Pokerstars dorsnt accept anything. Id imagine a really good vpn isnt that easy to detect.

That being said if an irish semi fish starts playing sky stakes out if nowhere id expect them to review such an account in depth and do their ****ing due diligence.

Which once again (same with teh russian botring) didnt seem to happen fast enuff/at all

fixed.
oh, don't worry! he's monitoring this thread closely.

So bad.

Thanks for posting, BERRI.

lol everyone in poker is shady. Even joeingram1 is. He was aware of what was going on for a while and let a lot of people get screwed over just like berrisweet did. Pretty clear just about nobody in poker can be trusted.

I mean it's about the EV it cost you not the actual results. for example you could have done something different thinking it was someone else which by chance gained you money (EV and money being not mutually exclusive here). not defending but think in these spots people say the full amount too much and it tends to be an exaggeration.

Receipts?

If you're going to make slanderous allegations like this you should back it up with some proof.

Joey can't be help responsible for every one of his guests actions. This happened with starsregproblems and now hastings. How exactly is it his fault?

Wait, so we not yet allowed to speculate if Jason Mercier was in the know on this?

It is blatantly obvious that he was.

Question for Jason Mercier, do you think it was OK for you to be privy to the real identity of Noel Hayes while others seated at the same game as you were not?

Totally different scenario, agree posting receipts tho

Lol at lolling. Also pretty weird to do a podcast and talk about improving at mixed games etc when you're playing under a different account trough vpn

Well I for one find it very funny all of hastings fanboys are so quiet right now. He cheated ones again and now he won't get away with it. All the players that have lost money playing against him, should get every penny back from Hastings. On top of that, I hope the big bad USA goes after him aswel, as he did play online poker in the USA which is illegal and on an account that wasn't his.

This is correct and its difficult/impossible to rectify.

IE. noelhayes account opens, diff reg 3 bets. You may have the opinion noel opens too wide so the reg is 3betting wider and therefor decide to call/4bet a hand diff than normal.

Or you may have the opinion the noelhayes account opens too tight so you give more respect to the regs 3 bet of his already tight range.

Or Noelhayes cbets and you think he cbets too wide so bluff raise. Or another reg raises his cbet and you decide he can do this lighter because of that so reraise the other regs raise.

Or he cbets too loose and the opposite blah blah.

Add into the mix the people that wouldn't have even been in the games without thinking the NoelHayes account was some rich guy with no previous highstakes experience and that's why the whole thing becomes a massive mess.

If he hasn't already, Hastings probably getting his money off stars as fast as he can right now.

Makes you wonder how many of the other known guys multi-account and VPN. Also, now how many of his boy's will now continue to defend him and or have his back...? Didn't Brian Townsend get busted for mulch-accounting too?

Maybe Joey Ingram can have him on the podcast again. I assume Joey knows all about VPN'ing and what Hastings was actually doing just by his reaction in that video. Maybe he is also doing it himself?

Oh well. If joey knew his reaction in the video was pretty disrespectful with the players that did not know.

The Stars FAQ on multi-accounting and account-sharing is pretty clear...

...but it must be pretty hard to prove it happened if the action was done via VPN and/or screen-sharing.

Enquiring minds still have a question:


Since Stars doesn't comment publicly on things like this, has anyone tried transferring 2 cents to the NoelHayes account to see if it's been frozen?

I told him I didn't want to know about it if it was him. Obviously a lot of people were talking about it online. There are many other players still very active in the high stakes world who knew way more about it than I did.

I'm not sure what people would expect me to do if I had known for sure.

If the punishment for cheaters were to pay the EV they gained for MA'ing, they would esentially be freerolling the inherent advantages of doing so.

If player A multiaccounts and wins $1000 from player B, what would be the appropriate action from stars if they found out, in your opinion? Handing back the supposed equity that player B lost beacause of the fact that player A was cheating?

He isnt exactly keeping it a secret on his podcasts. There are a ton of (american) vpners on 888/party/ipoker fwiw.

And yet in that vid someone posted ITT they claimed to have 80 people working on detecting cheating.

Da fuq are those 80 people actually doing all day??

All i can say is BH, people you really don't want to upset is very unhappy with you right now. Regardless of what your simple brain can compute this is not only a game but also big business. If you cheat and get caught...well, you pay the price. You're not the only one investing in other players you know.

If only you came on the podcast early in the year you could have gotten some podcast run good in these spots

Junglemans hitman ITT

and we talk of online poker dying mainly cash games and people wonder, its the rake ect ect...

more like its shady ****ing things like this happening, puts people off even moving up. stops alot of guys who would probably play cash games that they win from mtts off from playing, brian ur response is a joke btw .. goodluck to those affected.

So the supposed "nicest guy in poker" is actually a giant douche. What a twist.

Oh the irony when his girlfriend cheats on him soon...