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We now have functioning poker bots for Parions Sport poker, the popular French iPoker site. We are happy to report that versions 12.0.5 or later of our poker bots fully support the latest Parions Sport Poker client:

• NLH (Holdem) Bot
• PLO4 (Omaha) Bot
• PLO5 (Omaha) Bot
• PLO4 Hi-Lo (Omaha) Bot

Make sure to follow the latest setup instructions in our Easy Start Guide pdf that comes in our download, which include:

* No sidebar in the poker table window. There should only be a poker table; if there is any kind of sidebar please find the button to click to make it vanish or minimize to the side. This includes “mini games” and casino game ads.

* Card style must now be Abstract (if Abstract is not available, use Classic)

* Action buttons theme Default and Table chips style Classic

* Stack size must be displayed in currency, meaning real money, not by the number of big blinds!

* Green table felt, as plain (not fancy) as possible

* If “Auto Center my seat” is an option (on the Table tab or elsewhere) enable this

* Player avatars are disabled

* Animations are all turned off

* If Player HUD is an option, make sure it is disabled!

* Display DPI on your PC is set to 100% (not 125% as some PCs come set from the factory). Right-click on an empty space on your desktop and find your Display settings (on Windows 7 it goes through ‘Personalize’)

* Windows language set to English/US, the bot cannot read French and stack size should be displayed with decimals not commas, for example a stack of exactly 10 Euros should show as 10.00 not 10,00

* English speaking version of the poker client

* Configured the betting buttons in the poker client properly, as shown in our PDF screenshots, for Pot and Max

* For 8-player tables (including tournaments using 8-Max tables) please manually adjust the Option setting on the bot as follows: Options > Max Players Allowed at Table > 8

* Not using a dual monitor, right? Or an external monitor hooked to a laptop? Or a TV screen as a monitor? (A dual monitor, if even hooked to the tower, may need to be disconnected completely.) Please note “convertible” laptop-tablets do not work, either. Unfortunately, “all in one” PCs seem to be problematic as well. We recommend a spare laptop or a traditional PC tower hooked to a standard-size monitor.

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Our 15-year old forum was destroyed in a forced server migration (which was not our idea, nor were we even warned). We have decided to conduct our community support via a Discord server, in much the same manner that we did in the forum. Contact us for an invite if you would like to join.

Our complete library of profiles has been uploaded to a Sync page, which you can find a link to on a pinned post on the #all-profiles channel on the Discord server. It’s a free Sync account which only allows 20 downloads per day, which should work fine for our community on most days.

There is also a pinned post on that channel with direct links to the latest ModernMike profiles, our bundled holdem profiles (with 12 each for cash and tourneys), and our bundled profiles for PLO4-Hi and PLO5 (which now have 5 profiles each). These links are on our hosting server so should always be available.

Speaking of Modern Mike, here are a couple of recent user comments:

“Regarding Modern Mike Cash: More than 6 cash sessions of NL5 and not even one loss, but the most important thing is a very high EVBB/100. It seems that every move to date is EV+. It is the first cash profile so aggressive, and at the same time so smart in not losing too much bluffing . I have to confirm that for the moment at these NL5 tables, ModernMike is beating everyone.”

“I like Modern Mike MTT! It got me very deep in a large field event and accumulated a big stack in the middle stages.”

If you are launching a poker platform, you will need house bots to stimulate traffic and provide action for your fledgling player base — especially in the early going. You also want the bots to be decent enough players to not lose back all your early revenue! Enter the Shanky solution. We can set you up to launch our poker bots seamlessly from your back-end, as many as you want on as many tables as you want, with a variety of player style profiles. Our products include:

• NLH
• PLO4
• PLO5
• PLO4 Hi-Lo

Please note this solution is for those who own their own site or app and can modify the code. If you are only leasing the software from someone like Enterra or Evenbet, you will need an external solution and a hardware network to run the bots on (which we are also willing to discuss with you).

If you are using a Windows server, we have a .dll > < .json solution which we have posted the details of in this article.

If you are using an Ubuntu (or Linux) system we have engineered a solution for you using a shared library. Our developer will work with yours to implement it. At the time of this writing we have already installed this on 2 separate Ubuntu systems, and it is proving to be a lightweight solution and not overly-taxing on resources. The average response time for the bot players can be tailored to suit your needs. Also, custom profile work is available if you have specific instructions for how certain bot players should play.

Our full package, which includes all our bots and all our existing player profiles, starts at $9500 for a 1-year license (renewable annually for $1500), but might be negotiable depending on your situation and our current project commitments. Full implementation should not take longer than 1-2 weeks. Contact us for more information.

Someone once said, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” When it comes to technology and gaming, perhaps we can best apply this proverb by understanding that trends in technology development will never change the fundamental fact that human beings love playing gambling games, always have, and likely always will. This is true whether it is accomplished inside a brick and mortar building, a touch-screen while in a hot tub, or in a virtual world accessed by a VR-headset. With that in mind, here are our thoughts on the current state of online poker and the role of our favorite user-aide software, the poker bot.

First off, there are new voracious burgeoning markets for online poker in geographical locales where the bulk of the populations have, for the most part, been denied this pleasure in times past. I’m talking about places like South America, Turkey, Pakistan, and, believe it or not, Iran. This surprising development is being accomplished via the latest trend of poker club apps, in which the app provider is not involved in the poker club business and instead only maintaining the platform, on which anyone can start a club to run. The decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies is largely responsible for the boom of real money online poker games becoming possible in many of these emerging markets.

And there are a heck of a lot of these apps out there now! You wouldn’t believe how many emails we get from people telling us “such and such” is the next big poker club app that we need to add support for. The only such app we currently universally support is PPpoker, which has become an important platform for us. We have done several private support jobs for Enterra/Evenbet clubs and, although each one is different and requires individual support work, we pretty much have these down (so if you are starting your own Enterra / Evenbet club and seek poker bot support please contact us for a quote). But as far as listening to pleas for adding support for “the hot new app,” we kind of learned our lesson on that with UPoker. Supporting a new app is a lot of work for us. By the time we got UPoker supported, it was no longer the hot new thing. It had, in fact, been abandoned for the latest shiny new app. Consequently, we are currently in wait mode on this to see if a dominant player (such as ClubGG) is going to actually capture a large market share.

Meanwhile, if you really want us to support a club app that you are playing on, here is an idea you can pursue: Find a dozen friends who also want support, and collaborate with them so you can guarantee to collectively purchase 25+ licenses from us once support is complete — and we just might be able to work something out, given such an incentive.

We are still open for business for new private support jobs, but are only interested in working with serious businessmen who want the best poker bot solution for their site or club. We just don’t have time to waste negotiating with penny-pinching peons who back out of the deal. Trust us, going with a cheaper open-source based solution is not the best long-run financial decision for your new business. Be smart when it comes to this, and invest in a quality house bot solution. It is a decision you will be very happy you made a short ways down the road. We can give you a complete suite of NLH, PLO4, PLO4 Hi-Lo, and PLO5 bots with multiple playing profiles for each to kick-start the traffic on your tables and provide lasting liquidity. In fact, we can tweak as many different profiles as you like to have a wide variety of playing styles automated on your tables.

Our retail customers can rest assured that we will continue to maintain support for our core group of sites and platforms, just as we have for 15 years now. (Wow, even we are somewhat amazed.) Our current tried-and-true support list is one which has demonstrated that it deserves to remain our core list, so you can go ahead and get settled in somewhere on it to enjoy poker botting there for the foreseeable future.

By the way, the testimonials we include in our regular email updates are always genuine and always unsolicited. We are an honest Christian-principled business (believe it or not) so ethical business practices are of paramount importance to us. That means we don’t lie, scam, or use any kind of deceptive or dishonest tactics, come of it what may. If that kind of thing is something you value, then Shanky should be your poker bot software provider.

And with that, we wish you a very prosperous new year. May your draws complete and your flopped hands hold up under every circumstance for both you and your bot in 2023. Happy botting.