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Originally Posted by .isolated
Standard. Fairly sure that Stars' stance on this has always been that they can't enforce the rule so I don't believe it's even against ToS.
Here you go.
No - This post above is not accurate.
Lee Jones made some posts to that effect more than ten years ago, but since the early 2010s, PokerStars has consistently required that each account is played by only one player, and that each player may only play on one account.
Indeed, PokerStars - such as in the email that was posted above, say that they "do prohibit deliberate paid services where the intent is very different. Such a service is materially and fundamentally different from ad hoc and opportunistic arrangements whereby one player might have a friend standing behind him and providing advice. Such a service would also be different to coaching services offering instruction based upon hands and tournaments that have already taken place. PokerStars allows coaching after-the-fact, but does not permit ongoing and planned real-time paid services."
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Originally Posted by TreadLightly
Not against stars rules as already mentioned since they cannot enforce it unless someone is literally logging into your account from another IP / across the world on break. If its through teamviewer or skype and telling you everything to do it is 'fair' game.
That's not true at all.
I recognise that it is a hard rule to enforce, and it is difficult to prove a breach.
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They explained it years ago when one of the stars pros who twitch stream had a friend discussing how to play hands (cannot recall who did it first to start controversy) I believe.
Look at the quoted email from the Twitter, which also says:
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Of course, there is no way to control where that player might get advice from; if they have a book in front of them that details how to play a hand in a particular way, we do not prohibit that. Similarly, if they have someone by their side (or on the phone or whatever) giving them advice as part of some unplanned, ad-hoc, arrangement, this is not against our rules.
We certainly are not going to prohibit a friend watching and providing some casual advice at home."
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Originally Posted by madlex
Ghosting has always been accepted by Stars and has happened in way bigger tournaments than that one, including WCOOP main event FTs.
No, it hasn't.