PokerStars Tourney Rules

Read this at the bottom of the tournament rules page at PokerStars.com. There are
a cuppla interesting caveats to the one man/woman one seat rule.

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.
(this looks like a loophole to me)

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.


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#3 does seem like a huge loop-hole...people can easily say they lost power, and I dont think there is any real way for the site to check! Doesn't see right to me!

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.


Wouldn't you still be signed in and just sitting out? I thought once you were logged in it would stay that way and not give access elsewhere.

Before you get too involved in the fine print there is something we all need to remember here. The poker rooms set the rules and some of them, as we can see, are kind of silly. We can also see that rules violations can be difficult to detect. If they sense that you have violated the rules, they don't have to prove that you did anything wrong. They can take the approach that you did something wrong and it's up to you to prove you didn't. If you can't prove it, your account and money are gone and you have no recourse! There's no consumer protection here!

If you think #3 is strange, think this part of #5 all the way through. This one is downright scary.