| PokerStars Freezes 10 Player Accounts After Bot Suspicions |
Online poker giants PokerStars have frozen ten accounts as compelling statistical evidence has shown them to be the work of computer programs and not humans.A thread appeared at popular poker forum 2+2 last week showing information that had been flagged by PokerTableRatings.com. PTR had urged PokerStars to immediately freeze ten of their accounts as the statistics for each were far too similar to be deemed coincidental; especially considering the many millions of hands played. This proved conclusive evidence that all ten were poker bots and, following swift internal investigations, these accounts have now been rendered inactive.
The Ten Frozen PokerStars' account
7emenov; bakabar; craizer; mvra; nakseon; kozzin; demidou; koldan; Daergy; feidmanis
Collectively, the ten accounts played over eight million hands at mid-stake ring games, making $57,839 (£38k) in profit and $186,572 (£122,575) in rake alone; not to mention all the perks that come with playing so much poker i.e. increased VIP status, more PokerStars points.
The poker room has yet to comment on the incident.
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