Intentionally breaking the rules in order to be able to play in games that are unavailable for you due to rules and legal restrictions in your current circumstances I think is pretty big and unfair advantage. People were banned for such acts on PS in past.

Sneaking a phone into a live stream table, for whatever the initial intended reason might be, and then surreptitiously using it, opens up the possibility of colluding with another player, or players, if someone else has also sneaked their phone in too.

On the issue of playing online from a non-authorised country, not only is it breaking the rules, it is also creating a higher "hourly" for a winning player who is doing it, compared to players who aren't, because you are reducing the ratio of travel and accommodation expenses to total buy ins.

While one could argue that it is a distraction while playing a live game, you could also argue the opposite, that it breaks up the monotony of playing a relatively slow live game.

And in the case we are discussing, Joni Jouhkimainen said that EEE is one of the best multi-tablers in the world. So playing 1 live comp and 1 online comp is not exactly difficult for him.

Good post, he broke some rules but cheating = gaining unfair advantage and that wasn't the case here.

One thing I really don't understand is, once you make day 3 of the PLO, why on earth travel to Czech? Surely any long time pro knows that playing in a juristriction with seperate license has a big risk of ban+funds taken? Why not just play 3 in Finland and skip the 25k, and fly out to Czech a day later? Was he really not aware of the risk?

If the person in your example showed they were using the phone to play on Pokerstars, 99% of the time no one at the table would care.

I've seen plenty of people doing this in live tournaments and cash games.

He also got 8th place on the final table with the no phones rule.

I doubt anyone at the final table, let alone the rest of the tournament, would care whatsoever.

Triton allow phones to be used to be used throughout tournaments, including all of the streamed tables.

All of the players seem very happy about it.

Well that's fine if they want to do it that way, I personally don't think it's a good idea.

And you don't actually know if the players are happy with it, without asking them.

I think if it was explained to the business people (whales) how the pros can and probably do use this to their advantage, that the business people would not be happy about it.

It is way more likely that the pros are using the easy access to the stream to help them than the whales are.

Aside from the multiple player interviews where they state how great it is to use the Triton app during the tournaments.

By the way, Triton is ran/hosted by recreational players.

They are commenting on how the app is great because it gives live chip counts so you don't have to count/work out other players stacks when determining bet sizing or thinking about your response to a bet faced.

I very much doubt that they are praising the fact that when they don't show a bluff that everyone finds out it's a bluff 30 minutes later.

And as I alluded to, the whales are probably not sophisticated enough to think about how it is almost certainly disadvantaging them.

Yes agreed, it is a series created by recs/whales with recs and whales largely in mind. But this still doesn't mean that easy viewing access on a 30 min delay for players is a good idea.

Guys, the arguments about him not gaining an advantage by it are beside the point. He's basically just demonstrated that someone can sit there with an electronic device and not bed noticed. I am almost 100% certain this is going to change how the circuit handles the live events and that there will also be a rather severe punishment for him.

Maybe they shouldn’t force people to sit at the feature table if they don’t want to? They’re double dipping by making players play at these tables with 0 advantage.