Huge Cheating Scandal!
If you read around, you read about old scandals involving Men the Master and Amarillo Slim, but it's the 21st century so now we have something new.
An extremely visible and public high stakes tournament player was caught using multiple accounts in the same tournament on Party Poker. He entered six horses in a single multi-table tournament. He had 100k in assets taken. He said he didn't do the same thing anywhere else. It was discovered by Pokerstars that he did and he had some assets taken there and the rest sent to him and his account closed (I think).
This event brought up a huge public debate on http://www.twoplustwo.com about cheating, ratting, and related issues to what occurred.
I've been reading the monster of a thread for a few days now. I've spent a great deal of time on it and I'm a very fast reader. Here's a link ZeeJustin is Zeecheater thread. I'm now on the 28th page of 30 total pages with a setting of 99 posts per page.
What's most interesting here is that anyone with a brain and a minimal awareness of online poker could realize it's easy to cheat at both ring games (cash games) and single table tournaments, but it seemed that multi-table tournaments were probably safe from such abuses. I was lulled into a false sense of security about MTTs (as they're called in the industry). Apparently, it was fairly widespread behavior amongst high level internet MTTers to engage in multiple accounting in the same tournaments. This tendency may have very quickly changed. And I'm not just speculating.
I'll have some more summary probably later, but the basic point is that this event was a huge big deal. I don't keep up with these lame spotlight whore types, but even I heard of this guy as a very strong tournament performer.
If you read around, you read about old scandals involving Men the Master and Amarillo Slim, but it's the 21st century so now we have something new.
An extremely visible and public high stakes tournament player was caught using multiple accounts in the same tournament on Party Poker. He entered six horses in a single multi-table tournament. He had 100k in assets taken. He said he didn't do the same thing anywhere else. It was discovered by Pokerstars that he did and he had some assets taken there and the rest sent to him and his account closed (I think).
This event brought up a huge public debate on http://www.twoplustwo.com about cheating, ratting, and related issues to what occurred.
I've been reading the monster of a thread for a few days now. I've spent a great deal of time on it and I'm a very fast reader. Here's a link ZeeJustin is Zeecheater thread. I'm now on the 28th page of 30 total pages with a setting of 99 posts per page.
What's most interesting here is that anyone with a brain and a minimal awareness of online poker could realize it's easy to cheat at both ring games (cash games) and single table tournaments, but it seemed that multi-table tournaments were probably safe from such abuses. I was lulled into a false sense of security about MTTs (as they're called in the industry). Apparently, it was fairly widespread behavior amongst high level internet MTTers to engage in multiple accounting in the same tournaments. This tendency may have very quickly changed. And I'm not just speculating.
I'll have some more summary probably later, but the basic point is that this event was a huge big deal. I don't keep up with these lame spotlight whore types, but even I heard of this guy as a very strong tournament performer.
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