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Anarchy Poker is featuring a fascinating riff on Pokerbot strategy development. Here are the two main objectives of their Pokerbot in the making.
The bot must be hard to detect for the poker rooms
We decided that impossible to detect was to much to ask for and it wasn’t really necessary. It would only take time from the more pressing developement.
The bot must be hard to detect for poker players
This is similar to the above but as we knew since before that players can see stuff the operator can’t and operaters see stuff players don’t we wanted to be clear about it.
Critical Security forum has a great thread on breaking PKR and Betfair poker clients. Here is an amusing comment in the thread on magic numbers in cryptographic algorithms.
The easy way is to search for the magic numbers… all common crypotographic algorithms use magic numbers (built in cleverly chosen constants) for seeding or influencing rounds. Searching for these leads you directly to the encryption/decryption routines without having to follow the buffers ; )
A simple magic numbers search will tell you which of the apps files implements crypto, what types of crypto are available to the app, and most importantly… will show you where the routines are. Breakpoint the magic numbers and you’re going to find the routine. For example, lets say you want to find a hash routine like MD5 or SHA when the app uses a static implementation… just search the binaries and find the ones containing the published ’round constants’, set a break on read and you’re going to wake up right in the middle of the crypto.
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After much anticipation and excitement among the tech-saavy internet poker community, ICM-Bot , the most advanced multi-tabling poker bot ever developed, is officially released. Here is a quick snapshot of the awesome features for the product launch of this incredible poker bot.
ICM Bot is created for No Limit hold’em sit and go tournaments. Whether 9-player or 10-player, you’ll be ripping pots and sitting out opponents to your heart’s delight.
ICM-Bot uses a highly advanced combination of these game and probability theories to maximize your odds and leverage your best winning potentials.
Stay low profile and virtually undetectable with your ICM bot using window title renaming capability and other proprietary measures.
Order your ICM bot today and start winning more No-Limit Hold’em Sit-n-Go tournaments!
by: Jazzy Pokerbot reviews today welcomes the ICM-Bot. ICM-Bot is real-time poker bot software that can play on multiple tables at the the same time with up to 4 sit & go tournaments simultaneously. The logic of ICM-bot decisions are AUTOMAGICAL meaning, they completely automated and do not require any human assistance. The user only has to open the online poker tables and then start the program. ICM-Bot does the rest! Whoa, that’s hot.
The software uses a variety of poker probability theorems including the Nash Equilibrium and Bayes Theorem to make its decisions. It also uses a real-time ICM calculator in collaboration with a database of optimized +EV diff. strategy.
The ICM-Bot can be used with Pokerstars and will be supporting Full Tilt Poker and Party Poker very soon. Stay tuned to JazzyBets Pokerbot coverage for more on the poker player technology for winning more pots!
by: Some the biggest winning players in online poker history are gathering together this summer for a match-up with the infamous Polaris 2- the most technologically sophisticated poker Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine in the world. This event is the second edition of the Man vs. Machine Poker Championship and is scheduled to take place during the 2008 Gaming Life Expo at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas July 3-6.
Polaris 2 was created by the University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group (http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca) and is the result of several years of scientific research and thousands of man-hours of development of the Pokerbot logic.
The human players slated to join in the match are professional poker coaches or contributors to the widely recognized online poker training site Stoxpoker.com. Each of the human players participating in the challenge has won millions playing for the highest stakes against some of the best poker players in the world.
Bryce Paradis, head coach at Stoxpoker.com and winner of over 2.5 million dollars at online poker in 2007, added that “Against the current AI in Polaris 2, the average poker player would be completely dominated. The Polaris 2 team has made incredible improvements since the match last year. The most powerful change is that the AI will now learn from and adapt to its opponents’ play as the match progresses. This year’s Man vs. Machine match is going to push our team to their limit.”
In 2007, Polaris 1 competed with professionals Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Ali Eslami in the city of Vancouver, Canada. The series ended in a very close finish, with a final score of two wins, one loss, and one statistical tie for the human team of Phil and Ali. Each round comprised of a 500 duplicate hand match, wherein the same series of cards was dealt to both players, with each one playing opposite hands in the game with the AI taking the other side. At the end of the match the total number of chips won or lost by each team determined the winner. In an effort to reduce the element of random luck to a minimum, the same format will be used again this year.
The key members of the Stoxpoker.com team are professionals Nick Grudzien, IJay Palansky, as well as Stoxpoker contributor Matt Hawrilenko, all of whom can boast well over $1M in lifetime cash-game limit hold’em winnings. Additional professional players are expected to round out the team in the coming weeks.
by: This summer, during July 4-9, 2008, the Co-founder of Stoxpoker, an online poker instruction destination, is set to go head-to-head versus Polaris, a super PokerBot, that comprises of an intricate series of poker-playing computer programs created by the scientific wizards at the University of Alberta. This exciting event will be held at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas during the Gaming Life expo.
The event is set to take on a similar format to that used for last year’s match-up which took place in Vancouver at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. There will be a series of 500-hand “duplicate” matches of fixed-limit hold’em, meaning in each match the two human competitors will simultaneously play 500 hands of LHE against Polaris, with the same series of cards being dealt in both contests; only the hole cards will be reversed. The total number of chips won or lost by each team will then be added together to determine the winner of that match. Following the “duplicate” poker format lessens the luck factor, making the match a more accurate measure of the relative poker-playing skill of the humans and that of Polaris.
“My goal will be to stay aggressive and to avoid tendencies that can be exploited,” says Grudzien. Such a strategy will no doubt be necessary. Prior to last summer’s competition, Jonathan Schaeffer, chair of the Computing Science department at the University of Alberta and head of the CPRG, explained that Polaris is has in fact been designed in such a way that it “learns, adapts, and exploits the weaknesses of any opponent.”
by: As the number of internet poker players continues to rise, the number of people trying to take advantage of game vulnerabilities using technology, has also risen. External cheating software that advises poker actions is becoming increasingly widespread, with some software able to play without human interaction, often termed as a “PokerBot”. These PokerBots can give a player using the software a potentially unfair advantage towards ordinary players that are not using such tools. Enter the BotGuard, by ICU Intelligence.
“..as the technology of the poker bots develops and becomes more sophisticated, new methods are needed to combat the problem. ICU’s BotGuard is designed specifically to find and detect the player patterns that single out poker bots from the human players.”
“The increasing complexity and the amount of data that needs to be processed in order to detect poker bots is tremendous…BotGuard has the ability to detect complex patterns with tiny shades of differences in huge databases, which allows it to find the players that are using illegal software.”
BotGuard is powered by ICU’s unique cutting edge technology, based on Artificial Intelligence. This empowers it with the ability to conduct analysis’ on vast amounts of data required to search for bots among the masses of ordinary players. Each online poker player has a digital fingerprint, and is unique. By the same token, every Pokerbot has individual playing patterns. Naturally, the way an ordinary person plays over time changes. However, a bot, plays in a relatively constant way with few small variations. ICU’s BotGuard pinpoints and flags suspect players, allowing an online poker room’s fraud specialists to undertake a more thorough investigation before the appropriate countermeasure is executed.
Here is a comprehensive and updated list of active Poker Bots, calculators and tools that many online poker rooms permit the use of:
1. Calculatem Pro
2. Coach Rounder
3. Draw Poker Source
4. GameTime+
5. Holdem Genius
6. Holdem Indicator
7. Holdem Manager
8. Holdem Partner
9. Holdem Ranger
10. Omaha Poker Coach
11. Paragon Poker Pal
12. Poker Academy Prospector
13. PokerAce HUD
14. Pokerbility
15. Poker Buddy
16. Poker Butler
17. PokerEval
18. Poker EV
19. Poker Evolver
20. Poker Indicator
21. Poker Juggernaut
22. Poker Office
23. Poker Potjie
24. Poker Pro 2007
25. Poker Sharpener
26. Poker Sidekick
27. Poker Sniffer
28. Poker-Spy
29. PokerStat
30. Poker Stove
31. Poker Tracker
32. Poker Vitals
33. Poker Weapon
34. Poker Wingman
35. PPA Poker Calculator
36. SmartBuddy
37. Star Tracker
38. Stud Inspector v1
39. Stats for Poker
40. Telescope by SpadeIt
41. Texas Calculatem
42. ThePokerDB
43. Tournament Indicator
44. Tournament Shark
45. Table Shark
Here are some prime examples of Poker Bots that are often prohibited in all cases.
1. Advanced Poker Calculator
2. Gambot
3. hhSmithey
4. Holdem Hawk
5. Holdem Pirate
6. Holdem Inspector a.k.a. Online Holdem Inspector
7. iHH Harvester
8. Magic Holdem
9. Mandraker
10. Open Holdem Bot
11. OPI Wizard
12. PokerAnalytics
13. Poker Android
14. Poker Bot+
15. Poker Bloodhound
16. Poker Crusher
17. Poker Edge
18. Poker Inspector a.k.a. Online Poker Inspector
19. Poker Mate
20. Poker Prophecy
21. Poker Sherlock
22. Poker Table Manager
23. Real Poker Rankings
24. SharkScope
25. Sit n’ Go Brain
26. Sixth Sense
27. SmartCollector a.k.a. Mixed Harvesters
28. SpadeEye
29. Stars Hand History (SHH)
30. StarSpy
31. Texas Auto Fold
32. TheCashDB
33. WinHoldem
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