Re: Sites should take these steps immediately...
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Odoyle, I agree with the meaning behind your suggestions 100%, but the practical implications of implementing these type of things are not small issues.
1. IP restrictions on MTT's aren't as easy as it looks. Sure, from a software standpoint, it can be implemented, as most of the sites do this already for STT's and ring games, but look at the impact it has on those playing behind bridgeheads on campuses, dorms, apartment complexes, and even regional AOL dial-up bridgeheads.
Do you really want to restrict the amount of eligible students from WVU to 1 person in each MTT? Or, for example, if an AOL users in upper manhattan dials in an signs up for the MTT, then his external bridgehead IP (the one party sees) prohibits any access to that MTT for the other 60,000 AOL users on the island.
The other stuff I agree with and could be practically applied as far as I am aware.
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I think this is absolutely correct.
Whilst Party prevent accounts associated by Computer ID, playing from the same IP, and who knows what else in Ring games and SNGs, for the reasons in the above post how can they possibly apply this to MTT?
It is unreasonable to expect any Poker site to have preventative measures to catch all kinds of cheating, because a cheat can always go to any length to hide his identity and location.
Sure they COULD take some more steps, but these would only prevent genuine players from playing too.
If they did put the IP interlock on, I can imagine the scene on the PPMV cruise on Sunday, when the numerous passengers crouched over their laptops find out that only one of them can enter the big game, because they are all sharing the same IP.
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