[ Update: two of the original authors of this post have moved on to greener pastures, and have asked us to mothball this content in preparation for an upcoming book. Thanks for all the feedback and stay tuned for more technical poker content in the future.]

Introduction

Last week, we posted about how we built a working, real-money online poker bot. This week, we'll discuss how to get started building your own bot, address some specific bot-building techniques, talk about the woeful state of online poker user privacy, respond to a few reader questions and comments, and close out with some recommended reading...