Hm. Drunk late night rambling.

[Repro]

Uh, before you attack me...you don't understand.

I spent the last 3 years writing poker/casino software that I'm trying to launch as a site. I'm a poker player myself, and I don't like playing against bots, and I don't think they should be allowed at money tables with real players, but I also think the guys who write bots should have somewhere to go to test them out with each other, and real players should be able to play against them if they want to, knowing that they're bots because they're marked that way.

So my bots are house bots that will play against player bots and any players who feel like going onto the bot tables at the site to play against them. Does that make more sense?

[edit] and just to be clear, the software always marks bots as bots, so you know who you're playing against. This is because bots are inevitable and they're not bad for a casino, but they are bad for players. What that means is we need them to follow certain rules: Always be marked as bots, and always stay on the bot tables.[/e]

Hey Jstrike, I understand what you are trying to do here but i think it's not gonna work. Although the idea of a "bot only" table is quite unique, IMO people like to have some influence on the game themselves.

I'm a very decent pokerplayer and i loooooooove money but it seems better if you try and launch your project first before starting with things like this.

Frank

[BingoT]

I guess this is the change of the times in the World today.
All I can say is you can keep them poker bots.
"The New Generation Of The World"

[jstrike]

So the ONLY safeguard a real player has is that you are promising to 'mark' them as bots. You are asking players to 100% trust that you won't employ them ' unmarked' to improve your bottom line. Not very encouraging.

Also, you offer the winners 10% of winnings generated by their 'bot' in a poker room that, by your own admission, probably won't ever get started.

I enjoy reading your progress posts, but i still think you are barking up the wrong tree. Sell it and let someone else take all the risks.

Nifty, any poker room could run bots, or allow quietly allow players to run them, and not tell anyone about it. I think if a casino was totally open about it and had a strict policy that it only takes place on bot-tables, that would improve confidence. Also, these bots don't chat or try to act human. And also when I wrote the code for them, I also wrote some really crazy statistical analysis for detecting all kinds of bots.

Anyway the bots probably won't improve the bottom line, and you're right that 10% of anything that doesn't exist ain't much. I was more tossing the idea out because I thought players might think it was fun or interesting to have a bot custom-modeled on their personality. Kind of a vanity thing.

Never mind, I guess. No one really seems into it.

Hey Jstrike, I understand what you are trying to do here but i think it's not gonna work. Although the idea of a "bot only" table is quite unique, IMO people like to have some influence on the game themselves.

I'm a very decent pokerplayer and i loooooooove money but it seems better if you try and launch your project first before starting with things like this.

Frank

Thanks Frank. I'm gettin the feeling you're probably right. I need to watch out what kindsa ideas I throw around when I've had a few too many... feeling a little green right now, more ways than one actually...