Over 800 Bots… or More? The Madness Surrounding QQPK

What Happened in October 2026?

On October 9th, 2026, very similar posts appeared on X/Twitter, the TwoPlusTwo forum, and Reddit, in which the authors claimed to have discovered approximately 2,587 bots on the poker site QQPK.

According to their detailed 14-page document, the player-investigators examined 4.18 million hand histories collected on QQPK between July 2nd and October 2nd, 2026, and identified these accounts as using automated decision-making systems. This was indicated by:

• Similar statistical profiles
• Round-number 3-bet sizes
• Consistent limp–3-bet behaviour
• 193,757 all-ins: approximately 138,705 bb above equity expectation
• 33,958 exact flop/turn calculations: approximately 19,006 bb above expectation

The latter two points are especially curious because of “a reported deviation of 14.6 standard deviations” under their calculation model.

The investigators sent all the gathered information to QQPK for verification — and also released it publicly to warn the poker community.

How QQPK Responded to the Players’ Investigation

On October 10th, QQPK issued a statement regarding the situation, confirming that it had received the data and had begun re-verifying the information provided.

In its statement, the poker room announced that all 2,587 accounts identified by the investigators have been frozen and are “being reviewed for unauthorized automated play and related integrity violations”, including re-run of the all-in EV analysis.

QQPK also announced that the final report would be published on October 17th, 2026; however, as early as October 13th, they reported that 724 accounts had been confirmed to be involved in unauthorized automated gameplay.

They were banned, but the investigation continued — and on October 15th, QQPK released an extensive longread detailing what else they had done. Key points from it:

• The room confirmed the discovery of a bot syndicate.
• The room clarified that the data provided to it was subject to “selection bias” and suffered from “severe sampling limitations.” For instance, out of the 4,866,164 raw lines of data provided, only 1,757,070 unique hands remained after strict server-side physical deduplication.
• The room decided to establish a $300,000 compensation fund, consisting of two parts: funds confiscated from violators and the platform’s own resources.

QQPK also reported that they ultimately checked slightly more accounts than the number they had been sent — 2,913 in total — and identified 893 bots among them, all of which were subsequently banned. They also had $64,627 confiscated from them.

Finally, the room outlined the criteria for a player to be considered eligible for compensation:

1. Participated in tournaments (MTT) held within the past three months;
2. Were seated at the same table as two or more violating accounts in the same hand, as verified by a hand-by-hand review of game records;
3. Incurred a loss in the relevant tournaments, i.e., the total actual buy-ins exceeded the total actual prizes received.

And it also announced the date for the automatic payout of compensations in USD to affected players: October 20th, 2026.

…But That’s Not the End!

On October 15th, Vojtech “MTT Database Review” Cervinka — a well-known investigator of online poker cheating — shared his own research of suspicious accounts on QQPK:

• The analysis covers the period from July 16th to October 11th, 2026
• 24M player-hands across 3.78M hand histories
• An estimated 17.5M hands — about 70% of the collected database — were played by bots
• 11,469 nicknames are suspected by him to be associated with botting
• In total, he identified an estimated 12K bots

In the comments under the QQPK conclusion, Vojtech asked what kind of reward he would receive for his work, but as of the time this article was published, he had not received even an answer.