Worked for an online poker company. The information they stored from users devices was insane. Registration and connection ips, mac addresses, disk serials. Basically any identifiable piece of pc information they stored in their database so they knew who was logging in where and from what computer.
So, purely hypothetically, if I used three separate computers, connected with 2 of them through VPNs set to different locations, would they look like 3 different players, even if located in the same room?
Every online poker does (and should do) this as part of their security to keep users from “multi-accounting”. If users were able to have multiple accounts, on multiple computers, from the same room so they could play two (or even more) spots in a cash game or a 9-handed sit & go tournament, they would have a huge advantage over other players.
Worked for an online poker company. The information they stored from users devices was insane. Registration and connection ips, mac addresses, disk serials. Basically any identifiable piece of pc information they stored in their database so they knew who was logging in where and from what computer.
So, purely hypothetically, if I used three separate computers, connected with 2 of them through VPNs set to different locations, would they look like 3 different players, even if located in the same room?
Every online poker does (and should do) this as part of their security to keep users from “multi-accounting”. If users were able to have multiple accounts, on multiple computers, from the same room so they could play two (or even more) spots in a cash game or a 9-handed sit & go tournament, they would have a huge advantage over other players.