Terms of use.

By using this site, you accept these terms.

By accessing or using PokerBot.com, you agree to these terms. If you don't accept, don't use the site. The terms apply to all visitors — operators, prospective clients, press, researchers, casual readers.

These public terms govern the public website only. Active operator engagement contracts are separate legal documents covering specific technology obligations, response commitments, confidentiality and commercial terms; those contracts supersede these public terms within the engagement scope.

What you can do with the content here.

• Read and reference for non-commercial use. The published content on this site — operator playbooks, retrospectives, reference articles — is freely readable and may be quoted in non-commercial publications with attribution.
• Cite in research with attribution. Academic citation of our published material is welcomed. Standard citation format: author (Andrew Kuznetsov or "PokerBot.com Research Team"), title, URL, access date.
• Don't reproduce wholesale. Copying entire articles or reports to other sites without explicit permission is not allowed. Quoting reasonable excerpts with attribution and link-back is fine.
• Don't republish behind paywalls. Our content stays free to read at the canonical URL. Don't redistribute behind subscription paywalls or republish for commercial benefit.
• Don't train ML models without explicit consent. Bulk ingestion of the site's content for ML training is not permitted without prior written consent. We're open to research collaborations; reach the research channel on the contact page.

What the content here is and isn't.

Published material on this site is informational reference for operators evaluating their own situations. It is not, and is not intended to be:

• Legal advice. Discussion of jurisdictional licensing, platform terms, regulatory framing is illustrative of operator-level reality as we observe it. Specific compliance questions belong with qualified legal counsel in your jurisdiction.
• Financial advice. Operational economics discussed in published content describe industry-level observations. Engagement-specific financial decisions belong with your own financial counsel.
• A guarantee of operational outcomes. Operational claims (cold-start mortality rates, off-peak coverage improvements, detection windows) describe aggregate operator-side observations. Individual operator outcomes vary with platform, configuration, population and execution.
• A replacement for due diligence. Any operator considering an engagement (with us or with any vendor) should perform their own diligence on operational fit, legal exposure, and economic case.

What you can't do via this site or technology.

Beyond the content-use restrictions in section 02, these uses are explicitly prohibited:

• No engagement requests for regulated public-room operations. We don't operate against PokerStars, GGPoker, WSOP.com, partypoker, or any state-licensed public operator. Inquiries seeking that work are declined.
• No engagement requests for extractive bot deployment. We don't build or operate bots configured to extract net dollars from real-player pools. Engagement requests seeking that configuration are declined.
• No representation that we endorse a third party. We don't endorse external bot vendors, training tool vendors, or platforms generally. Specific references in our published material describe industry context, not endorsement.
• No attempts to access non-public infrastructure. Standard prohibition on automated scraping at scale, vulnerability testing without authorisation, or attempts to access internal systems. Security disclosures welcomed through the standard responsible-disclosure path (security@pokerbot.com).

Scope of liability and warranty.

The website and its content are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• PokerBot.com is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from use of the website or its content.
• Total liability arising from use of the public website (excluding active engagement contracts) is capped at any direct fees paid for accessing premium content — which currently is zero, the public content being freely accessible.
• Active engagement contracts contain their own liability framework which supersedes these public terms within the engagement scope.
• Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law (e.g., for death or personal injury caused by gross negligence, fraud, or any liability that cannot be limited by contract under the governing jurisdiction).

Updates, governing law, and dispute resolution.

• Changes to these terms may be made periodically. The "effective" date at the top reflects the current version. Material changes will be announced; continued use after announcement constitutes acceptance.
• Governing law: these public terms are governed by the laws of Hong Kong. Active engagement contracts may specify different governing law per agreement.
• Dispute resolution: any dispute arising from these public terms is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong. Engagement contracts may specify arbitration or different forums per agreement.
• Severability: if any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in force.