Andrey "TylerRM" Streltsov on the mining ban and data analysis in the Blefach podcast

The editor-in-chief of one of the most popular telegram channels in the Russian-language poker space, “Blefach”, Egor Dergachev, invited Andrey “TylerRM” Streltsov, a specialist in working with big data and the main expert in detecting online poker bots, to the podcast.

During the hour of conversation they managed to discuss the future of online poker, its problem areas, scandals and much more. Time codes of the most interesting moments:

0:11 Intro

0:38 Introducion of Andrey Streltsov

1:49 What is mining

2:20 What mining gives

5:13 How Tyler started fighting bots

6:49 What does the mining ban give or not give to players?

10:30 The becoming of Fedor Holtz as the ambassador of fair play at GGPoker is a reason to discuss this topic

11:35 Poker is not a zero-sum game

14:00 Consequences of using mining in GG

15:05 Poker becomes a closed game

16:10 Who does mining work against?

21:10 Positive aspects from poker rooms

24:12 The problem of staff shortages in poker rooms

25:10 How the situation with the closure of poker on the GGPoker network is developing

27:48 Everything is done for the sake of poker ecology

29:15 Why Tyler fights bots and what might happen in the future

30:10 Case of a superuser at GGPoker Moneytaker

31:55 The story of white hacker Eddie Harrari

33:20 The problem of vulnerabilities in clients, who is to blame and the consequences

36:04 Example of Hofr (GodSpeedYou!), who was banned from GG

39:33 Example of Daniil Dubov

40:30 Poker - team game

42:37 Scandal Brandon Brown vs Paul Kinon

44:54 Complicating the rules using the example of PokerStars Security Council

46:50 Blocking Andrey Babyshark Kozlenko on PokerStars

47:54 Scandal with partypoker, which stole $700K from a player

48:37 What do amateurs really want?

49:30 Poll of high stakes players with results

52:06 Does Tyler want to fight bots?

53:46 The idea of the “poker dream” is being killed

56:51 Summary (not positive)