"Surely once the percentage of bots gets high enough (say if someone releases a good free poker bot for download) the bots will just balance each other out?"
Here's how to do it: release a bot for download with a backdoor in it so that when it is up against the author's bot it messes up a small percentage of hands so the author's bot comes out ahead. Folks will be happily winning with their bot running, and the author gets rich.
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"Surely once the percentage of bots gets high enough (say if someone releases a good free poker bot for download) the bots will just balance each other out?"
Here's how to do it: release a bot for download with a backdoor in it so that when it is up against the author's bot it messes up a small percentage of hands so the author's bot comes out ahead. Folks will be happily winning with their bot running, and the author gets rich.