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01-16-08, 05:12 PM
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one of the things i love about starting threads is seeing where they go. It is why I like it here. 2+2 all you get is playground mentality, but here you get good stuff.
But I got to say WTF guys? Yes, it might be fun to have a little mental masturbation getting esoteric over the nature and definition of cheating, but in this case i think it only serves to obfuscate a very important issue to all of us. We are truly at a crossroads with online poker in our country and issues of cheating can be used to entrench voters and legislators against online poker when they are needed to actually change the law. I was hoping the WTO would do it for us, but we can't be sure of that. So please, start a thread about cheating in sport and what is and isn't cheating, hell I would like to contribute to that discussion, but lets keep this one relevant to the OP. |
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01-16-08, 05:24 PM
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While I don't disagree with you. we all have to be cognizant of the fact that where there are large sums of money up for grabs, there will be people willing to push the envelope to get them. It is crucial that the online sites get out front and let their customers (and by way of them, the legislators) know that they are taking all appropriate steps to make it harder to circumvent the rules. They have much more at risk than we do.
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01-16-08, 07:32 PM
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I think "cheating" and "rule breaking" are not specific enough here. The word that comes to mind is unethical.
What multi-accounters are doing is unethical. The existence of a penalty system in a sport addresses (seems to make the statement that...) doing certain things that are wrong, but not necessarily unethical. i.e. 5 for fighting in hockey, timeout for swearing at the WSOP. "Underhanded" starts to touch on it. That which is concealed and unseen is an unethical effort. Emery boards being used by pitchers comes to mind. Shifting the focus just to poker, multi-accounting, chip dumping, blah blah blah, all of these examples seem unethical, and worthy of severe penaly. (like poker sites sharing names of known multi-accounters. Yeh, that would be sweet).
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01-16-08, 08:43 PM
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Ob what?
 Ok, I obviously can't get read this thread anymore 
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