Bonus Bots News

To answer a common inquiry, we do take on private support work for poker site owners on occasion. What we do is make our existing product work at your site. It is not an internal back-end kind of thing. So you will need multiple PC’s and/or VMs in order to run the bots. Each bot instance plays one PC/VM up to 6 tables. Our private support jobs include an unlimited number of licenses.

Contract Details

The first thing we need is access to an account with funds in it to simply determine whether or not the support work can even be done. Keep in mind our software is Windows-only and we have not yet done any work using mobile OS emulators. We prefer a downloadable poker client for Windows as opposed to something web/flash based.

If we decide to take the job, the price is $18,000 USD payable in three installments of $6,000. The first installment is to be paid before we do any actual programming work.

We will produce a working product before the second installment is due, and issue a handful of licenses for testing. After we identify the bugs and refinements still needed, the second installment is to be paid. We will dole out more licenses as needed during this phase as multiple new versions are tested.

The third installment is payable after all the bugs are fixed and the product is working satisfactory. Please note that subsequent software updates which affect the bot constitute additional work which is not part of the initial support job contract – but those can usually be completed quickly, and we won’t charge much for maintaining support as long as the needed fixes remain minor.

The typical job is completed in 2-3 months time. If you are still interested in a private support job please contact us.

We are happy to announce full re-support for Ignition, Bovada, and Bodog on their new software platform. Please note there are now different settings requirements than before. You can download Holdem Bot 9.6.8 which includes updated user manuals (with the new option settings screenshots) here:

http://shankydownload.com/hedownload.htm

All table types are now working again here, including MTTs and Zone Poker. We are happy to be back in business on this platform and things are looking good.

The most important new setting is on the Game Play Settings tab under Seating; we now need to use preferred seat views for every table type. Check the bottom middle seat for all types and make sure Do Not Use Preferred Seating is unchecked!

New versions of all our poker bots have been posted which include freshly updated profiles and improved performance features. You can download version 9.5.6 of our Holdem and Omaha Bots at:

http://shankydownload.com/hedownload.htm

http://shankydownload.com/omdownload.htm

We continue to get outstanding customer feedback on the current generation of Shanky Poker Bot software. Recent comments include:

“I entered the bot in a $10 + $1 tournament. I’m currently past the bubble and 2nd in chip rank in the whole event! I have to say that this bot is a keeper!”

“I’ve just recently started to play online poker again and I’ve been reacquainted with your bot program. It’s marvelous to say the least!”

“Your bot started winning for me the day I got it. Very nice product!”

Regarding the new profiles: The most radical changes have been to our Omaha-Hi Bot, especially the cash game profiles. These needed to loosen up for today’s games and adjust better to overly -aggressive villains. We are also including a new Heads Up version in the download. It can be used in full ring games, since the random bluffing codelines only trigger when starting the hand heads up before the flop.

This image shows results from testing the new Head Up profile at a short-handed PL10 6-max table (as these tend to be, with opponents coming and going a lot for brief spells). We quadrupled up after buying in for a half-stack! Not too shabby…