Poker Bot Reviews

poker is sometimes compared to a game of chess. The Advanced poker Bot v2.0 treats poker just this way- as a combination of strategies and learning and knowledge bundled into a fully featured, very robust software package.

The Advanced Poker Bot is specifically designed to play Texas Hold’em. Nothing else. It has even won several awards and is certified free from spyware.

At the core of the Advanced Poker Bot is an artificial intelligence engine that is doing many things at once. It is collating data about the actions and movements of the other players, it is constructing game states, and it is comparing them against a built-in library of known poker tactics (some taken from professional players).

While all of this is occurring, the engine is also performing what is known as ‘discovery’. Though there are many meanings around this term, it basically refers to the process that the bot is performing in order ot learn to be a better player.

Results that the bot deems are negative and categorized and used just as the positive plays are. The combination of these databases create a very powerful program that will eventually amass a small library of tricks that it can employ and avoid.

Take this powerful software and now make it completely customizable. Advanced Poker Bot allows for script-style customization of the program to allow it to play the way you are comfortable with.

There are a host of included features. There is Auto-Sit Out which will remove your account from the table should you win or loose too much. There is the capability to play different table limits (no limit, pot limit or fixed limit).

The software is also advertised to be able to play on an infinite number of tables, although this doe require that you start a new instance of the poker bot for each table. The FAQ on the site is quick to point out that this is not suggested for more than 4 tables at once.

The site also advertises on the front page that the poker bot is 100% undetectable. Again, the FAQ is quick to point out that no poker bot is truly guaranteed to be undetectable. Still, the list of anti-detection features is impressive.

To begin with, the reaction times of the program are randomized to throw off anyone attempting to time the mouse clicks. This is pretty standard fare these days and very simple to do. 

The software also takes precautions against poker clients that might be attempting to snoop around within your computer. To foil the programs that attempt to take screen shots of your play screen to see if you have an open bot window, the program will run completely hidden from view.

To appear invisible to programs that record what processes are running are running on your computer, the bot hides itself in the task manager as an innocuous system process. As a final step, the windows themselves can have custom titles placed in them (such as ‘Windows Media Player’ instead of ‘Advanced Poker Bot’). This will prevent screen-shot programs and snoops from telling exactly what is minimized in your task bar.

In addition to all the above features, the poker bot is useable in over 48 poker rooms at the moment.

There are some problems with the software, however.

A few of the largest poker sites are currently not supported. Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars. There is a notice that they are coming soon, but at the moment you cannot use this bot to play on them.

There also appear to be some technical glitches that have yet to be worked out. All software has problems like this, but they are important to point out. One problem causes the bot to fold hands no matter what the odds are. This is apparently due to outdated installations of Microsofts .NET framework.

Another bug seems to cause the bot to sit out or leave the table. This apparently occurs if any part of the poker client window is covered, or if you are generating events by using the mouse or keyboard in another program. Which means at this stage, the poker bot mustbe left to run on an unused machine.

The bugs are not without workarounds, though, and are easily avoidable.

The price of the Advanced Poker Bot is a real bargain for what is included. For 100 computer licenses, $49.99 is the price of the suite. This also includes free updates for life and 24 hour tech support. Not a bad deal for any software really.

Overall, this is a nicely made, feature-rich program at an attractive price. Though support for the missing online poker sites would be a very welcome addition, it is still worth considering. There is a limited free demo available from the website at www.poker-bots.com.

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