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Pokerstars recently closed some Supernova+ VIP accounts for violations of our site rules in cases where we believe the players were not acting with malicious intent, but were instead simply unaware of our rules or not fully thinking through the impact of their actions. Our VIP and Game Integrity departments have worked together to write this email to try to keep this from happening to any more valued Supernova+ VIPs. Please read and carefully consider the below information as it relates to your play on the site to ensure that you don’t break a game rule without being aware.
All of the rules covered in this newsletter are in place for the benefit of you, our players. We must enforce the rules strictly in order to protect you from unfair play, regardless of the intent. It is your responsibility to know the rules and abide by them; we cannot allow ignorance to excuse rule violations that materially harm other players.
You are not being sent this email because of anything you have done. We are sending this email to all Supernova+ VIPs.
COLLUSION
As a Supernova VIP you should already understand that sharing holecards with another player at the table during play constitutes collusion, a violation of our rules. You may not be aware that soft-play and stack-balancing are also forms of collusion.
You might be tempted to consider an agreement, formal or informal, with a regular opponent at the tables with whom you have become friendly. It can be socially awkward to play your hardest against your acquaintances and especially your friends, particularly when significant sums of money are at stake or when there is mutual respect of each other’s poker skills. However, you must resist the temptation to soft-play, as while intentions might not be malicious, such agreements do materially harm other players at the table. We are able to review playing statistics to detect such agreements, potentially resulting in offending players losing their ability to play on PokerStars and the funds in their accounts.
If you play non-HU Sit & Go tournaments, you’ll want to be particularly careful. Technically you are breaking our collusion rules if you are at any time not acting in your best interests in the current tournament, even if your activities are not coordinated with anyone else. For example, it is not allowed as the big stack in a satellite paying multiple places to avoid calling against weak players in an attempt to ensure that a stronger, regular player finishes out of the money.
STAKING ARRANGEMENTS
If you are involved in staking, profit-sharing or any similar arrangement in which you have a financial interest in another player’s action, then you should not sit at the same ring game table or play the same Sit & Go tournament as the other player. This applies for *all* play, regardless of whether you have that player’s action for the current session.
We must enforce this rule for two reasons. The first reason is concern over appearances; many players would feel cheated if they knew that two opponents had such an agreement, regardless of their opponents’ intentions or actions. The second reason is that while the conscious intention may not be to alter play against such players, humans may find their decisions altered by their subconscious. It is impossible to guarantee that actions are not being affected by a financial interest in the outcome for one of your opponents.
Potential consequences for violating this rule may include, but are not limited to, the inability to sit at the same table or tournament as a particular opponent and even a temporary suspension of playing privileges.
MULTI-ACCOUNTING
You should already be aware that you are only allowed to have one PokerStars account. Additionally, you may not use another player’s PokerStars account or allow another player to use your PokerStars account. The following activities are prohibited:
1. Your friend wants to transfer you $1000 to play with, but is away from his computer. He gives you his password so that you can log in and make the transfer yourself.
2. You are staked by another player. The staking deal requires you to give him your password so that he can verify how the arrangement is progressing.
3. You take over an MTT from your friend because he is not as good at poker as you.
4. Your friend plays on your account while you are asleep so that you can win the TLB.
Giving advice to another player on a limited, ad-hoc basis is not multi-accounting. However, it is not permitted to operate a paid ‘ghosting’ service where you provide players with advice in exchange for compensation of any type. Similarly, organized and/or lengthy advice sessions are against the rules.
SUMMARY
We take our commitment to provide safe and secure games very seriously. We enforce the rules strictly for your protection, even if that sometimes means taking action against those who did not intend any harm. Please take this opportunity to know and understand our rules in order to ensure that you don’t unintentionally violate them and risk serious consequences including account closure.
Best wishes,
PokerStars Game Integrity Team
PokerStars VIP Team
