Bots and Online Gambling
Recently players at online gambling casinos have devised programs that function much in the manner of a gaming robot, these ‘gaming bots’ press the button to play the slots rather than have the player sitting in front of their computers and actively pushing the spin button themselves until they get a win.
Online casinos have counteracted this advancement in making game play easier by banning these gaming bots citing that they are an unfair advantage to the player. While it’s true that some gamblers do make more mistakes and thus lose more when they have to play for themselves this seems to me to be a banning that is staunchly in favor of the casinos! After all if a player has honed his or her skill to play as reliably as a robot the casinos could not ban that player, these game bots save players both time and money while cheating the casinos of very little if any money they might win if a player happened to make a mistake. Two thumbs down on this rule online casinos, two thumbs down.
