I can't let you do that, Dave.

[JohnnyCache]

*Edit Note! This article was made when we had a "Poker Tech" category. It got merged with the general "Online Texas Holdem" category in Dec '09. Just mentioning in case it doesn't make sense!

Hello! This new main topic is for the discussion of the technical aspects of online poker, including but not limited to:

Programming, Networking, Randomness Simulation, Artificial decision making for poker, Poker simulation, graphic design, marketing, copyrighting, publishing, etc., etc.

It's also you spot to discuss and review available software.

A few addendums/extensions/clarifications to the standing forum rules I'm going to be a stickler about:

1. NO PIRACY. Do NOT swap existing commercial software on this board, period. Not even a little. Not even "PM me for info on a used copy of ____." It sucks, but as a programming board, this area is even more subject to no piracy rules, because as hard-core digital citizens with gambling problems, we are probably extra likely to be watched. The coding jargon on this board will draw searches for piracy - I've seen it happen to pirate boards before, and I will not give the jackbooters any ammo to use on us.

2. NO discussions of how to cheat online, unless they are in the context of securing our projects. I can't abide a card cheat, and I have a lot of frequent flier miles and a monkey wrench. Got it?

3. Reverse engineering or de-compilation should be kept brief, pointed, partial, and abstract if it must be posted. In other words, don't post "This is the machine code decompilation of turbo-texas holdem! n3@t0=el33to!!!!1"

4. NO exterior spam here. I was a promising young genius once, until the crass commercialization of the internet drove me to sin and vice. In other words, I take spam very personally. And I can build a rail gun out of things in my yard.*

4b. If you finish a program and stamp a price tag on it, plug it in your sig or answer questions about it only - we have to adhere to our own honor code RE: advertising for it to bind outsiders. Sensible exceptions granted for working on future versions, of course.

5. Fight for the users at all times. That's a Tron joke, not a real rule.

It may be that not all of the rules we have to live by reflect our personal veiws 100%, but they are the law of the land, and I will keep order here. No matter what your feelings are about software issues, we keep the law here, so we can keep this forum here. Period. I don't like to be the law-dog, but if you make me, I will drop a banhammer of heartofor unseen weight, length, and girth on violations here in an manner so violent and humiliating as to border on pornographic, especially where piracy is concered. I DO not want to see a resource I use and enjoy and a community of people I consider my friends damaged because users can't be bothered to confine illegal acts to email.

*Don't scoff. I have some weird stuff in my yard."

[Adamm]

Nice first official post, JohnnyC. Thanks for moderating this one, and I hope that your promises of railguns and monkey wrenches come to fruitation.
I'll also give the usual: If anyone sees a topic that I missed in another section that should be in "Poker Tech", lemme know and I'll move it in here.

[Tralfaz]

Hmmm, cool topic.

Since nobody else seems to be posting I'll give it a whirl.

Johhny, your techno talk fascinates me. I was wondering if you could apply your genuis to a problem that I have. . . .

could you build me a machine that will disintegrate that guy! . . . . you know the one! The guy that puts all his chips out there on a two outer. . . and hits, but only when he is in a hand with me. He then promptly turns around and loses those chips the next hand on a similarly boneheaded move.

I was thinking that something involving lasers or some type of "Death Ray" might work. Even a sharpened egg beater might do the trick. Whadda ya think???

[JohnnyCache]

Got one. Keep in a friend's garage.

[holdem-chick]

What is the current state of alerts in the online poker industry? Are most serious players typically comfortable playing at higher limits? or do they fear collusion / potential rng hackers?

Are there specific rooms that have recently seen a decline in high table limit play due to fear of "purity"?

this is my first board post on this forum! yay!

[Phil14312]

I can speak from a limit hold'em perspective.

The biggest fear in the HU world is bots, which are definitely out there and tough to find. About a year ago FTP made a big bust and shutdown something like 40 accounts for using bots. As far as collusion in high limit games, I don't think (errr, hope?) a lot of that goes on. First of all the player pool is quite small. I literally play the same players day in and day out with very little turnover. Second of all the sites can monitor for this activity. It's pretty hard to pull off collusion online for a long time because the patterns start to become quite apparent and with the sites' ability to monitor holecards it becomes easy to tell when weird patterns emerge with very improbable hands.