Do you love to play cards against AI ? We neither ! However, some people solely focus on exploiting these machine opponents and we called them poker bot hunters, for the lack of a better word.
Actually there is another name of these real players, who exploit poker bots, but it is uncensored, so we are sticking with the term poker bot hunters.
Since poker bots are huge online poker problem, some people took the matter in their own hands and used this adversity to their advantage. Artificial intelligence has mathematical prowess that humans cannot match, but our ability to observe and adapt has always triumphed against any enemy.
Below we will dive deeper on who are these poker bot hunters, how and where you can attempt to become one and if you are already – how to expand your operation.
Who Are Those Poker Bot Hunters ?
Poker Bot Hunters, are just regular poker players like you, with the small difference that they took time to observe and analyze how AI opponents play.
Usually those bot destroyers are coming from schools or have strong poker background with many hours of grind behind their backs. Even though this experience is not always necessary, it helps them to analyze the AI behavior.
In a nutshell, poker bot hunters observe the AI opponents, spot repetitive tendencies in their play or badly programmed reactions in certain spots and exploit that to the maximum extend. Since bots cannot adapt, they keep having these same leaks, unless the people who run them pause their activity for few days and fix these exploits.
Key Things to Know about Online Poker Bots
For those who are less familiar with online poker bots – these AI programs, or tools like solvers operated by real people – are not all the same. This means almost every online poker bot has different settings.
But make no mistake, this is not to say that every separate bot account has a completely different style and configuration. People who run the so-called bot farms, program the AI to play in identical way.
It is also the easiest way to spot poker bots – observing a bulk of accounts playing with the same statistics. Usually poker bots coming from the same people running them, have identical VPIP%, PFR% and even time to take action.
The latter is key thing, which even some professional poker players are not aware of. Example : If 3 of the accounts on your table always take around 4 seconds to act, in any spot, we have bad news for you – your opponents are bots.
Why Would Poker Bot Hunters want to play against AI ?
Not only poker bot hunters want to play against non-human opponents, often they solely focus on these type of games.
When you have all the tools to beat them, it is like beating a computer game on hard settings and replaying it on low difficulty.
If you are a shark player, winning is highly likely, but if you are a bot crusher playing against AI, winning is inevitable.
You dear reader, by reading this article, probably fall into one of the 3 categories :
- You are a poker bot hunter ?
- You look to become poker bot hunter ?
- You look to stay as far as possible from online poker bots ?
Now we will address all of these target groups:
If You are already a Poker Bot Hunter…
… you probably always look for new places to play. What people probably fail to understand is that often there are house poker bots. Which means the owner of the particular poker site/room run the bots themselves.
This means that when poker bot hunters win a lot, the house/the poker site loses money. So, when there are house poker bots, the hunters cannot win a ton before they are banned. There are certain ways to avoid this, but overall your best best is by having multiple options at any given time.
Playing against third party poker bots is easier, because they will either get banned or the site will not care that about them and you, as poker bot hunter can keep exploiting them.
Many large online poker sites have bots inside and the trickiest part is to keep track of all the different bot farms inside , so you have to be able to spot different type of poker bots.
In smaller poker rooms, where usually there are less different types of bots to deal with, poker bot hunters thrive.
Since we will not provide the poker room names directly, if you are a poker bot hunter, you can contact us on Telegram – to maybe give you access to some rooms, where you can work and punish the people, trying to ruin online poker with AI.
If you look to Become Poker Bot Hunter…
… then know that its hard to combine it with playing against real players. Of course, its possible, but exploiting bots is not that simple.
Out of 2000 + active players we have, playing on legit platforms and rooms, only 3 or 4 of them are poker bot hunters, who have asked us if we have access to rooms with non-human opponents.
When this happened 4 years ago, this question took us by surprise and thought this was some kind of trick. But then we saw the results of those players and it all made sense.
Becoming poker bot hunter is not something we can teach, we are in contact with very few guys who do it successfully, but i doubt they will just sit down and teach a stranger to do it.
What we can do for you, is give you access to rooms with poker bots and you can observe and take notes of how they play.
- Try to figure all their patterns, they are not living beings, so it is much easier to spot how they act in each situation.
- Then check which accounts play identical. For example if there are 2 major bot farms in the room, write down which nicknames to which one they belong ( by style of play ). If you observe the site/club/app long enough, even if they change accounts you will spot the same playing styles all over again.
- After that is a matter of keeping the notes on which accounts are bots and starting to develop counter measures against them. Example : Recently a poker bot hunter who used our services noticed that in certain room from Korea, bots automatically fold against min 4-bets.
The other thing with which we can help you is by having your back if there are problems with payments , when playing in these rooms. But let’s make it very clear – we advertise and recommend to all regular players only legit poker clubs/rooms where we guarantee 100% of your bankroll. This means that even if the club/app closes doors, bankrupts or even scams – we restore all your funds.
However, in these cheating poker rooms, where they run poker bots on purpose – these people have no integrity, which is not surprising since they look to bring AI to the games. There we cannot be responsible for your full bankroll, only for your deposit. What we can do in those is lessen the risk of you getting scammed, since we are a reputable name in the poker industry.
When trying to exploit house poker bots, it is expected by default to face some difficulties against poker room owners, who run non-human opponents. So be advised !
If you want to find rooms without Online Poker Bots…
…we admire you and know it can be more difficult than 10 years ago, but still easily achievable !
We specialize in giving access to online poker games, from more than 10 years, 5 of which can be tracked online. Every single day we try to improve at what we do and our team has observed thousands upon thousands of online poker platforms throughout these years.
We have been saying this on our site, when it launched 5 years ago, that the best options to play online poker is on club-based poker apps. Even the mobile applications themselves have not changed, they are still PokerBros, PPPoker and X-Poker .
Those 3 platforms have the strongest security teams, which work independently from the clubs and ban all the cheaters. They have nothing to do with the real money games in the clubs, their security only bans the accounts who collude, use AI or cheat in any other way. The player base is also smaller, so it is much easier to observe few thousand players, than hundreds of thousands like on regular sites, where it is impossible to catch the online poker bots.
Even though there are clubs that scam on these platforms, we never work with the ones who tolerate cheaters and it becomes pretty evident quickly. As for the bankroll safety, as always we provide 100% protection.
The other platform which we like a lot is ClubGG, but on it there is no official security team. Many of the clubs there hire independent security service, but not all of them. There are also many clubs which scam, so be careful. On our GG page there is a list with clubs and unions which are scammers, so even if you do not play there using our services, at least take a look at the list, to avoid the bad places on the platform.
There are also perfectly legit GG clubs which can be found in our portfolio and many options for high-stakes players especially. It is great platform developed by GGPoker team and many of the private clubs owners battle actively against poker bots and other type of dishonest players.
Final Words
To conclude the subject – we are strongly against the use of online poker bots and we believe that it is one of the biggest problem of online poker in 2025.
Luckily there are smaller niche poker rooms where bots cannot penetrate because there are vigilant security teams and caring club owners, who have love for the game and do not look at the whole thing like pure business.
When there is passion and love about the game, hate and dishonesty can’t penetrate. But there are many places when there is no passion and only schemes, cheating and foul play. This include large poker operators, which are advertised by celebrities and we watch commercials on TV.
Those large operators cannot be influenced yet , but know that a group of poker bot hunters have been working actively to profit and punish the non-human opponents in smaller private rooms, from at least 4 years ( from our experience). So be advised poker bot farms, maybe you are the next victim 🙂
