Bots Playing with Real Money on PokerStars

I doubt I will ever see this again. A really high end real money table where two 'people' are actually playing. $1000/$2000 fixed limit Omaha High Lo. The first two screen shots are like the introductory part of a bad movie. The real meat is in the third.

Even if you had seven hundred thousands of dollars, would you really put it all at the table? Is this supposed to intimidate your opponent into being scared? Well I guess that failed because after several all ins where Fake survived he/she/it instantly added more chips. And the $19,500 added is way to small for a table with these stakes. $1,000 minimum to see the flop. Add another $1,000 because at this point you know your opponent is really aggressive. Another $2,000 for the turn. Another $4,000 for the river. Another $4,000 for the showdown. If you haven't wised up to your overly aggressive, baboon ass presenting and great card catching opponent by now your two thirds of the buy in deserves to be lost.

Now back to the the third shot. Why is this game even offered? There are ten seats there. No way that table is ever going to be filled. Lots of pots over $10,000 and naturally the rake is always just two dollars. How is PokerStars supposed to pay their bills?

And here we have it again. when someone goes all in the hole cards are turned up and the railbirds get to see the showdown. But PokerStars recently has made it inconsistent and most of the time the hole cards on an all in are not shown to observers. A convenient excuse for a player to muck cards on a three plus player game so you don't see the crap they went in on, but in a heads up game it's pointless since when they pot is paid out they are shown anyway.

Naturally observer chat is locked down. If I had $700k and was about to play for major cash I'd call up my friends and want them to be there to encourage me.

And conveniently it's a 'fast' table which explains why the betting is instantaneous instead of any pauses to think about the quality of the hand.

Naturally not a single simple 'nh' is posted by either player.

I don't like to use the term bots because it implies that someone has written a program that has made it through the registration process. These are clearly two positions of a database that an ordinary human would never bother looking at logging in hands dealt.