Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Latest tournament controversy

So it turns out JJProdigy, a prominent online player, won 140K on the big one on Party (I believe) this weekend. The thing is, JJProdigy actually finished somewhere out of the money, but then he won the tournament on his "grandma"'s account, after he took over for her. Apparently he stakes her and then took over for her in this instance. Is the Bush administration writing his responses to?? Does he think everyone is that stupid?

Basically he was playing in the same tournament with more than 1 entry. Not such a big deal until you consider the possibility of both players being on the same table at some point. Then collusion, chip dumping, cheating, sandwiching, etc....come into play.

There are a few posts on 2+2 saying he should lose the money, and I tend to agree. It turns out this practice is very widespread, and sending a message like this would definitely help reduce/eliminate this issue. If they do take the money, they should use this as an example of the consequences of cheating.

Now I don't have the time to e-mail the sites and basically start a crusade against this type of practice, I'll leave that to the people without real jobs, children, girlfriends, lives, etc....

My favorite quote about this practice came from a thread on 2+2. Here is the quote from a poster named Roman: "I personally have multiaccounted in a few tournaments in the past, however I realized this was a mistake and stopped. When I first started doing this, I FTed a 109r on 2 accounts and realized that even though I would never collude, this is a huge problem. It definitely damages the integrity of the game."

Huh???

So you made the final table with 2 accounts, yet would never collude???? Were you playing with split personalities? It would be impossible to not collude in this situation, even with the best of intentions. In the least you would know 2 of the hands at the table.

There is way too much money at stake for this type of thing to not be taken seriously. Otherwise the integrity of the game is ruined. Then all we have is the NFL.

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