When the U.S. gambling laws loosened in 2018, the many and various ways it would destroy people’s lives were widely predicted. It wasn’t hard to guess: you just had to look at every other country where it was allowed, not least the UK. But perhaps few would have bet on (sorry) this resulting in a situation seven years later where bots were making small fortunes betting on online video games. One such bot, named TeemuTeemuTeemu, has made $230,000 in just five months gambling via Polymarket on games like Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and League of Legends.
Bot made $900 -> $208k in 3 months on polymarket
one of the most talked about bots on polymarket right now
farmed $208,521 pure profit in a quarterfocus exclusively on esports
mainly LoL and Dota 2bot monitors live game
parses stream and official data faster than market… pic.twitter.com/YTueu8U3Dm— Archive (@ArchiveExplorer) December 29, 2025
As noticed by X user ArchiveExplorer, the bot has made the majority of this money in the last three months, making observations of live games faster than any human could, and getting its bets in before the market can react to events in games. As such, it’s able to get bets in at far lower or higher odds than humans trying to react to in-game kills or objectives, and thus to game the market for maximum profit.
Scrolling through the bot’s history of bets, it wins far more often than it loses, putting fairly large sums (routinely between $200 and $20,000) on very marginal improvements, bringing in modest wins of a few bucks up to around $1500. But it does this a lot—1,127 times over the months—with its biggest win being $89.3k in one bet.
You’ll never guess who let this happen
Of course, using bots to predict markets and make light-speed decisions isn’t anything new when it comes to gambling. That’s how the stock markets have worked for years. Given the recent rise of Polymarket, a crypto-scam-based prediction market where anyone can place bets on pretty much anything, it’s inevitable that it will eventually be entirely dominated by bots and algorithms, racing to be the fastest and most precise.
Polymarket’s recent success is largely down to the Trump administration’s relaxing of regulations surrounding such an enterprise, driven—you’ll be astonished to learn—by a desire to allow Trump’s farcical Truth Social platform to offer the same sort of prediction gambling. Announced a couple of months ago, Truth Predict is the Trump Media & Technology Group’s attempt, in partnership with Crypto.com, to muscle in on the market. Fun fact: according to the Financial Times, Crypto.com donated $11 million to “Trump causes,” shortly followed by the closing of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into the company.
Oh, and guess what! Donald Trump Jr. sits on the board of Polymarket! It so happens that back in July, investigations into whether Polymarket had been acting illegally were dropped by Trump’s government, after the company had previously stopped operating in the U.S. when the Biden administration suggested it might be running “an illegal exchange.”
Quick aside: any small part of the above would have been enough to end a presidency at any previous point in history. Now, this is just one of many, many schemes, scams, and grifts the current president is running, out in the open, with no consequences at all.
La la la, everything’s fine, do bee do bee doo, ArchiveExplorer suggests there’s now a lot of competition to build similar and faster bots than TeemuTeemuTeemu, all designed to exploit the ways in which games like Dota and LoL are competitively played. Money isn’t real, capitalism is a grift, and 47.4 million Americans live with food insecurity.
