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08 April
2008 New Online
Poker Bot Sales Are Strong Shanky
Technologies, an 18-month old software company that
specialises in online gaming assistance
applications, released a Texas Holdem Poker Bot in
late February which supports several large
Online
Poker Rooms. The Canadian
company sells gaming bots from their website Bonus
Bots. Apparently there is a significant demand for
player-assisted software programs from customers of
Online
Casinos
and poker rooms. Our customers are
a mixed lot," says managing director Brian Jetter
of Carmel, Indiana. "We prefer to sell to smart
gamblers who know what they are doing, as these are
low-maintenance clients. But inevitably another
type always finds us, a less educated class of
gambler who is hoping to find a magic money
printing machine. This type of takes up a lot of
our time and is usually somewhat disappointed in
the end." Jetter goes on to
explain that gaming-assistance software is simply a
tool and still requires skillful application by the
user in order to be effective. "Our pokerbot
plays extremely well, but you do need to find a
profitable game environment to put it in. A lot of
our customers are good players themselves who just
use the program to hold their place in juicy games
while they eat dinner, or play out their customer
reward points in freeroll tournaments." The question of
whether or not a computer program can beat good
poker players has been hotly debated among poker
professionals in recent years. Poker is a game of
incomplete information and psychology, making the
programming more challenging than creating chess
computers. Early feedback on the Bonus Bots support
forum would indicate that progress is being made
however, as some customers have reported winning
large online tournaments with the Shanky bot
completely unassisted. The type of
software that Shanky Technologies sells in somewhat
controversial. Besides the moral and legal
questions surrounding online gambling in general,
their software is not usually welcome at the online
casinos or poker rooms that are supported by it.
That creates an additional element of risk for the
user. From all outward appearances, it seems to be
one that they are willing to take. "The initial
rollout was very strong, and sales remain brisk,"
reports Jetter. At this pace it may not be long
before many online poker games become bot wars.
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