multiaccounting tip of collusion iceberg ?

[bustedromo]

One aspect of just-banned multi-accounters on Stars which I'm not sure anyone has touched on yet:

I've long been suspicious of collusion amongst various top players. Could certain sets of players who know each other all nabbed for multi-accounting be evidence of an even larger crime ?

Works like this: A group of players collude in highly fluid manner. It's not about the same 2 or 3 players always sitting at the same table together. It's about jumping around to tables where one of your group is sitting, waiting for the right setup, hitting it, waiting a bit and then one of you leaving.

If a group is colluding in this manner and it's going well, greed might lead to sharing accounts. If group members are unavailable for any reason (sleep, sick, out), other members have the ability to log-in using their accounts and (1) put their money to work (2) distract suspicion by not overly concentrating their collusive activities on a single account.

Additionally, the $ variance of the accounts could lead to certain accounts quite robusto, others less robusto. Long-term you need to consistently bring the less robusto accounts up to snuff so they can jump into the most games.

Moving $ around with withdrawal/deposit is slow and tedious. Player-to-player transfers are probably the most heavily monitored by the poker sites. Overall, the best balance of speed and stealth is to chip dump from the more robust accounts into the less robust accounts.

I'm sure there are other reasons why members of a colluding group would want to share accounts.

[btmagnetw]

do you have a magazine i can subscribe to?

[NickyC]

I dunno. All I care about is who the *&%^ threw the doomswitch on me last night.

[ShipitFMA]

*Cues exciting implications photo*

[Raised2Win]

I think the biggest reason for sharing accounts is that a top player can play with someone else's screenname and be anonymous agains his regular opponents. Very useful in headsup games.

Blatant colluding is something I dont think happens too much in highstake games, but thats just what I think