Nacho Barbero uses GTO Wizard while playing on ACR
He foolishly posts to social media:
He later claims he didn't know using GTO wizard while playing was against the rules.
I agree they should try and do more to stop it. But anyone who thinks RTA isn't rampant in 2025 and isn't going to get way worse is naive at best.
It's only "rampant" on the worst sites with no security that DGAF.
It's like saying Chicago is an extremely dangerous place because an extremely small part of it has 99.9% of violence.
Subject them to 1 hour of gameplay how? Where? Why does a player have to articulate their thought process out loud? You do realize that can be challenging for some people, right? Are they cheating because they might stutter?And you do realize that people are almost certainly going to play differently than they usually do when they are under the microscope of this "interroga
While playing on WPN I was subjected to this 2 times since 2022 and passed the test both times. They have methods to check if your playstyle aligns.
And yes, this is the solution to solve all cheating. If you are a winning player, you will have to adapt to this eventually. Does it suck? Yes. Is it need to stop cheating? Yes!
Subject them to 1 hour of gameplay how? Where? Why does a player have to articulate their thought process out loud? You do realize that can be challenging for some people, right? Are they cheating because they might stutter?And you do realize that people are almost certainly going to play differently than they usually do when they are under the microscope of this "interroga
ive recorded twice for the same site(not acr), once 2016 or so and once this year. 2k hands was requirement once just to see I could do that in one session back in 2016 which was probably just them looking for straight up bots amongst high volumers and the other was to play 2.5h like i usually do, just do whatever i always do. (camera pointed at me and record screens with software, this all synced obv)
If i RTA'd they spot differences in my mouse movements, how quick i act and so forth, I dont think they would look at frequencies, since samplesize is all about that but they would for sure look at if I never made any "pure mistakes" vs regs before, but now suddenly i made whallops of them that would be a clear indicator.
Pure mistakes would be to check on a 100% cbet spot for example, stuff that doesnt really change regardless if you have slightly diff ranges pre than someone else or studied with a bunch of sizings not commonly used. Not picking a subpar sizing, like going for 80% instead of 125% according to their solution.
some sites care, some dont.
would like to point out theres a huge difference to site sweeping checks and individual checks prompted by complaining regs that demand them to look into it, procedures are hella diff
Bit harsh to be sacked for joking about it given it was ACRs first response to it. I bet the other player that got caught won't be making any jokes on the issue.
It's only "rampant" on the worst sites with no security that DGAF.
It's like saying Chicago is an extremely dangerous place because an extremely small part of it has 99.9% of violence.
If you actually believe that I have a bridge to sell you. And it's only going to get worse as the technology gets better and faster.
If you actually believe that I have a bridge to sell you. And it's only going to get worse as the technology gets better and faster.
I play for a living so I would know.
Detecting anybody that is abusing solvers is a matter of a site simply looking at unusual winrates, it's that simple. Again, it goes back to how much the sites care though.
It's only "rampant" on the worst sites with no security that DGAF.
It's like saying Chicago is an extremely dangerous place because an extremely small part of it has 99.9% of violence.
"You're not from Chicago" ---- The Untouchables
Seriously, you have skewed view of life in Chicago and likely , in any major city.
Even in what you may deem "dangerous" places, violence is associated more with people than places.
It sounds like you've scant knowledge re the simile your creating.
I play for a living so I would know.
Detecting anybody that is abusing solvers is a matter of a site simply looking at unusual winrates, it's that simple. Again, it goes back to how much the sites care though.
Many years ago, I had "unusual winrates" pay reviewed on a site. (This was "pre-solvers".) What was detectable was chip-dumping, between pitchers and catchers, as a precursor to chargeback fraud. Similarly, when a fraudster would never have to pay for deposits, play was remarkably loose. (In 2001, one fraudster, the "Thai Guy" charged back deposits at Party Poker in an amount around their revenue for the preceding 3 months of operations. )
What also was detectable were things like slow-playing confederates, obvious collusion, looking at hand histories and hole cards.
Even that was not "simple" however.
As for what you call "abusing solvers", what do you mean by "abusing" ? Do you mean using them, in violation of a site rule against RTA ?
