http://blogs.cardrunners.com/Brian/My-Apology

"<SPAN>For the past 6 months I have been playing under the 2<SUP>nd</SUP> aliases Stellarnebula on FTP and makersmark66 on pokerstars......"

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...d.php?t=238353</SPAN>

only a 6 month ban at least he didn't get Jon Littled

^^^^^ LOL

Its amazing he can't admit that he was stealing EV from his oppononets putting them at a distinct disadvantage hiding his identity. Here I am paying cardrunners hoping to build up enough of a rolll and skill to at one point play in the games the owner is fleecing. 25k is about 1 buyin for months of fleecing, seems fair. And he only came out with this because 2+2 exposed him - this wasn't heart fealt - its damage control after brian got caught cheating other players out of their money....nothing else.

must have been at work and missed the original post...can someone link me to it please.

 

Originally Posted by the_snail03

no biggy, I mean he did say sorry.....

when a poker site has a tourney a player should get a random number and keep that number till the tourney is over. No names to worry about, no data mining, nothing to apologize for - you know what i'm saying?

 

Originally Posted by RustyNail

when a poker site has a tourney a player should get a random number and keep that number till the tourney is over. No names to worry about, no data mining, nothing to apologize for - you know what i'm saying?

Lee Jones was a big proponent of this idea.

 

Originally Posted by MarkFSU1

 

Originally Posted by RustyNail

when a poker site has a tourney a player should get a random number and keep that number till the tourney is over. No names to worry about, no data mining, nothing to apologize for - you know what i'm saying?

If this ever happened there would be people with 10 accounts in each tourney and nobody would have a clue because they would simply be a number. Screen names are very important. Its your identity. People arent in live tournies with bags over their face so you cant see who it is.
Maybe its just me, but everytime I hear about a big named player doing this, it just makes me question whether all of the success they had was really them on one account or if they were cheating the whole time. Not sure why he only gets a 6 month ban, when somebody like Imper1um simply played on another account (didnt have multiple himself) and gets lifetime banned. Its nice they punish these people, but the punishment should be the same for everyone.

One number per IP address or computer. People already can play multiple accounts under different screen names. At least a random # would keep people from creating new accounts to disguise themsleves, sort of cutting down on the problem.

 

Originally Posted by EddieO

Its amazing he can't admit that he was stealing EV from his oppononets putting them at a distinct disadvantage hiding his identity. Here I am paying cardrunners hoping to build up enough of a rolll and skill to at one point play in the games the owner is fleecing. 25k is about 1 buyin for months of fleecing, seems fair. And he only came out with this because 2+2 exposed him - this wasn't heart fealt - its damage control after brian got caught cheating other players out of their money....nothing else.

This. I can't believe this thread has so few replies, I thought people would be interested in this. I mean I can't believe that someone would be so insecure that he didn't want people to know that he was "only" playing 50/100 PLO.

Violating TOS isnt the purpose of this thread. Gaining an advantage by being anonymous is the purpose of this thread. Its very important to know who you are playing against when making a decision in poker as to what you should do. I dont want it randomized to erase incentive to not violate TOS.

 

Originally Posted by bluefin

 

Originally Posted by MarkFSU1

Its very important to know who youre playing against. The whole reason they disguise themselves is because they gain an edge.

If you randomize names in each tourney, then the incentive is gone to disguise yourself and violate TOS

maybe as a compromise, you could randomize your nickname for the tourney, but afterward it would say like:

HtotheIzzo (the wa®den)

that way datamining would still work and you could still make an effort to identify multiaccounters

Not surprised.. Everyone does it.. It doesnt stop it never will. Its a non issue because there isnt a thing anyone can do about it.

wasn't this a common practice for him to get action before the whole tos biz? like 06ish

 

Originally Posted by dpottz

 

Originally Posted by bluefin

 

Originally Posted by MarkFSU1

Its very important to know who youre playing against. The whole reason they disguise themselves is because they gain an edge.

If you randomize names in each tourney, then the incentive is gone to disguise yourself and violate TOS

maybe as a compromise, you could randomize your nickname for the tourney, but afterward it would say like:

HtotheIzzo (the wa®den)

that way datamining would still work and you could still make an effort to identify multiaccounters

F datamining.