Bovada poker bot farm vid goes mainstream.

Let’s mark every poker site’s response to the Bovada bot farm vid with an arbitrary emoji scoring system.

Because.

PokerStarsUSA picks up points right out of the gate for hard numbers and some solid technical deets. Score: 3 nerds 🤓🤓🤓

PokerStars believes its customers deserve a safe and reliable place to play online poker against real people. Our game integrity team, made up of 60 specialists—ex-professional poker players, qualified data scientists, and statistical analysts—uses purpose-built software to detect, investigate, and resolve potential occurrences of collusion, multi-accounting, or prohibited software use.

ClubWPT Gold puts on its serious trousers and gets technical and does give some interesting detail on its bot detection. Pretty serious stuff for a training site. Two nerds 🤓🤓, slight fellow kids vibe gets one 👴.

Our models scrutinize gameplay patterns by referencing a combination of our RL gameplay models, game statistics, and player behavior to discern between human and bot actions, allowing us to effectively differentiate the two.

CoinPoker scores one raised fist ✊ for coming in hot with the “ban early” mantra, but is light on details and delegates it off to a screenshot of a 2+2 post—earning it two 👴👴.

Ban early, ban quickly has been our approach with these bot rings. As we’ve said before on the 2+2 forums, we’re proud that many regs and pros have noticed CoinPoker’s games are recognizably more legit and 'human’ compared to some online poker sites.

PartyPoker gets in the detail, doesn’t mince its words, and contains a link to learn more and an email address for reports. So ✅✅✅ there. But it scores one 🍅 because it hasn’t updated its bot numbers in almost a year.

The accounts shown in this video are not playing in PartyPoker’s network. Poker bot “farms” such as this do not exist on PartyPoker. To stay safe, ensure you only play on fully regulated sites, such as PartyPoker.

Here’s a primer on the Bovada bot farm video, fallout and reactions.

Want to get up to speed on the whole Bovada bot farm vid? Here’s a special behind-the-wall link — just for loyal The Rail readers, lets keep it between us 🤫 — on how it all went down.

I wrote this on PRO yesterday and the story covers player reactions, responses from Ignition and Bovada, and a bit of history of bots in general.

Operators are still tripping over themselves to comment on this Bovada bot farm vid.

Now it’s PartyPoker that is out there assuring players that this isn’t an “us” problem.

Poker bot “farms” such as this do not exist on PartyPoker. To stay safe, ensure you only play on fully regulated sites, such as PartyPoker.

Strong words. This may be the first international operator to join the swathe of sites jumping on X to assure their players that they’re on top of this bot issue; technically, Party are in New Jersey, but this is from their global Twitter account.

— Nick (temporarily taking over from Sam on the editor’s desk of The Rail to guide you into the weekend. Feedback and tips @pokerprojones).

Bovada enters the chat.

Just like its counterpart Ignition, Bovada claims the bot farm video dates back to 2022. The brand reaffirms its commitment to “player safety and security.”

However, there is a very good reason regulated sites exist. If you don’t live in a state with legalized online gambling, that sucks, but if you choose to play on a site like this, it is always at your own risk.

Ignition Casino responds to that bot farm video.

The company says the video dates back to 2022, but Martin Zamani claims otherwise — saying it is from 2024.

We feel this saga is far from over. Who do you believe?

PokerStrategy weighs in on the footage showing a bustling bot farm running over 100 accounts on Ignition and Bovada, all colluding in tournaments.

The bot farm, apparently based in China, had its operation exposed by Martin Zamani, who posted video evidence on X, with monitors displaying the bots in action.

Zamani, previously known for outing other poker scandals, claims site security has turned a blind eye despite the high stakes involved. Community reaction was swift, with many players chiming in that botting is a long-standing issue on these platforms.

“They’ve known about for ages and done nothing. It’s highstakes and this isn’t the entire operation either and they just don’t care. Enough is enough of this shit. (I didn’t create the bot or the video)I don’t think this is happening on…”

PokerStars USA outlines why they are a safe place to play.

Tend to agree with this take.

How is there not more context surrounding this bot farm video?

Also, we’ve said it once and we’ll say it again: only play on regulated sites, folks. There’s a reason.

ClubWPT Gold weigh in on Bovada bot farm debate.

WTAF! Check out this massive bot farm on Ignition/ Bovada.