Ongame Network Combat Poker Fraud with ICU’s BotGuard
June 6th, 2008
The Ongame Network has taken steps to protect its poker sites and players with the implementation of ICU Intelligence’s BotGuard, a fraud system set up to detect and locate poker robots on internet poker sites.
Auxiliary cheating software that plays without human interaction and recommends poker actions, also known as poker bots, are increasingly being used by players attempting to take advantage of others. ICU’s BotGuard is designed specifically to find and detect player patterns that single out poker bots from human players.
BotGuard is powered by ICU’s cutting edge technology and uses artificial intelligence to analyse and process the data required to search for internet poker bots. Every poker player has a unique playing method, including poker bots, and while a human player’s pattern changes over time, a bot will play in a similar way over time with little change. ICU’s BotGuard finds and flags suspicious players, allowing Ongame’s fraud specialists to undertake a more thorough investigation before the appropriate countermeasure is executed.
The Ongame Network has over 20 poker sites that will benefit from the BotGuard, including among others MansionPoker.com, HollywoodPoker.com, PokerRoom.com, CasinoEuro.com and Interwetten.com.
A representative of the Ongame Network said: "The increasing complexity and the amount of data that needs to be processed in order to detect poker bots is tremendous. BotGuard has the ability to detect complex patterns with tiny shades of differences in huge databases, which allows it to find the players that are using illegal software. This is what made us choose ICU’s solution as our next step in the fight against poker bots."
ICU Intelligence’s core technology is based on more than 17 years of research at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
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