Aliases

[The Baron]

My exgirlfriend had an online poker account. When I was giving her advice (or when I was broke) she would let me play under her alias. She had such a rock tight image I used to be able to get away with murder. In the bigger SnG's everyone knew her ID and no one fancied pots she raised into. It was heaven come the later stages.

I think there is a huge advantage with having more than one alias.

[matt674]

The problem is if you are playing a multi and it takes you an hour to realise player a is really player b you could have lost all your chips by then or lost a chance to win chips.

But by the same token you could have won more chips without realizing because you played the situation differently not knowing - it can work both ways..... all you can do is play your best game with all the known facts at your disposal - if you dont know that player b was player a yesterday then it shouldn't affect your ablilty to still win

Why would you want different names if its not to give you an extra edge to win money.

But does it give you an extra edge? personally i dont think it would do

[tikay]

Well I am surprised nobody from Betfair has come on to refute this.

But here's my little bet.....

It is against the Terms & Conditions on ANY online site to knowingly use different aliases.

And if I am wrong, well IT is wrong.

[Colchester Kev]

Surely this is proof beyond doubt that every time you sit down at an online table, you have to play your cards, not the person... until you have made observations on the ability of the players on THAT table at THAT time ?

[Ironside]

with crypto having to many skins everyone could have 10 or so aliases the only thing putting me off playing on a different skin at crypto is that i can play as ironside as i already have that name on another skin

[matt674]

Surely this is proof beyond doubt that every time you sit down at an online table, you have to play your cards, not the person... until you have made observations on the ability of the players on THAT table at THAT time ?

exactly.

like i said if i'd made notes on someone from a previous tourney and i came across them again in a tourney then i wouldnt treat my notes as gospel - if i had notes say on baron's girlfriend telling me that she was a rock but then when she appears at my table she's raising every second pot then i'm going to adjust my game accordingly and make notes to that affect. then if our paths cross for a third time i have to make judgment as to who i'm playing against the "rock" girlfriend or the soon to be sponsered by UB "lunatic" baron!!

postscript - my sincerest apologies for getting the title wrong 

[Ironside]

excuse me the soon to be sponsored by UB lunatic baron

[RED-DOG]

Can someone more articulate than me  point out the real pitfalls in all of this

[ifm]

Can someone more articulate than me  point out the real pitfalls in all of this

it's wrong

[Ironside]

you could end up on the same table as 1 person playing as 2 different people

[matt674]

Can someone more articulate than me  point out the real pitfalls in all of this

the only problem i can see with it is if the person with more than one account has the ability to play both accounts at the same time - would need two seperate computers with seperate connections to the internet to acheive this - and could then sit at the same cash table or sit and go. they would then be able to play as two different people at the same table simultaniously.

Its not as much of a problem with multi table tourneys though because the two alias' may not be sat at the same table as it is a "random" draw.

most online sites though would easily be able to spot if any collusion is taking place after reviewing betting patterns and going thru hand histories and close both accounts.

[AndrewT]

I'm really not sure that you can have multiple accounts at Betfair. Yes, it is possible to have multiple accounts on the Crypto network, but not at the same poker room (with the exception of Will Hill if you had an account with them before they linked the poker accounts to the sportsbook accounts - it is possible to have two there).

I think the original poster needs to clarify if by 'There is one lad who plays on it that has got 8 different user names!!' he means more than one Betfair account, or more than one Crypto (Will Hill, Littlewoods, UKBetting etc etc) account.

Even if you have multiple accounts, you can't sit down at the same table as play as two seats - both players having the same IP address prevents this.

The Prima network has a system in place whereby you can have accounts at the different poker rooms, but the software recognises this and makes you use the same alias at all of them.

EDIT: Should have read the replies better, Harby did say that the player had an account for each card. I'll be down at the Betfair forum game at the Gutshot this weekend so I might be able to ask someone about this, if Ruru hasn't clarified things by then

[Ironside]

I brought this up in the WSOP Qualifier "Rivercd" playing at 2 tables and he made it to Vegas.
Told Ruru about it but heard nothing back

Regards

M  
 

i refer the gentleman to this post

[Harby]

This chap only uses betfair and has 8 different names on betfair. There are a lot of players not just this one. Betfair have there own forum post a question and see the response. If this is fair why do all the other sites not allow it.

[ifm]

i remember that i think (might have been a different occasion) wasn't one uppercase and the other not?
May not have been the same person, i think Davebhoy said there are different folks on betfair with the same name as him just different cases