Should I use a Pre flop bot? - Pokerstars

WinHold'em and/or Open Hold'em are the two you'll see mentioned most frequently. There are others. And you could write your own. But to a degree you're fighting an uphill battle to get even a simple foldbot up and running on a site like Stars or Tilt.

The SNG is a tough format for the "auto-fold the garbage" style of foldbot play, because the rising blinds create a lot of dynamic strategy, where it's correct to raise or even re-raise with a hand you might have routinely folded in another position, or when the blinds were smaller.

And the "wait until I get close to the money" strategy really starts to break down as you move up in limits, and even in the microlimits, you're giving up a lot with this style of play. It can be profitable in the micros, or in bigger SNGs if you game select, but it's never going to be optimal.

Maybe most importantly: Having a foldbot doesn't free you as much as you'd think. You're still forced to wait. And although you're not chained to the computer every second of every hand, it's not like you can go watch reruns of Big Bang Theory either. You're still chained, and you're still bored. You just have a longer leash.

I think foldbots are relatively innocent, don't get me wrong. Just not as helpful as you'd think, when you actually get one up and running. That is to say the novelty wears off.

tight play in the early stages of a SNG is the only way to go, so long as you are getting aggressive at the right times later on when the blinds get big. If you are going to make some kind of pre flop bot I would try it on any other site apart from Stars...Pokerstars Jeff is world renown for his bot hunting skills.

A tool prohibited when it's take action instead of you. Pokerstars has very serious tools about detecting any form of helper bots so I don't think it's worth the risk. :-(

^^^+1 Also, multitable to reduce the boredom of tight preflop play... If you ARE intent on doing this though, check out pokerai.org, it has plenty stealthing info, but (if I remember) you need to contribute plenty to get access... Also remember 25c tourneys are going to be different to even $2 ones. tight-passive wont work, try tight-aggressive instead?? Good Luck! (And you have been warned ;-) )

A foldbot is much etter suited to the super-turbo tournaments on full tilt poker. It's either all-in or fold pretty much the whole game. I know there have been some bots that were caught playing on super turbos on full tilt but I don't remember any specifics. I imagine they would be actively looking for them as well.

I actually followed coding the wheel and built a bot (short game type). I only bothered getting the bot up and running on poker stars and only played free money but poker stars never detected it(screen scraping type bot).
The statistical edge in poker is small even for the best players (check out kyle silers paper posted elsewhere on this site). So to make money the bot has to play lots of tables at large limits. The fold bot will only stretch your rope since you would be playing multiple tables. If you are playing at large limits i'd play yourself unless the bot is better than you :) I can tell you from the experience of myself (break even, + program) and my friends(make living playing poker) that a slightly advanced short game bot can break better than even. A simple bot depends on fish for its profits so it would be advisable to take over for the bot maybe midway through any tournant or at ring games with few fish. Building a bot turned out to have a lot of surprising programming challenges. however I work in .net, if you program in C++ issues like global hooking and interacting with the windows api are much easier to handle. If you do work in C++ I'd be happy to consult as it would help me build a data mining bot.