Eyebrows were raised involving a recent event on PokerStars that occurred late on the second day during this year's Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) when many questioned whether the runner-up was a human player or a bot.
After investigating the situation, PokerStars ruled that the player was indeed human and not powered by artificial intelligence. Here's how the situation unfolded.
When the TCOOP-08: $82 NL Hold'em [Turbo, Big Antes, Optional Re-Entry], $200K Gtd was down to just two players, a PokerStars representative with the screenname "HostMatthieM" was invited into chat to help potentially facilitate a deal between the final two players — Finland's "LuckboxStami" and Russia's "IvanHaldi".