Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=15965992'>posted</a> on 09/10/2012:

What a joke. So we're now accepting the screening of players, Las Vegas style, before they sit down at the table?

The only time when double accounts, by signing up in someone else's name, are unacceptable is when those accounts are created for bonus scamming. Other than that, if the bet is up for players A through Y, it should be open to player Z as well.

These online casinos are set up to scam players. They don't meet the regulations of Vegas games. All the losses by players are gladly accepted, but when someone wins it's cheating? I don't think so. The book is free to close the account anytime. But they can't confiscate winnings that were accumulated before that. That's simply the risk they take on by offering online gambling. Similar to Justin using a disguise to play blackjack in Vegas. The disguise does not invalidate the play. When the books finds out they can terminate the play. If they do confiscate the winnings as well, they're thieves.

Fwiw, these are the kind of stories that will be gladly used by the anti-internet gambling dopes to illustrate it's no better than the Wild West out there.