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Message: [QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 2215785, member: 40397"] Most of the major, reputable sites & networks, and certainly Pokerstars (unfortunately not available to US players), take a very active and aggressive approach to identifying and eliminating bots. I would also ask though, what makes you think they're bots? Bots tend to fall into a couple of categories: fairly brain-dead ones that are easily recognizable and exploitable as TAGs/nits, and sophisticated ones that are neither recognizable nor easy to beat. So you shouldn't much mind playing against the former if your game is where it should be, while the latter you wouldn't likely be recognizing as bots in the first place. Bots will probably always exist to some degree, because the botters are clever and are constantly coding around efforts to block/catch them. However they're far less common than beginning online players think they are. More often than not they're just multitable grinders. [/QUOTE]