Poker Bot Setup Checklist

Use this before the first session with any bot, including ours. Most beta bug reports we receive trace back to a skipped item on this list.

1. Decide with open eyes

• Read the room’s or app’s terms. You are about to break them.
• Read Are poker bots legal? for your jurisdiction.
• Decide how much money you are prepared to lose to a confiscation, and keep no more than that on the account.

2. Fix the environment

• Operating system meets requirements.
• Emulator installed, resolution and DPI set and written down.
• App installed at a version the bot’s profile supports.
• A second monitor, or a screen layout where nothing will cover the table window.

3. Calibrate

• Load the profile for your app and table theme.
• Open a play-money or lowest-stakes table and confirm the bot reads cards, stacks, pot and buttons correctly while you watch.
• Sit through a full orbit without letting it act, checking the log against what you see.

4. Set limits

• Stakes, number of tables, session length, stop-loss.
• Pause and takeover hotkeys tested.
• Sit-out rule for short-handed tables set.

5. Dry run

• One short session, one table, lowest stakes, watching every hand.
• Review the log afterwards for misreads and questionable actions.
• Only then increase tables or stakes, one step at a time.

6. Ongoing

• Keep the hand history export on and back up logs.
• Do not update the app or the emulator without checking the changelog.
• Report bugs with the log attached.

7. Exit plan

Know in advance what you will do if the account is frozen: which agent to contact, what evidence you have of deposits, and that the answer is often that the money is gone. Plan for it, then decide whether to proceed.