A Polymarket Bot Makes A Fortune Betting On Dota 2

When the U.S. playing legal guidelines loosened in 2018, the many and various ways it would destroy people’s lives had been broadly predicted. It wasn’t arduous to guess: you simply had to have a look at each different nation the place it was allowed, not least the UK. However maybe few would have wager on (sorry) this leading to a scenario seven years later the place bots had been making small fortunes betting on on-line video video games. One such bot, named TeemuTeemuTeemu, has made $230,000 in simply 5 months playing through Polymarket on video games like Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and League of Legends.

Bot made $900 -> $208k in 3 months on polymarket

some of the talked about bots on polymarket proper now
farmed $208,521 pure revenue in 1 / 4

focus solely on esports
primarily LoL and Dota 2

bot screens dwell recreation
parses stream and official information sooner than market… pic.twitter.com/YTueu8U3Dm

— Archive (@ArchiveExplorer) December 29, 2025

As seen by X person ArchiveExplorer, the bot has made the vast majority of this cash within the final three months, making observations of dwell video games sooner than any human might, and getting its bets in earlier than the market can react to occasions in video games. As such, it’s capable of get bets in at far decrease or larger odds than people making an attempt to react to in-game kills or targets, and thus to recreation the marketplace for most revenue.

Scrolling by way of the bot’s history of bets, it wins way more usually than it loses, placing pretty massive sums (routinely between $200 and $20,000) on very marginal enhancements, bringing in modest wins of some bucks as much as round $1500. Nevertheless it does this a lot—1,127 occasions over the months—with its greatest win being $89.3k in a single wager.

You’ll by no means guess who let this occur

In fact, utilizing bots to foretell markets and make light-speed decisions isn’t something new in the case of playing. That’s how the stock markets have worked for years. Given the latest rise of Polymarket, a crypto-scam-based prediction market the place anybody can place bets on just about something, it’s inevitable that it’s going to ultimately be solely dominated by bots and algorithms, racing to be the quickest and most exact.

Polymarket’s latest success is essentially right down to the Trump administration’s enjoyable of rules surrounding such an enterprise, pushed—you’ll be astonished to study—by a want to permit Trump’s farcical Reality Social platform to supply the identical type of prediction playing. Introduced a few months in the past, Reality Predict is the Trump Media & Know-how Group’s try, in partnership with Crypto.com, to muscle in available on the market. Enjoyable reality: according to the Financial Times, Crypto.com donated $11 million to “Trump causes,” shortly adopted by the closing of an investigation by the Securities and Trade Fee into the corporate.

Oh, and guess what! Donald Trump Jr. sits on the board of Polymarket! It so occurs that again in July, investigations into whether or not Polymarket had been performing illegally had been dropped by Trump’s authorities, after the corporate had beforehand stopped working within the U.S. when the Biden administration urged it is likely to be working “an illegal exchange.”

Fast apart: any small a part of the above would have been sufficient to finish a presidency at any earlier level in historical past. Now, this is only one of many, many schemes, scams, and grifts the present president is working, out within the open, with no penalties in any respect.

La la la, all the pieces’s nice, do bee do bee doo, ArchiveExplorer suggests there’s now lots of competitors to construct comparable and sooner bots than TeemuTeemuTeemu, all designed to take advantage of the methods by which video games like Dota and LoL are competitively performed. Cash isn’t actual, capitalism is a grift, and 47.4 million Americans live with food insecurity.