Do Online Poker Sites Use Bots or their own players

Regular in forums and and on rants people who believe on line poker sites are rigged will say that companies use bots. By bots, they mean non human computer player or people accuse them of using their own staff who know what all the cards are.

Lets first look at why people say there are bots or staged players, the only reasons I have found are:

a) There is no chat from them.
b) They play random hands e.g 9 3 and 993 comes on the flop.
c) They are never seen on the poker site again.

Taking the first one, believe it or not a lot of people have chat turned off, they don't want to get distracted from the game chatting, and do not want to read everybody else's rants. To say because somebody does not chat offers no credibility to their argument.

They play random hands and get a result. I have stated this before there are millions of players online, some very good, who purposely play random hands specially against player they have identified who will only play with big hands AA,AK etc. These players purposely go in against you, knowing they could hit their cards and you could miss. Then there are loads of players who haven't got a clue and will call with anything and yes will sometimes get lucky.

The last argument players are never seen again. When you log onto your poker site all will tell you how many players are currently online at how many tables. This will usually be around 250000. I have been playing poker online for 6 years now, and keep notes of players worth keeping note of. Even doing this I very seldom come across the same players at my table often. It is not surprising with so many players now playing online that you never end up on the same table as a player again.

In summary 250,000 players online at any given times, even if all these players only entered a £5.00 tourney with a 50p buys in the site would make £125,000. Do you think they really need to use bots or stooges to win a a few hundred pounds.