Facebook Poker Chips Blog

Archive for February, 2010

The most frequent comments and emails I receive are probably about facebook poker cheats and whether I know where to find them. The second most common question I get is about facebook poker bots or zynga poker bots and whether they actually exist. As I’m sure you well know by now, a poker bot is an computer program that completely automates the process of playing poker for you, in theory winning you facebook poker chips while you snooze or clean the house or look at online porn (yea we all know about that). They have been in use in real money poker games on the internet for years now, with some people claiming to make be making thousands of dollars a day or week by using them.

Whether or not these claims are true is irrelevant, as there is simply no way to prove or disprove such claims because anyone who uses these programs would never announce it to the world due to the fact that they are illegal on most poker sites and are grounds to have your account banned if caught using them. These poker bots are extremely good at emulating human play though, so it’s next to impossible for sites like poker stars or full tilt to actually catch the bot users. Since there’s a lot of money in for real money bots there’s a big incentive for producing working programs for these games. But what about facebook poker? Would anyone really invest that much time in to such a complex program that can only win zynga poker chips?

Apparently there is or was a working facebook poker bot at one time that players could download and read about at http://www.botage.com. While I don’t know whether it works the way it claims to, I guess it answers the questions of whether or not someone would really spend the time to make a working facebook poker bot. It probably doesn’t work anymore and I don’t advocate using or downloading bots for poker games anyway, so anything on that site is meant strictly for entertainment or educational purposes.

Sure I’ve read some weird stories about Facebook Poker players and the lows they’ll stoop to for a few free facebook poker chips, but Facebook’s Farmville fans seem to take the cake when it comes to gaming obsessions..

Make sure you’re not wasting your facebook poker chips in Facebook Texas Holdem by making these amateur mistakes.

1- Too Much Bluffing – Sometimes winning facebook poker chips with a bluff is more exciting than winning with a good hand, leading many facebook texas holdem poker players to overbluff in the game.

2- Focus On Your Own Cards - Pay attention to your possible outs and the strength of your hand relative to the cards on the table.

3- Betting With a Mediocre Hand on the River – It’s usually not a smart move to bet with facebook poker chips on the river.

4- Too Much Slow Playing – Hiding your strong hand and deceiving opponents while forcing them to feed facebook poker chips into the pot is always fun, but too much of this can bite you in the ass if you don’t consider the type of hands your opponents might be drawing on.

5- Checking the Bettor – Don’t let opponents see “free cards” if you have a strong hand. Bet aggressively when you believe you have the strongest hand.

6- Not Wanting to Get Bluffed – Some players will continue playing and calling bets of facebook pokerchips even when they have a bad hand, simply because of ego or not wanting to get bluffed out of a pot.

7- Mood Related Mistakes – It’s normal to get angry after a big loss or missed opportunity, but if you let your emotions make the call on the next hand you’ll only dig yourself a depper hole in facebook poker.

8- Under Betting the Pot – When you feel someone is on a draw and waiting for their cards to fall, make strong bets to force your opponents to make a bad decision.

9- Wrong Bluffing Amounts – Will a million facebook texas holdem poker chips force out your opponents? How about twenty million? You have to accurately gauge what a “big bet” is when trying to decide if it will force them to lay down their hand, otherwise you are just throwing away your chips for the benefit of whoever has the strongest hand.