Detecting Poker Bots

December 7, 2010

The folks at the PokerStars online poker service actively police their games to make sure that bots are not being used to gain advantage.

Here’s a recent post from their Game Security staff demonstrating that they paid a visit to one player in order to witness the playing and playstyle in person.

It ends with the following wonderful quote:

We are pleased to report, however, that ‘rs03rs03’ is human.

(I also thought JWZ’s take on it was amusing. But you would need to have read Neuromancer to get it.)