[stealthmunk]

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IMO the shady stuff that happens in online poker will never stop. It's well known that many of the high-stakes cash guys change accounts or screen names to misrepresent their identities, thus creating more (unwanted from opponents' perspectives) action for themselves. Further, many of us at MTTc stake people, who if they get deep in large MTTs, may essentially tell the stakee exactly what to do in every situation, so that while we are not directly clicking the mouse or typing in bet sizes, we are basically playing the tournament.

No disrespect at all meant to Mlagoo, but certainly some of you MTT guys at the house with far greater track records than Mlagoo were sweating and giving advice. I obviously don't know to what measure or extent this happened, and am not even necessarily saying its wrong or that I disagree with it, but it definitely violates the "1 person to a hand" rule.

I think multiaccounting MTTs is wrong, and I've never done and will never do it, but IMO its all on a continuum of shadiness that occurs everyday in the online poker world.

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I seriously go back and forth in my head each day about the ethics behind this. Especially when my stakee is essentially paying to be coached by me, and thus doesn't have a very big % at all.

IMO, the shady [censored] in online poker will never end. Sheets/bax/timex staking infinite idiots is no different than multiaccounting. Does it matter if you get 50% or 100% if you are creating a huge chunk of the 109r field? Obviously I think actually physically playing 2 accounts is unethical and scummy, but the grey area after that is just something that is accepted because its online poker. There will never be one player to a hand, and there will always be a threat that you don't know if you are playing against a superstar.