Sorel Mizzi banned from PokerStars
After playing online poker's WCOOP within the US, the controversial Canadian faces a third strike ban from the poker room.
Sorel Mizzi is facing another ban from PokerStars, this time after having "taken a risk" and using a VPN to access the site to play in last year's WCOOP from within the USA, where it is currently illegal.
Due to poker's legal status in the US, Mizzi also had to play under another player's account, a form of multi-accounting which is strictly forbidden at PokerStars, leading to the ban.
Speaking on an episode of the Poker Life Podcast, which you can view below, the Canadian player, who has taken over $3.6 million in online tournament winnings, has fully admitted that he is responsible, if not entirely apologetic;
“I was being sneaky and I got caught and it sucks. I can’t play on [PokerStars] for a couple years.”
In the podcast, Mizzi also admits to “creating his own moral universe,” and claimed his actions were not as bad as Sheldon Adelson's money backed attempts to keep online poker banned in the US.
Past incidents
This is not the first time that Mizzi has broken the rules of online poker, indeed this isn’t even the first occasion he has been caught multi-accounting, having been found out in 2008 doing exactly that and banned from PokerStars for three months.
This came a year after he controversially bought the Full Tilt account of a player going deep in a $1 Million Guaranteed tournament. Mizzi's winnings were later confiscated before he received a lifetime ban from the site.
In 2011, Mizzi was accused of bottom dealing in a game of Chinese Poker, which the player strongly denies.
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