[albatrossjr]

Surprisingly, no. Most sites do a good job of finding and banning bots. It's also fairly easy to spot a bot. They will make odd sized bets at times. You check to see if that betting line is taken in a solver.

[raincole]

Sites have very a strong incentive to make you believe this. Otherwise no human would join anymore.

[vmg12]

I'm beating online poker. The difficulty of beating online poker is very much dependent on the site and the rake.

[jliptzin]

That’s not true, people willingly put money into games that they know are heavily slanted against them all the time.

Even some people who are victims of scams admit that at the time they sent some/all of money they knew it was a scam but did it anyway.

[Waterluvian]

And then there’s all the bots you aren’t spotting.

[albatrossjr]

I'm sure there is some, but it's standard practice to keep at database of all your hands. I've sanity checked the winning regs (at my stakes) and they all make mistakes. I think it helps that in the US all the sites are geography based. It makes it harder and less financially viable to run a bot ring.

[kyleblarson]

Then you have to worry about the site itself being shady. Live poker is really the only path. Plus it's so much more fun.