Require and ID for all accounts (anything provided by a govt agency with a picture). Want your cash = must have an ID on file and your check is sent registered mail.

It wont stop all multi-acocunting but it put a big dent in it.

or just stop allowing P2P transfers...

dont really think thatll do much at all, actually. but it definitely has potential to be your best idea ever.

 

Originally Posted by Ozzie

dont really think thatll do much at all, actually. but it definitely has potential to be your best idea ever.

Thats not setting the bar very high.....lol

Deposit your own money, and win or lose your own money. I don't like it either, but 90% of the cheating (rule breaking - whatever you want to call it) would be stopped when they stop P2P transfers.

Of the major US Sites, which site has really no reported issues with MA'ing, cheating and scamming? Bodog.

Of the major US sites, which site does not allow P2P transfers? Bodog.

You may not like their software, game selection or deposit/cashout options. But their poker site is the safest and most honest game out there.

 

Originally Posted by mhoddi

 

Originally Posted by SpankyHamm

Deposit your own money, and win or lose your own money. I don't like it either, but 90% of the cheating (rule breaking - whatever you want to call it) would be stopped when they stop P2P transfers.

Of the major US Sites, which site has really no reported issues with MA'ing, cheating and scamming? Bodog.

Of the major US sites, which site does not allow P2P transfers? Bodog.

You may not like their software, game selection or deposit/cashout options. But their poker site is the safest and most honest game out there.

Perhaps you don't hear about MA'ing on bodog because 1) they don't have the customer support to track it (if they care at all) and they're more worried about getting their $150 fee per $1000 check so their checks don't bounce. 2) banning one of their <100 regulars they have left is bad business

Nah - I don't think so.

But it's OK to just come out and say that you don't want to lose P2P transfers. But why do you think that sites like NetTeller were closed in the US and why banks are scared to get involved with poker sites. It's because NetTeller was basically a third party P2P vehicle, and Congress realized that this type of vehicle is something that can be used to launder money.

Would you agree that if P2P transfers were not available, that there would be fewer instances of cheating/rule breaking? I know that P2P transfers are the life blood of backers. But isn't that more of a convenience? If people really wanted to - they could send each other bank transfers (or checks, cash, food stamps - whatever) and deposit the backing money from their own bank into the sites. Yes it would be slower - but everyone would have a little more protection.

 

Originally Posted by SofaKingCewl

Fingerprint login, but that won't happen anytime soon i'm afraid.

fingerprint login will not stop ma'ers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAfAVGES-Yc

Nah - I don't think so.

But it's OK to just come out and say that you don't want to lose P2P transfers.

 

lol? Well yeah, like 99% of players I don't want to lose P2P transfers because all of online poker would look like it is now on bodog minus the overlays... ridiculously small fields with poor payouts. The US needs P2P's because it's difficult to even deposit these days. If you simply wanted me to "just come out and say I don't want to lose P2P's", then here you go, but that had nothing to do with my point. Your response to mine was just "Nah, I don't think so". lol, ok. So because we've never heard of 1 MAing instance on bodog means that nobody has ever done it. Righttttttttt. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that they're not a major US site and could care less about it at this point. Oh right I forgot, 'you don't think so'.

SFpWnt

well my point is, would you rather have online poker the way it is now where a few people cheat (and eventually get caught), or would you rather have the entire industry look like bodog, and eventually people find a new way to cheat?

The industry is on a slippery slope. I think we all agree that if/when the government backs off on online poker that things will get easier. But I don't think that the government will back off while there is the perception that the industry cannot self regulate. And that people are using P2P transfers to (possibly) launder money and (likely) using this to perpetuate frauds- well - then something has to change with that system.

Limit P2P transfers. Put additional security around transfers and withdrawals. The status quo is not working.

ROFL. Maybe youve heard of this little piece of software, its been around for 15 (or more?) years, its called Photoshop. And there are plenty of powerful alternatives to this program too. Dream on, stop sucking, and then maybe you can beat these guys at the tables.

cause online poker has so many regulations