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Originally Posted by ix.spider.uk
TBH the amount of money involved does make a difference. In a court of law (and life in general) an individual who stole $5 would be treated and punished in a completely different way to someone who stole $5,000,000.
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Originally Posted by SleightOfJam
It makes a lot of sense. A lot of the 'multi accounts' in the micros are complete donks who forget their passwords, turn 18 so they can stop using mommys name, or flat out believe their account is cursed with bad luck and need a new one and don't even realize they are breaking any rules in doing so.
It's definitely not ethical either way but to say a high stakes player multi accounting with a ton of reads and edge for 5 figure pots is the same as joe average that hasn't played poker in a while and forgets his password or the email he signed up with is absurd.
I wasn't referring to some random microstakes guy with $5 in his account making a new one. Where did the microstakes thing even come from? I specifically said mid stakes. The amount of money involved in mid stakes is not $5 and with respect to the court of law comment, stealing at those stakes would result in the same punishment as stealing at the nosebleeds if such a scenario could ever occur.
Also I commented on this earlier (maybe in a diff MA thread), but I already agreed that the majority of MAing probably is in fact just random people not doing it for any sort of edge. Which is why I said confiscating account balances and banning people outright is a really bad idea. Which is almost certainly why sites don't do it.
The point is that it doesn't make sense to argue some special treatment for HS players. Either the rules and punishments are changed and enforced across the board, or the status quo should remain.