every time another bot scandal hits and the poker community demands action, the poker site bans a bunch of the wrongl
Nice try but I have my own hands I've played against all these accounts and the stats are consistent.
So your theory that Tyler arbitrarily cherry picked these accounts and filtered the hands to make it look like they're bots is pretty far fetched.
And what would even be his motive to do so?
You just seem even more sus trying to say these bots don't exist.
Everyone who has played a fair amount of hands on acr knows about the prescense of bots. In fact most of us have gotten refunds from bots or RTA users. It's not really up for dispute, just a question of scale.
Nice try but I have my own hands I've played against all these accounts and the stats are consistent.
So your theory that Tyler arbitrarily cherry picked these accounts and filtered the hands to make it look like they're bots is pretty far fetched.
And what would even be his motive to do so?
You just seem even more sus trying to say these bots don't exist.
I'm not saying anything about the OP because I have no evidence. I'm saying that anyone could easily manipulate a bunch of text files.
I'm not saying that the accounts the OP claims are bots are not bots (how could I make that claim since I have no knowledge of the matter one way or another). I'm saying (and this is a pure and simple fact) that not a single post on this thread contains credible evidence that they are bots. What I take issue with is the witch-hunt mentality which completely disregards the prerequisite of evidence. A bunch of hand histories is not evidence - they are raw data that may contain evidence of who knows what or nothing at all. After you've shown that the raw data hasn't been tampered with, have analyzed the raw data and created an understandable description of why the data proofs something you claim it proofs, then you're holding actual evidence.
Everyone who has played a fair amount of hands on acr knows about the prescense of bots. In fact most of us have gotten refunds from bots or RTA users. It's not really up for dispute, just a question of scale.
I'm not disputing the presence of bots. I have full confidence that at least the bigger casinos are very good at catching bots because they have access to all the data, like the player's probability distribution over the time a keyboard button press or a mouse click is down. The casinos silently detecting and banning bots doesn't create big scary headlines of bots that have scared away recs for the past 12 years though. It's the poker player community itself that has created bot ring hysteria that has scared away probably a lot of recs.
I'm not disputing the presence of bots. I have full confidence that at least the bigger casinos are very good at catching bots because they have access to all the data, like the player's probability distribution over the time a keyboard button press or a mouse click is down. The casinos silently detecting and banning bots doesn't create big scary headlines of bots that have scared away recs for the past 12 years though. It's the poker player community itself that has created bot ring hysteria th
You have an awful lot of trust in the casino. The same bots were running on 200 blitz for 1-2 years without being banned, playing tons of hands. ACR doesn't have an incentive to ban them because they generate rake for the site and keep the games running, so they are ok letting them go "undetected" until there is community pressure. This pressure is important.
Acr cash games suck . Apps are where it's at
wr0nghouse not a bot right?
0 refunds here too.
I even emailed them naming the specific bots, how many hands I had w/ them and asking why I didn't get any refund while others who have not even played on the site in over a year received them. They never responded.
-Received multiple refunds in 2022
-received 1 refund 1/19/23 but did not play any hands after March of that year
-last refund 5/2/24
Been a 25nl/50nl grinder during these refunds. Received 0 since moving up to 100nl.
Anyone have thoughts on Rebayman000? Fresh khazak account. Played 300 hands with him today, never snap acted and had similar timings to the other known bots. Didn’t see enough showdowns to form a full opinion yet.
2 new ukraine regs in 200blitz recently "hamsterrace" and "whitebrickwall" on botwatch for me, does anyone know?
I saw a 11$ pko with 29 entries 20 were russian, kazak, azer and ukrainian accounts, how legit are these mtts?
Does anybody keep track of who the players are that win or final table these tournaments? I mean there has to be a reason that WPN keeps having these tournament series and they all seem to just cover the guarantees. I say follow the money.
