Can someone play a tournament for you?

Today I have a big tourney that I can not get out of. I will be able to play some of it but Im not sure I will have time to finish because I have to go to work. Which is more important. Should I just play agressive and try to knock out as many as possible...?What should i do?

Is it legal to have someone play a tournament for you on your account?

I dont know what i should do....taking all advice

If you get caught the site will most likely suspend your account...Play aggressive and hope to make enough to last I think might be your best option.

Depending on the importance of the tourney would make the difference on whether you would get caught though. GL with your decision either way..

If I were you I'd give my site name and password to a friend and have them play the rest of the tournament for you. Make sure you pick a friend that knows a little bit about poker. LOL

thanks yea i definetly dont want to break the rules, just didnt know the ruling on it. But looks like im going to have to play very agressive..

Unwise. Your account may very well be closed if you do that and the poker site ever finds out about it.

gl jeff, its not really advisable to give out your name and password because like they said, you woulld risk your account. Just ultra aggresive and hope to place!

Im thinking about telling my girlfriend to call my work and have her tell them Im in jail again. haha. it works because I spent a few months there this past year so they wouldent think im lying.. idn.

We have a few members who have their spouses sit in for them from time to time. Tammy, Freak & AG to name a few, of course all these spouses are better players than the members so this tends to work out for them. In, for instance a CC game it is considered good form to let the other players know that you your ownself are not playing.

Lololol.

This is considered cheating by most sites I believe. However, I do believe someone taking over for you that was not originally registered in the tournament is seen in differently than someone taking over for you that already donked out. I'm not 100% sure on this and I wouldn't recommend finding out.

Its not allowed.. but honestly how would they know???

I mean unless you typed it in the message box and said 'hey guys im using my friends account'

How would they know???

I think that you should get family to play because this otherwise is throwing away money dont break rules but also look out for you

as always you are suppose to play your own account and can lose your account if caught and not only that but your friend could lose their account

i would let a friend play in it for you as long as its on your comp thats for sure. but i wouldn't worry about it to much at all. But i wouldn't miss work to play a online tornment thats for sure. At least work you are a 100% to come out ahead.

Pretty sure it's legal actually. Check with the site first though. If someone busts and THEN takes over your account it's highly illegal and the source of last year's WCOOP ME winner being stripped of their title. But I think as long as the other player didn't enter that it's ok under their TOC. Just email them and see what they say.

Poker Stars - Poker Tournament Rules

Read rule 21. But I don't know which site you're on and I'm too lazy to look on other sites.

I do believe it is against most poker sites policy. That being said however, if you get someone to play from your computer, how can anyone know. But if they play from somewhere else, you will have 1 tournament played with 2 different IP addresses signing on. The poker site may never find out but if they do you may be banned, and forfeit your bankroll.

With trivial exceptions, a player may play on only one account during a tournament and may not "hand off" his seat in mid-event to a different player. Violation of this rule may result in penalties ranging from a warning, to disqualification from the tournament (with partial or full forfeiture of winnings), to barring from PokerStars.

Examples:

1. You get a phone call during a PokerStars tournament. You ask your husband, who has already busted out of that tournament, to play your hands for you. You are on the phone for ten minutes and then resume play. This is permitted.
2. You and a friend are playing in the same tournament. You agree that if he busts out before you do, he will take over playing your account. This is prohibited.
3. You are playing in a tournament and lose power in your home due to a failure of your power station. You call a friend and he takes over until your power is returned. This is permitted.
4. Your husband is out of town for the weekend, but gives you his password. You log into both his account and yours and play both accounts in the same tournament. This is prohibited.
5. You have progressed to the final few tables of a tournament and somebody offers you cash equity for your seat. You allow the other player to sign into your account, or you continue to finish the tournament following the explicit instructions given by him. This is prohibited.

Mmmmmmm..... my girlfriend and I share our accounts - we could never both play at the same time in any tourney.
But what just comes to my mind - If I won the qualifier for WSOP or similar on our FT-account she would have to go....because she signed on and paid in on that account.

They could find out the ip address doesnt match! but highly unlikely
Play aggressive and see how people react you might win something real quik

i would have to say to play agg as well and try to rack up enough to sit out and make the money but also you should think about not playing satalites that you cant make because you are just wasteing your time that you put into the first tourney as for someone playing for you i am not sure but i would think it would be ok be theyarent winning the money so i guess it would be a question of if someone wants to play for that long without getting anything out of it but do not qoute me because I am not sure if it is aloud

it is very likely to track the IP because a buddy of mine got kicked of of railbirds for sharing passwords and he said that the usernames was different and theystill tracked him but then again your IP is not always going to be the same if you log of your modem or network for a while then you will be assigned a new IP once you log back on so maybe my buddy was lieing or i dont know but it can be tracked

it will let you do it if yall are using the same internet..at school i cna go on any of my friends labtops and play using my name and it has let me do it..now it is the same internet but what if i wasnt the one using my name? at the same time i like it cuz i dont hae to have my labtop everywhere i go.

I think you guys are missing the point here.

Yes IP addresses can be tracked so to hand over mid tournament would MAYBE look a bit odd if the site were investigating.

However you can play from anywhere. Home, work, holiday home, hotel room, cafe, best buddies machine who also has an account etc etc.

It makes no odds where you play from. Its YOUR account.

So as I said earlier in this thread.. unless you tell them (via email or via the chat box) then how would they know that it wasnt YOU playing.

Its not a question of 'what IP address' or 'whose machine'

The question is simply were YOU playing... and of course your answer would be 'yes, of course it was Sir' ... after all how could they ever know?

(just remember to use a proxy server if you intend to get an international friend to play for you.. but beond that what relevence are IP addresses?)