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The world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars, announced this week it will begin cracking down on Tournament Leaderboard Competition abuse. So what exactly is going on?
From the PokerFuse.com website:
While making a deal at a final table, one of the front-runners on this year’s leaderboard paid players more money than a seat was worth for sitting out, guaranteeing first place TLB points. It was an agreement made on an $11 Turbo tournament final table back in mid-November that kicked off the controversy. Down to the final three, a normal final table deal had been made. Then, the current leader in the yearly TLB race, “uareadead lol,” offered the remaining two players an additional $100 to allow him to win the tournament and in the process capture the first place TLB points for that tournament.
Citing the ongoing crisis, PokerStars issued the following statement:
“On the back of this case, I wish to make it very clear that the type of actions involved here will not be tolerated.”
It then issued a series of steps that would be taken should violators continue abusing the Tournament Leaderboard Competition:
- First offense: deduction of all points in affected tournaments
- Second offense: disqualification from current year’s TLB competition
- Third offense: disqualification from next year’s TLB competition
And the most ominous of all: Forth offense: barring from PokerStars.
- Ace King, Gambling911.com
