[LearnedfromTV]

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The issue really isn't dumping. I'm confident that most people who entered tournies on multiple accounts don't do it with the hope or intention of meeting up and dumping chips. They just want multiple shots at the title.

It's the act of entering more than 1 account in a tourney that's cheating, and any chip dumping or altered-play that ensues is just incidental.

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I think this is important. The people who are arguing that entering twice is by itself unethical are distracting from the issue. The ethics part of this debate is that one person can not fairly have two seats at one table. The result of this possibility is that Party has to make a rule banning multiaccounting. The debate shouldn't be about EV, adding money to the prize pool, or the fact that *most* of the time, multiaccounting is the equivalent is adding another independent player. If a multiaccounter never was at the same table with himself, there would not be a fundamentally unfair situation. Arguing that there is or focusing on this point at all allows the people defending the practice in general to focus their argument away from the real issue. This is made worse by the fact that a lot of the people making the anti-multiaccounting side of this argument have a misguided understanding of EV (taking a coin flip is *not* any better because you have extra accounts!).


The real issue is that multiaccounting has to be against the rules because there is a possibility of a player having a seat at the same table with himself. Period. It does not matter how slim the possibility is because this *ever* happening fundamentally compomises the game. There is no way to allow a person to enter multiple accounts without retaining this possiblity, so there is no alternative but to ban multi-accounting. It doesn't matter how rare the chipdumping/colluding opportunities are.