# BetOnline Poker Bot

> Independent technical research notes on poker bots, detection topology and the Chico Network ecosystem around BetOnline Poker — the US-facing post-Black-Friday market.

BetOnline Poker Bot is a working notebook on the realities of automated poker software at BetOnline, a Panama-licensed operator running on the Chico Network atop a PartyPoker-derived codebase. The site treats BetOnline as a case study in a distinct market segment: US-facing, crypto-friendly, weaker regulation than European licensed rooms, smaller security team than GGPoker or PokerStars, and a documented history of bot busts in 2014 and 2018. Material is written for developers, researchers, and curious players who want a sober technical view rather than a marketing surface.

The author is Raul Moriarty, Poker Software Expert and Communications Lead at Poker Bot AI, with 15+ years across software, business development, and online poker technology. Each long-form note is self-contained and citation-friendly: summary boxes at the top, table-of-contents with anchors, definition lists for technical terms, comparison tables, and named references to the published literature (Brown & Sandholm on Pluribus; Moravčík et al. on DeepStack; Dalvi 2004 and Lowd & Meek 2005 on adversarial classification).

## Pages

- [Home](https://betonlinebot.com/): Overview of BetOnline Poker as an automation target — the Chico Network, the PartyPoker codebase lineage, the post-Black-Friday US player pool, and what "poker bot" actually means in 2026 against this room.
- [BetOnline Poker Hacks: Technical Reality](https://betonlinebot.com/betonline-poker-hack/): Why server-side exploits, RNG predictions and hole-card peeks are not feasible on the BetOnline stack; player concerns over historical RNG audits; the older PartyPoker codebase and what it does and does not change in the threat model.
- [BetOnline Cheating Detection: Architecture, Signals, Failure Modes](https://betonlinebot.com/betonline-poker-cheat/): Detection topology with a smaller security team than GGPoker, documented 2014 and 2018 bot cleanups, HUD policy enforcement variability, and collusion risk inside a segregated US player pool.
- [BetOnline Poker Bot Developer FAQ](https://betonlinebot.com/betonline-poker-bot-faq/): Twenty questions on bot economics at BetOnline — stakes viability, crypto bankrolls, HUD support, detection compared to GGPoker and PokerStars, US legal exposure, and the size of historical bot busts.
- [Author: Raul Moriarty](https://betonlinebot.com/author/raul-moriarty/): Background, focus areas, and contact.

## Contact

- [Telegram chat](https://t.me/PokerBotAI_ShopBot): Low-volume channel read by the Poker Bot AI team. Questions, implementation discussion, research collaboration, corrections welcome. Sales messages auto-archived.

## Not affiliated with

BetOnline, the Chico Network, or any operator. Independent third-party research notes.