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Originally Posted by Caliburn
This does not in any way help to not get cheated. It does however helps to confirm it quicker. Thats all, and thats why it might be a OK idea to pw share, you can see you got scammed quicker.
On the other hand some might argue that sharing passwords shows that the horse can be trusted more, since he is willing to give you access. But this is also something i find funny, i mean, if the horse wanted to scamm you, he would just OK everything then change pw after you transferd the cash.
What im saying is, the sharing PW is just not important. The most important thing for a horse is references/vouches i think.
Just, to clarify, I am the would-be backer in this case.
And yes, I fully understand that if the other guy wanted to cheat me, it would be no problem for him.
The reason why I want to have access to the account is of course only if I for various start to be suspicious about his play.
eg. The account balance should be $xxx, but I can only make sure he doesn't use the stake money to play other games, if I can check that myself.
Another instance is, if for some reason the staking agreement is about to be terminated, by my decision (lost trust in stakee, feeling he is not serious, etc). That would give me a chance to transfer my part of the balance to my account (stake+possible part of winnings), if I was afraid the stakee would not want to do that (maybe angry about the being terminated), and wanted to screw me. Would that be unethical?
The final thing is, the staking agreements in question would be for low buyin MTT-SNG (like $3.40 180-player on Stars). So all things being equal, if they need a stake for that, they do not have any money in their account allready.