Brian Townsend Admits Multi-Accounting

In the never dull world of Online Poker, Brian Townsend who is well known Full Tilt Pro and Lead instructor at the most popular  “CardRunner”, admitted Multi-accounting on Pokerstars. His name is now added to the list of famous Multi-accounting players Like Zeejustin (Justin Bonomo). Yet, in a strange twist, most of the poker world has been rallying to his support. This is very different than the reaction to other players doing this very same thing.

Brian talked about himself playing multiple accounts on his blog. Here is a quote:

For the past 6 months I have been playing under the 2nd aliases Stellarnebula on FTP and makersmark66 on PokerStars. I have not used the aba20 account on Stars since I began playing on the Makersmark66 account. I have since gone back to using the aba20 account and will play only that account. During this time I played the 25/50 and 100/200 PLO games. I played under the Stellarnebula account from February until the end of June at which time Lee Jones and I had a discussion and we came to an agreement that I needed to close it. During this time I was playing under the Brian Townsend account, never at the same table with the Stellarnebula. Under the Stellarnebula account I played 25/50, 50/100, and 100/200 PLO. During this time I played a very small amount of 50/100 PLO and primarily 200/400 PLO under the Brian Townsend account.

Editor’s Note:

I guess i can somewhat understand doing this if I was in Brian’s shoes. He is one of the most famous online poker players in the world, and he has spent the last few years teaching people how to play like him and at the same time giving his opponents a chance to see inside his game. He has mentioned in interviews that this has definitely affect his game and winrate. So, playing under an unknown name is a major advantage for him and other in his position.

There is a huge difference in my opinion between what Brian has done and what other like ZeeJustin did. In this case Brian just used another account to play on for a while. ZeeJustin would use several accounts in the same Multi-table tournaments.

I guess it’s all a matter of opinion and percepective.

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