Brian Townsend cought/admitted Multi Accounting

[Fumseck]

Not sure if this was discussed earlier or not

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

FWIW I don't see anything truly wrong here, but he was stupid to do it with all that is going on for him in the poker world...

[Cript]

Yeah,

I've always had differing opinions in stuff like this. I don't see the problem with someone having multiple accounts. The problem for me is when they play under someone else's like Neverwin used to. For instance, a hyper tag style might work for one person at the high limits but not another and other players take notes accordingly. If the hyper tag starts playing under a different users account who most note to be passive, it becomes something of an angle shoot.

[dankimball]

from my understanding he had more than 1 account but did not play at the same tables right? just used the diff accounts to hide who he was???...i am kinda in between on this 1. its hard for me to get too upset over this 1.

[Primitive]

Lots of Highrollers have multiple accounts and plays each others accounts (for anonymity). Cant be controlled so why bother.

[Cript]

[Taardvark]

This kind of feels like the equivalent of wearing a disguise into a brick and mortal card room. I don't think he was ethically out of bounds but online card rooms have very clear terms of service and he violated those terms. That part of it is pretty black and white to me. Pretty foolish thing to do on FT especially.

[Scully]

I read about this on =4 a couple of weeks back, and some of the guys there wanted Townsend hung, drawn and quartered and paraded through the streets (unusual overreaction for =4).

I undertand that its against the Ts & Cs, and so is therefore 'wrong'. But IMO it's hardly the worst breach of the rules as long as you're using one account at a time. My view is possibly tainted by the fact that such scurrilous anonymity won't affect me as the player pool I play against is so vast so I'm not really that bothered.

Also, is it any different from me playing as one name on Titan and another on Blue Square? Same network, same opponents, same PT stats on said opponents, only they don't know I'm the guy they've got 1000 hands on under a different name.

I guess the only issue is that only a select few get away with doing this

[evil_roy]

Cheating and dishonesty in gambling - who'd have thought it?