

With the Independent Chip Model ICM he can convert the chip equities into dollar equities and determine – based on an assumption on the calling and pushing ranges of the opponents, the optimal strategy (push all-in or fold). Especially the middle and late phases of these six-and ten-man tournaments are strongly influenced by the mathematical skills of the players. Once you have less than 10 to 15 big blinds, players (or bots!) have to make only one decision: should they fold before the flop or push all-in? This push-or-fold mechanism can be programmed relatively easy. The poker bot must take into account only the chip stacks of the players at the table, the size of the blinds, the position and the two hole cards. On the other hand, with computing power and programming skills permanently improving, it is almost for sure a fact that similar to chess, computer bots will be even able to beat very strong opponents in No Limit Texas Hold’em in the future.Ĭurrently, it must be assumed that poker bots are in use. But these poker bots are rather playing on the lowest limits, because there the level of play of the opponents is bad and the human opponents are therefore easier to be beaten. Also tournament poker players (and in particular Sit and Go Double or Nothing) cannot rule out for sure that all opponents at their tournament table are human. This means that both the computer player and the pro’s had the same hands when playing against each other.Įven if poker is, in contrast to a game like chess, a game with limited information, the ROI and profits are still strongly determined by the mathematical skills of the players. Heads-Up Fixed Limit Hold’em is definitely one of the variants that can best be “solved” in a mathematical way.

Poker bots are computer programs that play poker online. One of the most popular bots is the program Polaris from the University of Alberta in Canada. This bot was able to win the majority of heads-up fixed limit Texas Hold’em cash games against poker professionals. To exclude random effects, the poker pro’s and the computer bot played “duplicate match” games of 500 hands. However, multi-accounting is theoretically always possible – at least until the player in question has been caught. In addition to this, other players might detect this form of cheating as well, and report the cheater to the poker room. Furthermore, many rooms have a security feature, preventing the same IP address to register for the same tournament more than once. The poker rooms have – even in their own interests (first deposit bonus) – taken comprehensive measures to prevent multi-accounting. To cash out, for example, players have to upload a copy of their ID first. Multi-accounting is a clear case of fraud, and a player who gets caught will be suspended and his bankroll will be retained. Such a player has an unfair advantage because in cash games he can see four and not only two hole cards. In addition to this, in tournaments like SNGs he practically has “two lives” in a single tournament. However, this is only a problem for the poker room, and not directly for the other players.īut the big problem arises when multi-accounting players are using two or more accounts to play poker at the same cash game table or at the same tournament. By forbidding multi-accounting, they prevent bonus fraud. The main reason for this ban are their poker first deposit bonus offerings. Multi-accounting means that a player has several real money accounts at a single poker room. Online Poker rooms forbid players to open more than one real money account per person at their poker site. Access to hole cards (superuser account).Read on to learn more about the five most common ways of cheating in online poker. While online poker is considered as being very safe and secure, some cheating also happens in the online gambling industry.
