{"id":201171,"date":"2024-10-16T09:45:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=201171"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:09:51","slug":"detecting-poker-bots-our-approach-and-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/detecting-poker-bots-our-approach-and-insights.html","title":{"rendered":"Detecting Poker Bots: Our Approach and Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who we are<\/span><\/h3>\n

At partypoker, we love poker! Our Game Integrity team is no different and consists of poker loving data scientists, coders and ex professionals. During our pro days, two of our team were part of a small group of bot investigators who spent their free time highlighting and reporting suspicious groups of players in the games across all the major networks, successfully too! Our work resulted in accounts being closed across all the networks we sent reports to. We were the people behind the investigations being done back in 2014, that some members of the poker community are currently doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having been on the other side of the fence, we strongly believe that it should not be the players\u2019 job to identify cheaters or police the games. This is why we have used our 10 years of experience in this area to build effective tools and systems to catch players attempting to cheat in our games.<\/span><\/p>\n

Community investigations<\/span><\/h3>\n

During the last year there have been multiple instances of \u201cbot rings\u201d being found to be operating on several other poker sites by the poker community, having been missed or ignored by the sites themselves. Estimates for the last couple of years have these groups of players fraudulently profiting in excess of $10 million, money that will have been lost by legitimate players. At partypoker, every month we post on our safer poker page (<\/span>https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/safer-poker#monthly-reports<\/a>) how much we have redistributed to our players. As you can see, this amount is trending down year on year and we\u2019re very happy to be able to say that as a group, \u201cbot\u201d accounts have lost money.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article we\u2019re going to detail some of the processes we have in place that identify any \u201cbot rings\u201d attempting to operate on partypoker and also provide a basic framework that can be used to highlight \u201cbot rings\u201d via player pool analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n

What we do<\/span><\/h3>\n

At partypoker we\u2019re proud of the systems and tools we\u2019ve built over the years with the aim of keeping our games free of bad actors and here we\u2019re going to outline two that are most pertinent to the topic of \u201cbot rings\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n