They have the highest number of USA based players, and stack depths are so funky that its hard to imagine a bot is able to adjust for all these varying stack sizes and play profitably. The safest games have always been the rathole ones imo.

I play mainly 5/10+ or $88+ mtts(I think my ABI for mtts is $200ish) and these games feel much safer than on an app for example. On ACR while by no means am I naivete to think no bots or no collusion exists, I do feel safe playing higher stakes especially as more and more of the pool are people that are known in the community. This is much less of a problem at lower stakes where the level of play isn't great to begin with. But with bots you have to constantly tweak them and adjust due to pool frequencies so you need to actually be good at poker. Making $50 a day in some countries is life changing, so the incentive to run a bot at. I do think tho that lower stakes the bot/collusion issue is much more prevalent than higher stakes. I think a lot of the hate the site gets is from people who don't actually play on it, or they play and lose a few deposits and cry bot, not understanding they'd lose that deposit anywhere they decided to play. 200 blitz imo is the one place I could see bots still thriving, but over the years I've seen drastic improvement in the quality of the games(in terms of higher quality=more fair, less bots).

I have been a reg on here for a few years spending periods of times doing nothing but tons of volume in nlh cash, plo cash, mtts, sng's, on demands, ratholes of all kinds, jackpots when I'm bored and even blitz when a huplo pool starts running or higher than 200 blitz.

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