Editing Computer poker player (section)

=== House bots ===
“House bots” can pose a conflict of interest.  By the strictest definition, a house bot is an automated player operated by the online poker room itself.  These type of bots would be the equivalent of brick and mortar [[shill]]s.

Both brick and mortar casino shills and online house bots are not supposed to have access to any information that is not also available to any other player in the hand. The problem is that in an online setting the house has no way to prove their bots are not receiving sensitive information from the card server. This is further exacerbated by the ease with which clandestine information sharing can be accomplished in a digital environment. It is essentially impossible even for the house to prove that they do not control some players.