Has anyone ever had any problems with you having an account, and your spouse having a separate account?

Yes.

Care to expand on that?

I've never had a problem on either Stars or Tilt with this in over 2 years, have made deposits/withdrawals etc. on both accounts with no issues.

My Gf has an account. No issues. On some sites you'll be prevented from playing at the same tables.

You'll need independent payment processors but that is about it.

Its a rather long story and chain of events, but basicially, I opened an account for my wife, I Played with her and helped her learn poker (she has never played before this), she won the weekly TLB her very first week on stars, I thought this rather odd at the time, since I had about an 8 month run of no wins at any level, so I questioned it, admitted that I helped her play, which at the time, stars had no problem with. So I then 'helped' teach other family members how to play on their own accounts. Again, they all did very well the first days or weeks of playing. I still on my account could not win a $1 sit n go. So I posted about it.

Stars security called me about the posts and what I said, they also closed my wifes account , and said she can play on my account. Now, its really not allowed to play anyone else's account, And that they were making this exception for her because of my admitting to sitting and helping her play. Im still not understanding as to why, it is OK for her to play my account, yet I was warned to not play hers?. Anyway, you asked.

No problems here and there shouldn't be any because it is ok to do

Hello Mike,

Thanks again for the time at the telephone. As I explained, please reply
to this email acknowledging the consequences of any future infraction to
our multiple account policy.

In simple terms, just keep using none but your own 'cigardad' account and
there should be no further problems. With the exception of your wife, it
is also very wise to avoid anyone else play on your account, especially if
that someone else already has a PokerStars account. Like I explained,
therein lies the issue of account sharing. Please visit the following
link for further details (especially in section 4.2):

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/room/tos

Any future infraction to these terms may result in permanent suspension of
the accounts involved. If there is anything else we can help you with,
please do not hesitate to contact us.


Regards,

Andres S.
PokerStars Game Security &
Multiple Accounts Specialist

To Andre's credit, he was very friendly, and spent a lot of time talking to me about my concerns, and trying to convince me, that I am just UL when I play on my own account, and must be lucky on others and in live poker. So I now just caulk it up to 'variance', and continue to lose my butt as cigardad for what is almost a year str8 on this current run, But at least I understand that its me, and something I must do on that one account, for that, I must thank Andre, and pokerstars for convincing me that there is no way it is not a fair shuffle and the same for all players.

Now, I just make up the loses playing live, and getting loans from my winning family members who never played poker till I helped them open an account. Cheers

For what it's worth, here is Ultimate Bet's response:


Thank you for contacting us.

Due to security reasons, at Ultimate Bet we allow a maximum of 1 account per customer, 2 per computer (the accounts must belong to different users) and 3 per household in total.

Also, in order to protect our players, we do not allow username changes. This is because it is the most important way for other players
to recognize you at the tables.

Exceptions will only apply when there is an error upon registration or another extraordinary circumstance.

We will appreciate your understanding on this matter.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you require further assistance or additional information.

Best regards,

Roberto
Ultimate Bet ~ Customer Support

Huh?

A few minutes after setting up an account for my wife, Party phoned to "welcome" her. She did well.

Might have been interesting if she wasn't home...

Anyone think there would be an issue if my account wasn't thru an affiliate buy my wife's is?

My wife signed up from her house before she moved in with me and now we both play from here..FT pretty much everday. Granted we are all most never on at the same time. NP so far cause we dont do anything wrong

No - why do you keep thinking there will be a problem? Is there something else we should know?

the problem is her account was boomswitched and yers is doomswitched

Cuz, when I first started playing there like 5 months ago, I tried to cash out. I had signed up thru an affiliate. They contacted me to let me know that they were closing my account as it was a duplicate account. I had no idea. They gave me the info for my old one. I logged in there. Apparently I had opened an account back in November of 2004, played there for 4 days and cashed out. That was back when I first started playing online and I did play a lot of sites just seeing what each one was like. Apparently FT was one of them. Anyway, they closed my new one probably because is had rb, and my old one didn't...that upset me a bit, but they wouldn't budge. So...they seem pretty stricted with this stuff.

I always chuckle a little when I see these threads about "spouse" accounts hehe

OK but that a different argument. You can only have 1 account. You opened 2 and they made you close 1. No problems there , that is their rules. But your spouse is a seperate entity and can have a seperate account. You can both use the same IP address, just dont sit at the same table. You should have no problems.

This is an awesome title. Look out multiaccounters - Andre is coming for you.

That is some crime, seriously