Does David Benyamine have 2 FTP accounts?

#1 29th April 2009, 11:29 PM

For anyone who watches the high stakes action on FTP, please clarify this. I've seen David Benyamine play on FTP under the screen name "David Benyamine" before. I've also seen someone with the screen name "MR B 2 U SON" playing in the high stakes FTP games before too (although I didn't know who that was previously). A recent CardPlayer article (http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news...ot-limit-omaha) about Gus Hansen's online one-day success gave me some concerns. Below is the important (or at least, relevant to this post) section:

Hansen Picks Up $186,000 From David "MR B 2 U SON" Benyamine

In a much smaller, 266-hand session, Hansen faced off with David Benyamine in a two-table showdown. The two played for about an hour, and although Hansen once again came out victorious, the win was a much more reasonable $186,000.

That's the first paragraph of the match against Benyamine, but only the title is really important here. If this is correct, that means David Benyamine has two separate FTP accounts. Hopefully someone can clarify this for me as I would not only lose respect for Benyamine for violating the FTP terms of service or end-user license agreement (or whatever document says you can only have one account on the site), but I would also lose respect for FTP for not catching it and they would very likely lose my business for allowing this to take place so blatantly.

Again, I don't want this to be true, but unless someone explains (and proves) otherwise this will be yet another sad day for online poker. He may not be playing with a super-user account as has happened in the past, but he is still breaking the rules and that is none-the-less cheating.

#2 30th April 2009, 12:35 AM

Pretty sure hes not a pro there anymore?

#3 30th April 2009, 12:41 AM

http://www.bankrollboost.com/poker_b...-tilt-red-pro/

Yeah no longer a Red Pro, so just plays under his old sn

#4 30th April 2009, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sohmurr

For anyone who watches the high stakes action on FTP, please clarify this. I've seen David Benyamine play on FTP under the screen name "David Benyamine" before. I've also seen someone with the screen name "MR B 2 U SON" playing in the high stakes FTP games before too (although I didn't know who that was previously). A recent CardPlayer article (http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news...ot-limit-omaha) about Gus Hansen's online one-day success gave me some concerns. Below is the important (or at least, relevant to this post) section:

Hansen Picks Up $186,000 From David "MR B 2 U SON" Benyamine

In a much smaller, 266-hand session, Hansen faced off with David Benyamine in a two-table showdown. The two played for about an hour, and although Hansen once again came out victorious, the win was a much more reasonable $186,000.

That's the first paragraph of the match against Benyamine, but only the title is really important here. If this is correct, that means David Benyamine has two separate FTP accounts. Hopefully someone can clarify this for me as I would not only lose respect for Benyamine for violating the FTP terms of service or end-user license agreement (or whatever document says you can only have one account on the site), but I would also lose respect for FTP for not catching it and they would very likely lose my business for allowing this to take place so blatantly.

Again, I don't want this to be true, but unless someone explains (and proves) otherwise this will be yet another sad day for online poker. He may not be playing with a super-user account as has happened in the past, but he is still breaking the rules and that is none-the-less cheating.

FT is a bit weird about this.. They let their big dogs do whatever they wanna do.. Before it was Patrick Antonius and others who had multiple accounts now its David B.

#5 30th April 2009, 2:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheseNutsWin

FT is a bit weird about this.. They let their big dogs do whatever they wanna do.. Before it was Patrick Antonius and others who had multiple accounts now its David B.

FWIW, Benyamine is probably still just singl-accounting. He had the David Benyamine account while he was a sponsored pro, and he's gone to / back to the MR B 2 U SON account now that he's not sponsored any more.

The thing about the nosebleed stakes is that the standard rules probably don't apply. Most of the people who have the most to "lose" from something like this are the name pros like Hansen and Ivey who actually have an ownership stake in the site and, one assumes, would have some kind of say in whether people they're playing against get banned for multi-accounting.

And the biggest offenders are probably guys like Guy Laliberte. The guy loses millions across multiple accounts, and if signing up under multiple accounts keeps him playing well, you can see why the site owners might be happy to look the other way.

Cliff notes: multi-accounting probably isn't considered the serious crime at nosebleeds that it is at low stakes

#6 30th April 2009, 2:20 AM

First off it was answered how it's not multi-accounting, but as long as everyone knows who he is why is it a problem? I could see if he played under xx78hhir3 and no one knew who he was why it would be a problem but if anyone playing him knows he's the same guy it should be no problem at all.

#7 30th April 2009, 2:57 AM

all those guys have multiple accounts, seems I read a list where one pro had three accounts,

I dont get it either, I also didnt know David B. ran under that name, well now I know.

when you observe everyone says that Mr B to you, is a brunson or something.

#8 30th April 2009, 3:14 AM

Eli Elezra said on an episode of Poker After Dark that he has like 17 accounts on FTP.

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