Last weekend, \u201cbotter\u201d, a poker bot operator, appeared on the 2+2 to forum to announce his retirement. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI have decided to retire from botting and focus my energy on something more meaningful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The poster, known as \u201cthemadbotter\u201d, also revealed that he wanted the post to coincide with the withdraw of the last of his funds from America\u2019s Card Room (ACR).<\/p>\n

After doing the announcement, the poster stayed on the forum and answered questions, while ignoring offenses from some participants.<\/p>\n

Details<\/h3>\n

The reason why Themadbotter decided to renunciate of poker botting was according to him because to play well was a \u201ctime-consuming\u00a0endeavor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He revealed that it was not only a matter of \u201cplug and play<\/em>\u201d, it needed constant perfecting and re-tweaking. He also said that he had made $30.000 in a period of six months.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it took me about a week to write a profile that played well enough to beat 10 NL and about a month of reworking that profile to beat 50NL at a solid clip.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the course of the next few months, I steadily improved the bot\u2019s performance based on manual review of hand histories and results. Making it play exceptionally well is still extremely time-consuming and it requires a lot of trial runs and hand history reviews.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Identity Almost Revealed<\/h3>\n

One of the forum participants, identified as \u201cNovaCaine\u201d wrote: \u201cOP\u2019s not as smart as he thinks. Only a couple of regs went mia [missing in action] recently and I got a good hunch who he is. Gonna try to contact a couple other players to conform my numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

After his post \u201cthemadbotter\u201d got spooked and wrote: \u201cI\u2019m sorry to disappoint you all, I was just bored and wanted to troll. This is why I could not post any proof. I hope that admin can delete this thread so as to not cause undue panic in the players or to unnecessarily slander WPN\u2019s reputation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThemadbotter\u201d left the forum and left us a snapshot of the life of a poker botter.<\/p>\n

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