Read this:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money-s...3&in_page_id=5

Here's a quote:

"I'm doing pretty well. I have two computer systems, and each one can run four poker bots, and each of those four can play up to five tables at once. At worst I make on average £2.90 an hour at each table. That's a minimum of £116 an hour if I can get all the bots running at once."

Poker sites do everything they can to combat this new problem too. Here's another quote:

"I play Partypoker, pokerstars and other poker sites often. However, I have read on numerous msg boards that certain poker clients (PartyPoker in particular!) take screenshots of your desktop that are saved to a local folder (ex: c:\temp) and then they are sent to partypoker!

I read a letter from a former employee of partypoker who quit because of how unethical the behavior was. Apperently $5/hr costa rican employees would pass around funny screenshots of peoples desktops which may include things like private bank acct info!!"

Another interesting read:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money-s...5&in_page_id=5

quote from the article:

"I got banned and had my funds taken when one of the biggest WinHoldEm botters in the world - a Vegas guy - got busted and it led back to me. He got lazy and had 50 accounts seized - enough money to buy a few new cars. The accounts were linked to bank details and then to another account that belonged to a pro poker player; I'd traded him an account of mine and the trail came back to me. Now I need two new identities to replace my bots. After the thousands of hours of programming and testing, I suppose this is the only hard part."