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[QUOTE="PhilGalfond, post: 4785987, member: 360431"]
Great question, puzzlefish.

Bots are no-doubt the biggest long-term threat to online poker.  Though the kind of team-play bots you're talking about are scary (can achieve a higher edge), they are easier to catch for any site who is taking bot-detection seriously.

You occasionally hear about a bot ring that was caught by the community and not by the poker site, but you don't hear about how many bots sites like Pokerstars catch on their own - my understanding is that they do a very good job and that they catch the overwhelming majority of them.

Smaller sites, especially unregulated ones, I would be more worried about.

We built Run It Once Poker with bots in mind at every stage.  Many, many elements of the way we designed our product were largely influenced by them.

I think that as bot technology progresses, sites will need to stay ahead of them, and will need to get more and more creative.  This is one of the reasons I'm so passionate about building a poker site - because I want a poker site out there that is forward-thinking and that will care deeply about preserving the integrity of the game.
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