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Originally Posted by VP$IP
He was not caught (initially) by technical methods.
Some Mexican players were not happy with the "professional gringos" who "live just a couple of weeks in Mexico have been chosen to qualify for the tournament in front" Mexico TLB Qualifier. ricestud was among those specifically named, and a complaint was filed with Stars in August 2011
Source?
Ricestud played in Mexico pre black friday. Not just tourist areas either, he speaks spanish and travels into the cities, border towns, mountain areas, etc. He's far from some post black friday relocating player.
Not to mention that if Mexico banned online poker and the USA allowed it, Mexican players would probably be moving to the USA for at least a few weeks (as long as they possibly could in their individual situations) to keep grinding their livelihood. Pretty crappy if they reported a player because he's from another country. We're poker players and OUR governments have been screwing with a game they don't really understand for years. Maybe not the Mexican government, but it's hardly the US government that is screwing things up here. France, Belgium, Germany to name just a few.
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Originally Posted by bs_jayhawk
1. ricestud's use of vpn to circumvent anti-U.S. policy was immoral
2. pokerstars' 5 month delay in resolving the matter was immoral
anyone questioning 2 would be wrong. i think 1. is very debatable though. it may violate TOS to use a vpn, but it isn't inherently unethical by any means.
people being rude to ricestud are ignorant and the punishment in this case doesn't fit the crime.
If you replaced immoral with "knowingly against the rules of the site/country" that's fine.
Immoral is kind of a stretch though. Would you trust Ricestud less because of his actions? Do you consider him any lesser of a person? Do you think what he did was a bad thing? I think the people that slipped the loosely worded laws into unrelated legislation years ago that is now being aggressively interpreted in order to seize large sums of money is wrong and immoral. That's my opinion though.