How a Russian Bot Army Is Taking Over Online Poker

Computers have outplayed humans in chess and Go for decades. But poker was long considered unhackable—until bots from Russia and elsewhere got in the game.

Read more about the Russian bot army that conquered online poker on Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-poker-bots-artific…

00:00 - Bots infiltrate online poker
01:22 - The ‘Moneymaker Effect’
02:03 - How Bots work
03:47 - Why policing bots is so hard
04:32 - AI and Poker
05:32 - BotFarm Corporation
07:38 - Bot Farm model
08:11 - Poker’s dirty secret

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