Detecting Bots: Uncovering Insights from GGPoker Data Analysis

Detecting Bots: Uncovering Insights from GGPoker Data Analysis

This report exists solely thanks to datamaning and mass data analysys (MDA)

I have examined cash games on GGPoker over th

04 April 2024 at 02:30 AM
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why ban him for a name change that gg facilitates?


by Slugant

why ban him for a name change that gg facilitates?

It's a bot, lol.


bots from former ACR started playing also RNC (they are 100% also in MTTs)


kalthor and rektiss nowadays grinding nl100 nl50 and nl25.. rip nl200?

when will ggpoker react?


Are games still profitable for genuine players if there's bots like this, intuitively it seems they would just flood the player pool with bots until the EV is so low, even if you are a good player.

Very discouraging for someone who's been trying to grind up to these sort of stakes.


by Aurum

Yes I imagine they are everywhere, especially in anonymous sites

Edit - sorry for double post

Not on Pokerstars right? Also is this being done in PLO or is it just NLHE? I know there were players on Pokerstars in PLO a long time ago using banned software but they weren't bots.


libagora_face_detection_extension.dll

Does anyone know what this is doing in the GGPoker files directory stored locally?


It'll be a library for the snapchat cam thing they have at tables


by Insidurrr

It'll be a library for the snapchat cam thing they have at tables

face detection??


Face detection wont solve bot the problem.

Credit card/bank scammers are dealing with this for a long time and they have a lot of success against all the methods of face detection.

We need to remember that we live in a era where deep faking is fairly easy.


New waves of bots keep reappearing. It's absolutely mind-boggling that I can detect these bots with such an ease with limited information yet GG let them ride for months while they destroy the pool.

100% RTA/BOTS:
MisaAmane
7AvalaKH7

Very likely, but not 100% yet:
GoroBaro0
7DeuceW

Please report.


Do we think some of the bots could be players using RTA? It seems insane how accessible this stuff is.


thats quite scary


GG can detect screen sharing surely


by charlesChickens

GG can detect screen sharing surely

no they can´t


by 10najkrajsi

no they can´t

anyone can, it's a matter of whether they want to


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kill all humans..

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too soon? ):


Does anyone detect more bot and have their hand? I want to know about their logic and beat them at tables.
10$ for 100k Bot hands(or we can talk about it), please contact [email protected] if you have it or you want to sell it.


they can't detect screen shares but they can quite easily spot gto hero via dns cache inspection.

they could also detect screen share in fairness depending if it injects into ggpoker or not... but they can also just completely block apps from being able to see the window at all, the question is... how do they allow screen sharing for legitimate players who stream online? At the end of the day one could do the image processing off the livestream lol.

At the end of the day you can't stop this, you just make it slightly harder, they can always do the RTA completely off-device with a phone camera or a hdmi splitter. Online poker is NEVER gonna be safe, you can only spot bad actors by statistics alone, the numbers never lie.


Look at the daily RnC leaderboards! GG is full of bots grinding them all day long and GG does nothing about it.


by coach999

Look at the daily RnC leaderboards! GG is full of bots grinding them all day long and GG does nothing about it.

so lead by example and play somewhere else where integrity does exists


If one records the screen with stone aged camera and used GTO hero on another computer, GG can't detect it.

The fight versus bots is doomed for as long as the only threat for botter is to get an account suspended. Even if GG finds a perfect bot detection system that could detect bots with 100% accuracy after 100K hands, the botters would start to create new accounts for every 95K hands and so on. The only way to fight them is to make a threat big enough, and that's money. As there will be no legal consequences ever, the only viable threat is to lose the money. Running a bot business is not a cheap one, and if there would be a viable threat of not getting withdrawals out, if would soon make botting non-profitable.

Quite easy solution is that GG (or any other site) changes withdrawal policy so that after X amoun a month (like 10K) withdrawals the processing period is a bit longer (2-4 days), and all those withdrawals are prone to either manual or algorithm check. If there is any suspicious stuff going on, it goes to manual detection group (and preferably these guys should know what they are doing). If they find evidence of botting, collusion etc. the money is frozen.

This way there would be significant threat to bot account that the money could be frozen.

In my opinion, with all the information site has and could have from a player, this shouldn't even be really hard to implement. IF the sites would really want to get rid of bots.


by Slugant

so lead by example and play somewhere else where integrity does exists

Like where? Fast games runs only at stars and they basically killed them outside of micros with the new and improved rb system. Well acr but that is basically unregulated gg. Party had them but they are so over raked after the latest changes playing them makes no sense.

by Kyyberi

Quite easy solution is that GG (or any other site) changes withdrawal policy so that after X amoun a month (like 10K) withdrawals the processing period is a bit longer (2-4 days), and all those withdrawals are prone to either manual or algorithm check.

Punishing 97% of the pool does not sound like a smart move tbh.


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.


by Slugant

so lead by example and play somewhere else where integrity does exists

I do but that scam site needs to be exposed!

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