Full Tilt Poker started a crackdown against poker bots on its site last week, permanently closing a number of accounts and confiscating their funds. No details of how many Full Tilt Poker Review accounts were closed or how much was recovered were given, but the site has promised that genuine players affected by the offenders would be reimbursed in full from the money confiscated. The use of bot software is strictly prohibited on Full Tilt, as it is on most online poker sites.

Full Tilt’s investigation identified a company, Shanky Technologies, as being responsible for the software behind some of the most frequently used bots; the company released a statement in response stating Full Tilt Referral Code “quite suddenly and without warning froze all the accounts… although it tolerated the presence of bots all this time.”

The move follows the exposure of a ring of bot players based in China on Pokerstars during the summer. That ring had made more than $57,000 from playing Double or Nothing sit-and-go games. Full Tilt did not specify what type of games had been affected by the bots, but bot programs are known to target both cash and sit-and-go games.