AI vs. Collusion: Inside AA POKER Green Shield Plus End-to-End Tech
January 10, 2026
In 2016, AlphaGo defeated a world Go champion. Developed by DeepMind, the AI program AlphaGo beat South Korean world champion Lee Sedol 4–1, drawing global attention. As a highly complex board game originating in China, Go became the first vivid example through which the Chinese public truly experienced the “intelligence” of AI
.In 2017, China introduced policies to promote AI through the “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan.” The Chinese government elevated AI to a national strategy. From education and research to industrial applications, AI quickly became a high-frequency topic in the media, significantly boosting public awareness.
By 2025, DeepSeek-R1 was released and topped app store rankings, sparking a nationwide wave of AI adoption. It reached across industries and age groups, with the vast majority of Chinese people beginning to understand and use AI in their daily lives.
In the realm of imperfect-information games, such as international competitive poker, AI has already been deeply embedded for years. Poker is a game of strategy and psychological warfare, but the use of AI removes human intuition. Unlike human players, AI does not lose emotional control, become fatigued, or make decisions influenced by feelings. This undermines one of the fundamental sources of poker's enjoyment, while also raising serious concerns about fair competition and ethics. Some AI tools even claim win rates of “10 bb/100 hands” or higher, posing unprecedented challenges to the online poker ecosystem. As a preferred platform for friendly games, how does AA POKER ensure a fair and balanced gaming environment for its players?
Since its early launch, the AA POKER team has championed the slogan “A world without thieves.” With hundreds of technical experts working around the clock, the team continuously upgrades and refines its AI risk control system to detect bots and RTA (Real-Time Assistance). This system integrates multi-dimensional behavioral, technical, and gameplay data for comprehensive detection:
1. BEHAVIORAL ALIGNMENT
Players show abnormally high similarity to GTO benchmarks or population baselines in fold/call/raise distributions across positions and effective stack depths. Their bet sizing patterns also closely match solver-preferred sizes over long periods, with minimal “non-typical” sizing noise commonly seen in human play.
2. DECISION ENTROPY & CONSISTENCY
When facing marginal hands (near-indifferent EV spots), action entropy is unusually low—almost always choosing the same action—whereas human players typically exhibit more variation.The difference in decision stability between complex and simple board textures is unusually small; humans tend to hesitate more and show greater variability in complex situations.
3. TEMPORAL FEATURES
Thinking time distributions do not correlate with hand difficulty (e.g., difficult spots are not slower), or exhibit near-constant delays. There may also be frequent patterns of regular timing intervals or synchronized action rhythms across multiple tables.
4. HAND HISTORY SEQUENCE MODELING SCORES
Sequence models and anomaly detection are used to assign players a “solver-likeness” score, which remains significantly above population percentiles over time.
5. CROSS-SCENARIO CONSISTENCY
Strategic fingerprints remain highly consistent across different tables, stakes, formats, and even across multiple (potentially linked) accounts.
6. DEVICE/ENVIRONMENT & RISK CONTROL
Detection of restricted environments such as remote desktops, emulators, or virtual machines; frequent abnormal foreground/background switching or window focus patterns.Device and network fingerprint correlations with suspicious third-party software.
After continuous updates and extensive in-house R&D, in December 2025, AA Green Shield Plus was officially launched. AA POKER is set to lead the industry into the “Zero Cheating 3.0” era—becoming the only app across the network capable of completely banning AI
.AA Green Shield Plus marks another major step forward in combating both AI and collusion. Developed with the involvement of globally renowned security teams, the system leverages end-to-end encryption technologies—including TLS 1.3 full-link encryption, mTLS bidirectional authentication, and private link tunneling—to effectively counter bots, hackers, and AI tools. This combination secures the entire communication chain end-to-end, protecting against three core risks: data eavesdropping, identity spoofing, and route hijacking.
AA Green Shield Plus safeguards every game with three “security gates”:
Locking data inside an encrypted vault
(TLS 1.3)Enforcing mutual identity verification at entry (mTLS)Routing traffic through private channels instead of public networks (private link tunneling)
In simple terms, it makes it extremely difficult for malicious tools or actors to spy, impersonate, or intercept.
These directly address the three concerns players care about most: eavesdropping, impersonation, and hijacking.
1. ANTI-“EAVESDROPPING”: EVEN IF DATA IS INTERCEPTED, IT'S UNREADABLE
You can think of network transmission like sending a package.
Without encryption: It's like shipping items in a transparent bag—anyone along the way can see what's inside.
With TLS 1.3 full-link encryption: It's like sending a tamper-proof locked safe.
Even if someone intercepts it, all they get is unreadable gibberish—and any attempt to alter the contents is immediately detected.
Benefits for players:
Makes it much harder for data-sniffing cheats to exploit intercepted
trafficPrevents sensitive gameplay data from being analyzed or misused through side-channel methods
2. ANTI-“IMPERSONATION”: NOT ONLY DO YOU VERIFY THE SERVER—THE SERVER VERIFIES YOU TOO
Many people assume a login password is enough, but common hacker tactics include account theft, credential stuffing,
session/token replay, and impersonating “you.”
Standard encrypted connection: You verify that you're connecting to the official server.
With mTLS (mutual TLS): An extra layer is added—the server must also verify that you are truly you. It's like:
You show your ID to security at the entranceSecurity also shows their credentialsAnd there's on-the-spot verification (not just flashing a fake photo)Benefits for players:Significantly raises the barrier for “fake client”
impersonationMakes account hijacking, credential replay, and proxy-based spoofing much harder to execute
3. ANTI-“ROUTE HIJACKING”: USE CONTROLLED PRIVATE CHANNELS INSTEAD OF PUBLIC PATHWAYS
Even with full encryption, attackers may still try to interfere by “hijacking the route”—redirecting you to fake endpoints,
intercepting and relaying traffic, or creating disruptions in the network path.
Private link tunneling: This works like a dedicated, enclosed channel between your device and the platform, instead of routing data through unpredictable public networks. It allows the platform to tightly control access points—unauthorized traffic is blocked, and the transmission path becomes far more secure and less susceptible to tampering.Benefits for players:
Reduces the risk of “man-in-the-middle” interferenceLowers exposure to port scanning, probing, and phishing entry pointsThese three “security gates”:TLS 1.3 full-link encryption: eliminates the risk of data being intercepted or tampered withmTLS mutual authentication: prevents identity spoofing and proxy-based client impersonationPrivate link tunneling: mitigates risks of route hijacking, exposed entry points, and side-channel traffic interferenceTogether, they simultaneously suppress three core threats:Eavesdropping (spying) + Impersonation (spoofing) + Hijacking (route interception)
