Stars catches a bot and it's........my mom

[pudley4]

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I think Teddy is beyond reproach here. I mean, seriously, what would he have to gain from making this up? Nothing comes to mind. What would he have to lose? A hell of a lot of respect that he has built up amongst the better-informed posters at 2+2. The fact no-one at pokerstars is giving HH or any info about this alleged 43-hour marathon session, I'm on Teddy's side.

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You are discounting 2 things. First the high probability this is all an elaborate joke. And the second that ZJ was highly regarded here as well before his ignominious fall from grace.

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The difference is that teddy voluntarily came here to give us information that NO ONE HERE WOULD HAVE EVER FOUND OUT! If Stars had come here and said "We closed the account of teddy's mom because she was using a bot", and then teddy came back with this story, it's much much more likely that there was a bot involved. But because he came here and put out information that would have remained private indefinitely, it's much more likely that he's telling the truth.

Also, if he was testing a bot, and "his mom's" PS account got closed, what would posting here do for him? No one here would have ever known that he even had another account, much less that he was testing a bot and got caught. What does he gain by doing this? If PS reopens the account, they're sure to watch it more closely, so he'll be less likely to be able to test his bot on it. If all he needed was a dummy account, it's trivially easy to just create another one.

Honestly it's appalling to see the lack of logic many people are showing here. Although it's encouraging that even among the smarter part of the population there are so many who are still clueless.