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I have repetitive strain injury in my hands which made it difficult to play online poker (it's a lot of mouse moving and clicking i.e. folding)

So I created a script which took a screenshot every 100ms, it scanned the image and checked the cards I had.

If the cards were bad (e.g 2h7s), it clicked "fold" for me automatically



Auto-folders are explicitly banned by basically all online poker sites.

They are practically cheating. Of course if it folds certain hands a 100% of the time, then it’s just horrible for you, because no hand is a fold 100% of the time.

Even 72o is playable from the big blind if you’re the one closing the action and the price is right.

You should probably consider an autohotkeys script, or a mouse with macro buttons.




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