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:
Most cash bots (nl50-200) are from south america for example.
I saw a 11$ pko with 29 entries 20 were russian, kazak, azer and ukrainian accounts, how legit are these mtts?
Yeh the bowls are infested with bots imo
You can tell from their cbet sizing on certain textures. They change the sizing depending on texture unlike the average generic human who bets 1/4 or 1/3 too often. I mean, either they are good players who happen to enjoy grinding $11 1k gtd or they are bots lol I wonder
Today, in the $630 High Roller, 3 outa 4 final players were from Russia. Prolly them bots taking all the monies!!! BeGambleAl, onnea, Oto100k
solid evidence
thanks for answering your discord <3
BeGambleAI is next level bot name, the ol' "no one would believe anyone names a bot like this"
Have the cash game bot/collusion issues from the past several years here, improved any in the last few months?
New WPN Bots from nl100-200:
xieanatko
Sugurd89
oleOleway
ShalomB0b
Prosek020
SaH0roKer99
N0nAkRoN
LisojabkinS
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Hello guys. I am currently playing NL50 on iPoker network. I haven't played much there but there are some regs who have absurd stats especially BBvsSB and BBvsBTN. They 3bet way more, use very big sizings postflop and showdown ridicilous hands. Those players are not fish who are loosing money, those players, i am pretty sure, are exploiting the pool hard. I cant imagine someone playing NL50 can be good enough to do that, so im pretty sure those "regs" are actually bots.
One more thing i have noticed, whenever the fish is broke or leaves the table, it seems like they aren't programmed to leave the table in the next bigblind, so everyone will leave the table and they will be the last one to leave the table.
Im currently playing on the ChampionPoker Skin, i already contacted Support. I really hope they do something about this.
Hello guys. I am currently playing NL50 on iPoker network. I haven't played much there but there are some regs who have absurd stats especially BBvsSB and BBvsBTN. They 3bet way more, use very big sizings postflop and showdown ridicilous hands. Those players are not fish who are loosing money, those players, i am pretty sure, are exploiting the pool hard. I cant imagine someone playing NL50 can be good enough to do that, so im pretty sure those "regs" are actually bots.
One more thing i have not
what you are describing are regs. regs are to be found on all stakes and from what you describe nothing nefarious is afoot. what are the absurd BvB and BBvsBTN stats? 3b more than the general population? typical reg-behavior.
as you astutely pointed out, a bot would leave the table when it breaks. you are playing vs better players, not bots (well, not in this case, anyway).
