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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6901579, member: 397965"] The average low stakes grinder might play 5.000-10.000 hands every day. This gets boring pretty quickly, so using a computer program AKA "bot" to make decisions and carry out actions for you would be a huge help. It would also allow you to put in even more volume, maybe playing on several different sites simultaneously to avoid suspicion and thereby increase your profit, as long as the bot is beating the games. So for sure there is a big incentive to use bots in low stakes games, if you can avoid detection. RTA however is the exact opposite, since it increase your workload rather than reduce it. So the incentive to use RTA is only there, when volume does not matter, and when making perfect decisions against very good opponents is nessesary to even beat the games. I sometimes watch replays of Sunday Million final tables on PokerStars in the client. And from time to time someone goes into the tank in a way, which makes me think, that maybe they are using some sort of RTA. Last example was 7-8 handed, and UGT opened K9s. A player two seats to his left jammed for around 15BB, it folded to UTG, and now the decision was on him. In a regular MTT this would be a pretty trivial fold, since K9s is near the bottom of our UTG opening range 7-8 handed. Sunday Million however has become a PKO, which mean, you are supposed to call wider, when you can win a bounty. Even so it only took me like 5 seconds to decide, that if it was me, I would fold. The bounty was only average, and calling and losing would cost him like 35-40% of his chips, which would make his position significantly worse. The player however went into the tank and took like a full minute before finally folding. Its possible, he just really wanted to think it through to be sure to not make a mistake on a final table, which might be his biggest ever. But in a minute its also possible to plug everyones stack size and bounty into ICMizer and calculate the Nash calling range to confirm, that K9s is indeed a fold. And I kind of suspect, that maybe something like that is, what was going on. But even if that was the case, is it really that important? A player can only do this a few times before using up his time bank, and I was able to make the same decision in 5 seconds without using RTA. [/QUOTE]

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