For an organization that by and large had done so much right for so long, Pokerstars has begun to look embarrassingly bad lately. Their game structure changes which have been epic fail have not yet been remedied. Today, an article was posted on PTR exposing a ring of short stacking bots who have been around for YEARS. The analysis provided in the article leaves no room for reasonable doubt. If the Pokerstars game security team wasn't able to notice a trend like this, it means one of two things: they're grossly incompetent, or they liked the extra rake being generated and hoped that the players wouldn't uncover the ring of bots, making Stars look awful in the process.
You can find the PTR article here.
It's worth noting that if Stars simply followed FTP's suit and nixed 20bb poker, botting would become next to a non-issue - as writing a bot that could play anywhere close to break even poker with a 50bb+ stack is degrees of magnitude more difficult than with a 20bb stack.
Poker over the last few days has been painful as usual. I'll leave it at that. I'm thoroughly enjoying Persona 3 Portable. I didn't realize the first time through what a great soundtrack the game had. Looking forward to Starcraft 2 release as well as a new album from Rufio, a band that I enjoyed for years who broke up and then recently reformed - which seems to be a trend lately, as Allister got back together this year too! Looking forward to seeing Rufio live again (will be my fourth time I think) in September with Strung Out.
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edit fail, hopefully you prob read what i wrote anyways though, although it doesn't really matter :/
I agree completely with what you say on both Stars incompetence this year and removing the bot issue by getting rid of the games that botters like. I posted as much in the thread on 2+2. You should do the same. It is really crazy what is going on there lately. Maybe they seriously need to bring back Lee lol.
The Stars bot situation is quite worrying as you say, especially when they always bang on about how they have state of the art detection tools.
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