We here at DU don’t condone or support breaking the law with a program such as this, especially since the casinos who pushed through legislation making on-line gambling illegal to prevent competition wouldn’t approve and will probably come and break our legs if we did.

How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 1 – Coding the Wheel

Several years ago, a client asked me to come up with a prototype for a real-money online poker bot. That’s right: a piece of software you park on your computer while it goes out to a site like PokerStars or Full Tilt and plays no-limit Holdem for you, at 4 or 14 different tables, for real-money stakes.

If you’re a poker player, and particularly if you’re an online poker player, you’ve probably heard rumors about the rise of the poker bots. Unfortunately there’s very little hard information out there (for obvious reasons) about how to build one of these bots. In fact, many so-called authorities still dismiss poker bots as a relic of the overactive poker player’s imagination.

Well, I’m here to tell you that online poker bots are 100% real, and I know this because I’ve built one. And if I can build one, well. Anybody can build one. What’s more, over the course of this multi-part article, I’ll show you how.




  1. The Pirate says:

    I see your Cayman Islands and raise you a Federal Law.

    I see your Federal Law and raise you a I don’t Care.

    I see your I don’t care and raise you a Trip to Gitmo.

    Fold.

    And Fascism picks up the pot.

  2. Mark Derail says:

    I’ll never do this for one reason. WAN IP address.

    Using an IP Anonymiser would result in a too slow of an Internet connection.

    Next step – bots playing against bots.

  3. Read says:

    Well, he may have built a bot; but, did he win anything with it?

  4. peter_m says:

    1- My cousin knows someone who did it about 1-2 years ago. So it is not fantasy. I think he was playing black-jack…

    2- If were to do it, I would piggy back on my neighbors wifi… or rent an empty apartment with CASH and then get naked DSL through a pre-paid arrangement with a DSL re-seller. You can run the whole thing remotely through VNC or Remote Desktop.

    3- Does it pay? I don’t know!

  5. peter_m says:

    4- Is this how machines will reach self-awareness in the real world?

  6. The Pirate says:

    #5
    If they’re greedy and lucky.

  7. Bob says:

    but how much did you lose?


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