Impact of multi-accounting crackdown continues to spread
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The multi-accounting crackdown started this week by major online poker rooms PokerStars and Full Tilt continues to have a major impact on the pokernet today, as more accounts are being locked and the drama concerning connections between accounts continues to unfold.
Yesterday, news broke that due to the use of multiple accounts at non-simultaneous points, well known high-stakes limit player Dustin ‘Neverwin’ Wolff had been banned from PokerStars, and a number of accounts associated with his via transfers and IP addresses had also been frozen. Today brings new reports of trouble accounts, this time focused more in the tournament arena.
At the middle of some of the latest drama - JJProdigy, a name familiar to anyone who has kept up with online poker for the last year or so. Banned for the practice of playing multiple accounts simultaneously in the same tournament by several sites last year, JJ continued to coach and back several players, and now it appears, according to reports from PokerKing and forum scuttlebutt, that JJ may have been doing more than coaching on the accounts of a few well-know players - speculation is that he has actually been playing parts or all of major tournaments through a number of borrowed and dummy accounts.
These allegations raise more serious questions than the practices that got Neverwin banned from PokerStars. This development also suggests that we may just be seeing the tip of a very ugly iceberg lurking under the surface of online poker. Expect to see more news and scandal pour out over the weeks to come as the big rooms bring down the hammer on a community that may have become a little too tight knit for the good of the game.
