ZeeJustin the next to get caught multi accounting Party MTTs

[El Diablo]

All,

When evaluating situations like this, I think it's important to use logical thinking to attempt to determine the intent behind these actions to the best of our ability. I agree that all cheaters should be punished harshly, but I also believe that the intent of one's actions should be taken into account to get a proper context of what's going on.

When someone puts two entries into a tournament, it is believable that they just wanted two shots and effectively just wanted to increase their earn in terms of number of tourneys/time they are able to play. Someone like this may even have a plan (sitting out or whatever) for the unlikely situation in which they end up at the same table with both accounts. The more infrequently this is done and the more rare (ie: only for special $1k buyin tournaments or whatever that only come by once in a while) the event is, the more likely their intent is benign (not that that excuses their actions).

On the flip side, someone who puts SIX HORSES into tournaments in a planned, ongoing manner is far more likely to be doing this with the intent of taking advantage of having multiple accounts at the same table and exploiting every benefit this provides. When this person finds himself at the same table, yet still decides to play on with both accounts, and even for future occurrences, does not make a plan of sitting out (or reducing horses so this is far less likely to happen again), then we must consider how reasonable it is that this person took this action for any reason other than cheating to the fullest extent. Looking at this specific case, the rationalizations that ZJ uses in his post (I did nothing wrong, everyone does it, it's not that big an advantage, Party is screwing me over, anyone would do this for the easy money, etc.) lend even more support to the possibility of what many of us would consider very serious premeditated cheating.

Yes, it is possible that ZJ just wanted more entries into tournaments than he was able to play sequentially. But there is a lot of evidence pointing to him planning a strategy with which to cheat online MTTs in any and every way possible. Knowing this, I find it very likely that his actions went far beyond simple multi-accounting.