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Joined: Jun '08
Location: Canada
Age: 50 (M)
Posts: 121
I haven't played on a Boss Media skin in quite some time. Today I logged into Paradise Poker to see what was available and there was a 100 euro freeroll registering. At the start of the tournament I took a look at the tournament roster and found at least FORTY TWO (42) players with multiple accounts, some with as many a six. This represents 146 of the 1029 registered players or more than 14% of the field. Is this kind of blatant cheating and criminalism the norm on Boss Media?
Joined: Nov '07
Location: Belgium
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 1289
Ur allowed to have 3 BOSS media skins regged on ur desktop, however there is a program to change it in how much U can. I can't remember the name. And no BOSS is not the worst online. U don't even let people choose with a positive anwser. Besides if ur starting to cashout or often, then they will catch U anyway. And this I know for a fact since I advice on the sideline for a Boss Media Skin. And Ur talking about freerolls, not even a decent game.
Joined: Mar '08
Location: Denmark
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 134
Posted by RIPStuNov22: I haven't played on a Boss Media skin in quite some time. Today I logged into Paradise Poker to see what was available and there was a 100 euro freeroll registering. At the start of the tournament I took a look at the tournament roster and found at least FORTY TWO (42) players with multiple accounts, some with as many a six. This represents 146 of the 1029 registered players or more than 14% of the field. Is this kind of blatant cheating and criminalism the norm on Boss Media?
Boos media is one of the best networks out there tbh.
Would be nice with some more options in that pole.
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Australia
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 6483
I've checked out the freeroll entrants names on a few different (major) sites and honestly, seeing names that would appear to be pretty shameless double accounts seems common across the board (on freerolls at least)
I guess if it really bothers you, you could report the names, they'd probably get banned, chances are they will anyway..
I can see having multiple accounts on a network for several reasons, but playing on all of those at the same time is a down side or plus. Depending on where you are standing.
Joined: Nov '08
Location: Malaysia
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 151
well... my opinion is just to stick with famous big poker websites like full tilt poker and poker stars and stuff... at least the points and players there are alot more valuable and you normally don't have as much problem with it ^^
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Belgium
Age: 64 (M)
Posts: 751
in my opinion there are a lot of sites that have this problem , the only thing is that the moment someone who has multiple accounts wants to whitdraw he will have some problems to get his money if he will have it at all !!!
Joined: Oct '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 86
Freerolls or not, if they've got multiple accounts they can use them at other touneys and/or cash games surely. In that case it's a big deal. What would be more interesting is to the know what the stats are for all sites, not just one.
Joined: Jun '08
Location: Canada
Age: 50 (M)
Posts: 121
Posted by MANUEDO: Are your really sure to have found multiple accounts ?
Well...can't use last night's game as an example anymore because the lobby is not listed any more, but looking at this mornings 75e freeroll I see things like:
Joined: Jun '08
Location: Canada
Age: 50 (M)
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Well...I spent the time and actually took a look and made a list, which will now be sent to all the Boss Media sites as well as the parent company. Maybe they might actually do something (yeah...right)
3000 entrants...300 suspicious names.
...and I even found one with NINE accounts
These people have so much time to spare to open, log in, register and close each boss media skin just to get each of their accounts registered in the same tournament?
Considering the sites have IP address checkers, this would mean that these people would also have to have multiple, fairly decent computers complete with static IP addresses or IP modifying software.
If they can afford that kind of setup, why are they bothering with a freeroll? Is it that the sites really do only care about the high stakes players and unless one of them threaten to pull support, the site won't act so the cheaters stick with the freerolls to try and stay under the radar?
Now that I think about it...this does partially explain the jacka**es who push every hand right from the get go...they have 8 more accounts registered so they can just switch when they lose.
Joined: Aug '09
Location: Chile
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 1353
Posted by RIPStuNov22:
Posted by MANUEDO: Are your really sure to have found multiple accounts ?
Well...can't use last night's game as an example anymore because the lobby is not listed any more, but looking at this mornings 75e freeroll I see things like:
Wow pretty sick. This say enough to make me a bad impression of Boss Media. But what I can't understand is how these people are so obvious when they make multi account.
Joined: Nov '07
Location: Belgium
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 1289
Posted by RIPStuNov22:
Posted by Flangel: They get caught, when they cash out
Or they chip dump to someone who has an account that they aren't cheating with, like the Bugarian/Hungarian cheating teams do
Yea but they get caught anyway. I Do sideanalisys for a BOSS media room , including investigating cases regarding chipdumping. U wud be surprised how many accounts are getting closed anyway.
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Australia
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 6483
honestly, check out freerolls on FTP etc (where it's only one site on network) and you'll see the same thing.
Not hard to change an IP addres (via web proxy, or otherwise)
What get's me, is why people pick nicknames that are so similar.
But this isn't just BOSS MEDIA, you'll see this is many major freerolls, go into FTP lobby now, open a freeroll and sort by name
But I don't think these people really get away with much (generally, specially not the ones to dumb to even use a different nick). I imagine they get busted on cashout or busted when they try in a RING game or real $ tourney.
