TL;DR
A buddy of mine decided to try out a new player on the poker bot market — a “real AI bot running on poker AI + GTO that plays like top regs” — and paid $1,800 for it. Everything seemed serious and trustworthy, however, after a series of test runs (hand histories were scraped from all sessions + video recording was kept), non-stop patching of junky bugs from 3Up Gaming, we received a bot that plays worse than any fish and simply flushes your stack down the toilet — overall EV winrate: -87bb/100 hands and worse over a volume of ~10k+ hands.
I can say with confidence that this is just another well-hyped scam product on the poker bot market. 3UpGaming’s goal is to sell you the bot immediately (2-3+ units for the max price) which looks like a working product, but in reality, is just an imitation. You will only realize this after a couple of days of testing, while the 3UP manager keeps gaslighting you along with promises of updates. Stay away.
Oct 2026 update: smartpokerrobot.com is 3UP Gaming under a new name
The same operator behind 3UP Gaming now runs smartpokerrobot.com. Their own author markup says so: the sameAs field points to 3upgaming.com. Both sell “AI Poker Robot, White Label Poker Software” and so on.
I know 3UpGaming managers might try to claim this review is fake. If anyone—potential buyers or developers—wants to see the unedited video recordings or the full database of hands, email me at [email protected]. I have nothing to hide.
The Red Flags
I rarely do these breakdowns of other people’s products, but I feel obligated to warn anyone wanting to buy a poker bot in 2026 about this scam. My friend fell for it (and he is far from a fool), so the chance of throwing a couple of thousand dollars into the void is high. Let’s get to the point.
The 3UpGaming project appeared in 2021. In 2024, judging by the Web Archive, they offered iGaming services — you buy a ready-made poker app that is customized for your brand (so-called poker skins). The contact info listed was American — phone number, email, Skype. Okay, you can find a presentation of their services on the internet, I have no questions there.
In mid-2025, global changes occur — the site is significantly reworked, the CMS changes, the text changes, new sections and services are added. It’s visible that a good SEO specialist took over the site, and copywriters are writing mountains of AI-generated articles for them weekly (processed via humanizer services, but after reading them it’s clear it’s all fluff). The site is actively promoted, and backlinks are being bought. Services for poker AI robots (bots) are added, as well as a service for club owners to fill tables with their AI bots.
That’s when my friend saw them on the internet, studied the site, and messaged Alex from 3UP Gaming on Telegram. So, here is what they promise:
“fully automated bots that are a mix of GTO and AI”
“They play exactly like a professional player”
“2–3 bots sit at a table, see each other’s cards and play team play”
“for each robot we give you a VM machine and a unique IP so that the percentage of robots being banned reaches zero.”
“Robots are trained and updated by AI every day.”
Setup of the bot for any poker room and poker format (Hold’em, Omaha).
And all this — for $1,200 setup + $600/month for each bot. Alex sent a few demo videos where their bots are playing on ClubGG.
Sounds not bad, right? But upon requests to show any HH (Hand History) graphs, game results, or successful cases, we get the answer: