Il mistero di rs03rs03

Una delle maggiori problematiche relative al Poker Online è la presenza di Bot, programmi che giocano nelle room comandati da precisi algoritmi matematici; recentemente alcuni players di Pokerstars.com avevano sollevato dei dubbi relativamente al nick “rs03rs03“: un grinder che gioca 80-100 tavoli contemporaneamente ai mirco-limiti su Pokerstars.

Le sue statistiche sono impressionanti per i volumi di gioco effettuati e molti altri giocatori di Pokerstars.com si erano interessati a questo caso sospettando che dietro l’account ci fosse un team di programmatori all’opera nei test di un nuovo programma Bot.

Il player Boku87 aveva sottoposto la faccenda al supporto di Pokerstars.com chiedendo di effettuare tutte le verifiche del caso e il team di esperti della room ha messo in moto tutte le procedure standard per scoprire se ci fosse un software dietro questo nick senza però riscontrare alcuna anomalia: nessun Bot, nessun account sharing, solo un altro grinder dalle capacità incredibili.

Effettivamente una semplice ricerca fatta tramite Sharkscope potrà mostrarvi come giorno dopo giorno questo player stia continuando a macinare sit da 1$ arrivando ormai a oltre 600,000 sit con un attivo di quasi 2,000$ e un ROI praticamente nullo: un certo tipo di comportamento è davvero molto curioso, sicuramente un certo rientro economico gli può venire anche dalla rakeback e dai punti accumulati.

Le procedure e i softwares utilizzati da Pokerstars per questo genere di analisi non lasciano spazio a dubbi: questo player è un grinder instancabile e capace di gestire una quantità di tavoli superiore a tutti gli altri players in circolazione (si ipotizza che multitabli in alcune sessioni anche 150 tavoli alla volta!!!) o siamo alle prese con programmatori di livello superiore capaci di ingannare anche i sistemi di controllo della maggiore room internazionale.

Queste le sue statistiche prese dal database di Sharkscope:

Questa la risposta inviata da Pokerstars in merito all’analisi svolta:

We do not tolerate automated players (bots) on PokerStars. We have an extensive arsenal of detection tools in order to ensure that each player is a human being. We have been monitoring and examining this player using those tools for quite some time, and the player has always shown very human characteristics, and an ability to pass various tests, including CAPTCHA and many others.
Despite this, we, too, have been concerned with the seemingly astonishing volume of play exhibited by this player, especially in recent weeks as his volume has increased dramatically.

As such, we recently froze his account and asked the player for a controlled demonstration, and the player agreed. We dispatched a PokerStars representative to the player’s home to observe several hours of play on June 1st, 2010. That observation convinced us that the player is not using a bot. We cannot violate the player’s privacy — the player has asked to remain anonymous, and not to discuss their strategy. However, among our observations:

1) The player uses a set of self-written hotkeys similar to many commercially available suites (TableNinja.com comes to mind).

– The hotkeys manage automatically joining tables without regard to opponent selection
– The hotkeys close unnecessary popups like “It is free to check”, automatically
– The hotkeys require the player to enter every bet, raise, check, or fold manually

2) Both in prior play, and during our in-person observation, we witnessed many “mistakes”, such as pre-flop folds of AA and KK.

3) The player was able to verbally chat with our representative during play, while continuing to play.

4) We took video of the play at various times, and conducted tests at various times during the observation (such as unexpectedly asking the player to remove their hands from their keyboard, to observe whether play
stopped… and it did).

We observed well over 3 hours of play, and then compared the play we
observed to historical records of past play. We cannot divulge exactly what
we compared, though we can say that it did include comparing his hand
selection, action timing, and many other aspects. The resulting comparison
very strongly indicates that the prior play is statistically identical to
the observed play.

In short, our bot detection tools have borne themselves out here very
nicely. The tools always indicated that the player appeared human despite
ever-increasing hours of play and concurrent tables. Now, through our
observations, we’ve independently confirmed those findings.

PokerStars remains vigilant in proactively hunting for bots. We will
continue to review players of concern with our tools, and continue to
enhance those tools to ensure that PokerStars remains as free of bots as
possible. When we find bots, we remove them from our games. We are pleased
to report, however, that ‘rs03rs03’ is human.