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  1. SillyEagle SillyEagle is offline

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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 11:47am)

    From NewScientistTech site:

    " Gambling DNA' helps fight online fraud
    <ul id="artdetails">[*] 05 March 2008[*] From New Scientist Print Edition.[/list]
    Poker players try to read the faces of their opponents - now software is about to do something similar in a bid to stem fraud against poker websites.

    Like online banks, web-based casinos suffer phishing attacks: players' identities are stolen through emails purporting to be from the casino but actually from fraudsters trying to obtain account details. If successful, they then empty the account by losing the victim's money gambling against themselves or accomplices. Other crooks use software agents, or bots, which play automatically, often beating all but the best players.

    To ensure a human, and the correct human at that, is playing, Roman Yampolskiy of the University at Buffalo in New York and his colleague Venu Govindaraju have written software that monitors how you play. It catalogues how often and how much a player tends to bet, increases the bet, bets everything, or folds - giving up altogether. This information is bundled up into a personalised measure - the player's "gambling DNA" - that can then be used to confirm their identity. Any deviation from that behaviour is flagged up as suspicious. After just an hour of play, Yampolskiy says, the software can authenticate players with 80 per cent accuracy - and that gets better the longer they play.

    While such a scheme could protect rank-and-file players, Jonathan Schaeffer of the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group in Edmonton, Canada, doubts it would work with the best ones. "If you are predictable, you can be exploited," he says. "Strong players try not to be predictable.""
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  2. MikeBing1 MikeBing1 is offline

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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 11:50am) in reply to SillyEagle

    i dont like it at all, i mean if you are adapting to the table dynamics or what not i don't want to be called a fruad just because i'm playing a different style.
  3. brysch22 brysch22 is offline

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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 11:56am) in reply to MikeBing1

    Sounds really stupid and inaccurate
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  4. Hitman Hitman is offline

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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 12:00pm) in reply to brysch22

    Sounds insanely stupid and inaccurate

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  5. lordxixor101 lordxixor101 is offline

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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 12:09pm) in reply to Hitman

    I disagree here. Now, if you only take 1,000 hands, then sure. But, how often are you really going out of what you are doing? If you, as a player, adapt to table dynamics, you likely do it pretty often. So, being really agressive against passive players, etc.

    Plus, I'm doubing this would be used as conclusive proof (I would hope not). It would likely tag accounts that are playing radically different (like, I'm a lowstakes player, if I sit at a huge buy in cash game and play recklessly, that would raise a flag). Then, these accounts can be investigated more.

    Really, I doubt that 95% of players would ever even notice something like this is running.

    Plus, I disagree that this couldn't track some top players. Top players are unpredictable, and that would be their style. If they became predictable, that would be a sign that something could be up.
  6. TheJacob TheJacob is offline

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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 12:28pm) in reply to MikeBing1

    lol...
    Peoples tendencies at the table are probably more variable than just about any other part of their personality.
    Even software that does this perfectly will be basically useless.
  7. Juice322 Juice322 is offline

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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 12:34pm) in reply to TheJacob

    How long will it be before someone smart enough hacks their way into this huge database of tendencies and uses it for their advantage?
  8. SillyEagle SillyEagle is offline

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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 2:05pm) in reply to Juice322

    that's the 1st thing I thought of too.. hackers paradise! LOL
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  9. lpaper lpaper is offline

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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 3:48pm) in reply to SillyEagle

    ^^^^

    im sorry, but does anyone out there think that this thing is a good idea?

    if this technology gets implemented it will surely raise more problems than it solves
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    Mar 6th, 2008 (3/6/2008 4:15pm) in reply to SillyEagle

    Fail.
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