In this problem, forget about poker. You are looking, at a conceptual level, to automate interaction with a program. This program just happens to be a poker app.

You need to decide what you will use to control the poker app. Whatever tool that is (you'd like it to be driven by Perl, based on your post) should have equal capability to "read" as to "interact"

In my world (web automation), we use things like WWW::Selenium to "drive", to both 'read' what is being displayed by the browser, as well as 'interact' whenever we'd like.

So: have you figured out what technology the ipoker app runs on? What operating system are you running it on? I haven't played in ipoker (i have played on a skin of carbon poker, on bodog/bovada, as well as PokerStars and FullTilt). While I do not condone bots to play poker, this is a simple problem once you decide how to "drive" the poker app. I just won't show any code for you to do so. Bots are strongly considered cheating, or at least very poor form, in the online poker world. You already know this... and you already know that most reputable poker sites block such bots...if they catch you, they will do all in their power to make sure you don't ever access their sites again.

good luck.

-TJ

In reply to Re: Poker Datamine by technojosh
in thread Poker Datamine by bennierounder

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