SSL was first, website login equipped with deposit and withdrawal buttons will be here tomorrow.

Stay tuned.

Satoshi Poker now has SSL on our site and server side..

Point-to-point encryption with the website and poker server for maximum protection.

https://satoshipoker.org

HTML5 CLIENT

https://satoshipoker.org/html5

Thanks for the heads up.

Anything over 1 chip should be allowed.

Cashout minimum is 500 chips.

Deposits work again.

When our server was having maintenance , the deposits end of it was never brought back up.

Everything is back to normal now, and your deposits should show in your accounts.

It seems that there is an issue with our deposit page. We have temporarily shut it down to analyse the issue and fix the problem.

yes, deposits should be instant. Im now checking out what happened

We tried that and it got removed.

I guess if you started one, they could not deny you your 1st amendment right to comment on the site.

Regardless we should be up there with an "official" thread soon.

Thank you for your support!

We are working out a deal with them to get a post up there.

Those posts aren't free you know .

Sites back up sorry for the hiccup.

Our hosting provider had a late-night maintenance that we were not notified about.

Our sincere apologies.

There are no "house bots" being used at Satoshi Poker.

Even if we wanted to, we have enough feature requests and improvements to keep us busy for a year.

Satoshi Poker has never and will NEVER use in-house bots.

There are MANY players complaining about this certain individual on our site.

We have already said we are going to take a look at the problem, but instead he continues bashing us publicly when we have done nothing but give him easy games and a fair & honest environment to play in.

Regardless your points are duly noted, and we will try to lighten our approach with inflammatory customers. But please don't ask us to forgive public defamation and libel. Saying "we don't care" about the bots in our site is false, and goes against what we has already promised.

We have a pretty good track record of keeping our promises.

We are seriously looking into this now. We have to find a solution to keep people like this away from our site. Next time they probably won't be programmed that bad...

I am not against it, I just don't think captcha's will solve the problem. Bots are on any site with or without captcha's. But as I said I will look into it and already requested our software developers for a decent anti bot system.

We have enough on our plates as it is.

Lets add to that the rest of the facts:
1. You have accused nearly every player on the site for being a bot and everytime i got into the chat 'all of a sudden they started talking to make you look bad', as if a bot owner would sit watching his bots all day just to see when you start to talk about them
2. You started the day with attacking me telling me you would "expose satoshi poker on 2+2, youtube and destroy the site" and then you actually uploaded 2 video's, exactly the same moment that all these 'suspected bots' came online
3. The kind of sessions you play:   2013/06/10 05:56:28 GMT +00:00 till  2013/06/11 00:15:27 GMT +00:00  total 18h 18m 59s  playing 21 tournaments and still playing at this very moment
4. You make a daytime job of trying to expose these 'big bad enemies' while you are making almost a bitcoin a day winning against these suspected bots. Isn't that strange? Or are you not keeping up with the side costs of your old hobby?
5. To explain people what you considered your old hobby, this is what you wrote in the chat:


Were you really only using these bots years ago? What bot owner would start making accounts that will get noticed instantly by the guy who is trying to expose them? What drives you to make these insane sessions day after day and flaming the chatboxes non stop? What makes the bot owner work exactly the same sessions, always noticing and responding when you are flaming them? Doesn't that make a bot useless, when you are monitoring it for 18 hours straight and looking at everything that gets said or done?

I think the answer is easy. I think you ARE running these bots and then pretending you are fighting them. You have the knowledge of pokerbots, you have operated them before, you are working the same sessions, they only speak to respond to you, and then you accuse me in the chatbox for running these bots.

You have 24h to withdraw your balance. Then be gone. And take your bots with you.

Captcha solving is an easy process. Almost all automation software have captcha solving included. So we would spend a lot of money to create a captcha system which brings no extra security just to make people feel safer? I'll look into it what the costs will be

Dear players,

Yesterday and today I have been chatting in tournaments with a few of our players and apperantly there seem to be some suspicion that some of the players at Satoshi Poker are using a bot to play. After reviewing some of these players we have noticed that indeed sometimes some strange moves occur such as refusing to steal the bigblind from a player that sits out when a player is in the small blind.

This issue puts us in a dilemma. The only way we could ban accounts and confiscate funds is if we have absolute proof that somebody is using a bot, and not just watching a movie during play and thus sometimes not notice the steal opportunity. The only way we could build security against bots is by scanning processes and the hard drive and we will never do that. Our customers might have wallet files on their systems and we don't even remotely want any suspicion on searching for them.

Our dilemma is threefold. First, the very nature of bitcoin doesnt allow us to scan for bots and thus we can't actively fight them. Second is: almost every player at our site has already been accused at least once of being a bot and we can't afford to ban players and confiscate their funds when they were not botting at all. That would be theft. Third, almost every pokersite fights bots but no site seems to succeed in it, considering the thousands of bots on ipoker network and the Full Tilt banround back in 2010, closing over 4000 accounts. They use screenshots, drive scanning, processes scanning and so on and still all the major sites are full of these bots.

After speaking with customers in the chat of some tournaments, there seem to be one thing clear: the people are confident some others are bots and mostly 'because they always fold for a minbet on the river' or 'that was a bot fold, nobody would fold there' and more statements like that. The consensus on the tables is that certain bots are very exploitable and some of the players already managed to take the stacks of the bot suspected players.

As we can't fight bots effectively, we don't want to offer our customers a false feeling of security by pretending we do fight them. We just can't. Personally I hope that the better players at Satoshi Poker will beat the living sh*t out of their bankrolls

Good luck at the tables!

This is a good point. I added a s22 Turbo Bankroll Builder to the schedule. No more gtd prizes on the micro buyins tho...

We almost have our hand history feature completed. We will use the exact same format as pokerstars so that these programs can process hand history files as usual. Me made a mistake by creating our own format first, but to get HM or PT to support a small site would take longer than just build something they support. It is coming soon!