The bot the customer runs on their own account
A betting bot is a program a customer runs against their own account: it watches a market, applies a rule they wrote, and sends the order faster than they could. It breaks nothing technical - it uses the same interface and the same credentials - and it breaks the account term precisely because the person is no longer at the button. Of the 900 sampled orders, 520 were placed this way.
- bot orders
- 520
- bot share
- 57.8%
- credentials
- the holder own
- what it saves
- about 9.3 s per order
- orders in a day
- up to 2,000
- flagged
- in the 62
A betting bot is a program the customer runs on their own account with their own credentials. It breaks no interface rule by existing, but it breaks the account term by placing bets without the holder at the button. Of 900 sampled software orders, 520 came from a customer bot, and bots were the largest single source of the 62 that were flagged.
The rule the bot cannot see
The bot optimises the price and ignores the term, because a rule does not read a contract. That is the whole trap: the advantage of the bot is real and so is the breach, and the platform that pays the better price is the same platform that revokes the account if it notices. The sample shows the shape - 520 bot orders, and bots among the flagged 62 rather than only among the keys.
| signal | what it looks like |
|---|---|
| timing | orders a fixed 1.4 s apart, around the clock |
| precision | a stake to the cent, always the same |
| reaction | an order 0.08 s after a price change, repeatedly |
| absence | no reading time, no stake edits, no abandoned slips |
| a person leaves a human trace; a bot leaves a regular one | |