freeroll cheater

Hey guys...

It seems at the Absolute Poker Freeroll this past Sunday some collusion was involved. Fortunately the player(s) involved didn't come even close to the money but I thought this should be brought up anyway. Here is a copy of the email I received from Absolute (my original message is included):
I believe the players name here is Justar.

Interesting. You'd think these idiots would be a little less suspicious by picking names that arent so similar

It so they don't forget who they are.....!!!! lol

I found some similar possible collusions and when i emailed ap recieved that same email. unfortunately they didnt do anythign as i still see both players at the table all the time.. it was something like andvyo and andvyosgay.. i mean honsetly..

How does these freeroll tourneys works?

A freeroll is a standard tournament where the entire prize pool is donated by a sponsor (in the case of THF freerolls, it's texasholdemforums). Since these are complete promotional tournaments with (literally) FREE money to give out, often players will try to gain an advantage (quite pitiful, really), and create multiple accounts to play in this freeroll (as was the case with Justar here).

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ive seen this even on pokerstars and ultimate bet it is quite sad really that you couldnt do it by yourself so you create multiple accounts

It does need a little more than just multiple accounts; different IP address per log in and multiple PC's. Possibly running multiple instances of Windows though virtualization on a single system will do. Which I still dont think will sort out the IP address issue unless you can feed each virtual PC connection through a different proxy server! All that effort and then using dumb screen names.

Pokerroom used to have a ton of problems with that, there would be people in freerolls with up to 5 accounts.

I think they were not checking IPs, just relying on the software not being able to run multiple copies at once.

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