The Poker Lab Rat

Many online poker players are now somewhat sceptical about the integrity of gaming operators due to a raft of recent and highly publicised ”poker cheat” cases. Here is an update from Gaming Intelligence on a new initiative one popular online poker network is doing to help protect its playerbase. We’re pleased about this as the team at PokerLabRat.com are frequent players at Ongame Poker Network sites. 

bwin has taken steps to protect poker sites and players on the Ongame Network with the implementation of BotGuard from ICU Intelligence, a fraud system set up to detect and locate poker bots in online poker rooms.
 
Auxiliary cheating software that plays without human interaction and recommends poker actions, also known as poker bots, are increasingly being used by players attempting to take advantage of others. ICU’s BotGuard is designed specifically to find and detect player patterns that single out poker bots from human players.

Kevin O’Neal, bwin’s Press Officer said: “The increasing complexity and the amount of data that needs to be processed in order to detect poker bots is tremendous. BotGuard has the ability to detect complex patterns with tiny shades of differences in huge databases, which allows it to find the players that are using illegal software. This is what made us choose ICU’s solution as our next step in the fight against poker bots.”

Andreas Holmström, CEO of ICU Intelligence said: “ICU is very pleased and excited to work closely with bwin. bwin is a pioneer in online poker development and we are proud that they are choosing ICU as their partner when it comes to surveillance against cheaters on their poker network.”

BotGuard uses artificial intelligence to analyse and process the data required to search for internet poker bots. Every poker player has a unique playing method, including poker bots, and while a human player’s pattern changes over time, a bot will play in a similar way time and time again with little change. ICU’s BotGuard finds and flags suspicious players, allowing bwin’s fraud specialists to undertake a more thorough investigation before the appropriate countermeasure is executed.

Skeptical about the integrity of your online poker room? The top rating poker rooms on the Ongame Poker Network are:

EuroBet Poker (operated by one of UK’s most prestigious & successful gambling firms) and
Betsson Poker (An excellent European focussed gambling experience - lots of fun). Check out detailed reviews to these popular sites here at PokerLabRat.com.

>>Eurobet Poker Review
>>Betsson Poker Review

(Sorry, no Ongame Poker Network sites can accept USA based players)