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Hi there fellow poker enthusiasts - i need advice but i am gonna have to give you some background story first so please bare with me.

I'd wanted to play poker online for quite awhile and was too impatient to wait until i was of the legal age so i set up an account under my elder brother's name and played with this account for several months. A fact that i didnt think about when i was setting up this account was that my brother already had an account but despite this, i played and was not bothered. When i turned 18 i set up an account under my own name and stopped using the other account. Having played at several different sites, to me, pokerstars is one of the best, largely due to the tournaments - the sunday million in paticular - BUT i am scared to play in any large tournaments becuase if i happen to win any substantial prize money, i fear pokerstars may check up on my details and realise there are 3 account registered with the same surname and with the same address. Realising this i imagine they would ban me from the site and take any money from my account.

Basically, my problem is this...

I really want to be able to play the Sunday Million weekly as well as other large tournaments so should I:

A: Get in contact with pokerstars and explain the situation (do you think they'd forgive me..?) and hope they'll let me continue to play at their site.

B: Play big tournaments and if i win some big cash, fingers crossed they wont look into my account and ask questions.

C: Forget pokerstars, I've burnt that bridge (i really dont want to forget pokerstars).

Phew... sorry - i know it's a long winded post but look on the bright side... it took me longer to type than it did for you to read it.

Anyway, please bring on the advice!

If i were to explain the situation


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suvalgysiu
Joined: 09.06.2007

I say write to support, be honest and try to apologize. I don't think they would like to lose a customer, but if they shut your account, at least you'll know and not burn any money that is in there.


Tell them, It's better than wait for they to found it.


I had double accounts on pokerstars for a while and they found out about it.
And all they did was to transfer all my money and FPPs from both accounts to one of the accounts and told me to never do it again.
So i dont think you will get in trouble if you tell them. You are allowed to screw up once, but not twice.


mafaz
Joined: 07.12.2007

hmm withdraw all the money from there and start your own account.


alejandrosh
Joined: 02.07.2008

they won't take your money.

unless you use both accounts and enter the same tournament, that's collution and then pokersites have no tolerance.

as long as you don't gain an edge for having an old account they shouldn't have any reason to take away any money you make.


thanks for your feedback guys


excelgeo
Joined: 17.10.2008

let us know what happens