What do these scammers and cheats do by using the function?Most poker sites discourage or disallow it because it makes it much easier to for scammers and cheats to avoid detection. I'm somewhat surprised Revolution still allows it. It's a holdover from the old Cake network. Cake used to be very anti-tracker/HUD, like Bovada is today, and even encouraged frequent nick changes to thwart other players tracking you or buying datamined HH's against you. They later (wisely) softened their stance and became accepting of trackers/HUDs and I thought they stopped the rename feature at the time, but I guess not.
On the Revolution network poker rooms,players can change their alias or nickname at any time if they want.But other poker rooms dont have that permission.What do you think of that?Changing or not changing?Good or bad?
This is what I had assumed to, but then figured OP must had tried it recently since he was quite specific about it.You cannot change your name on Revolution....
They disabled that feature almost 18 months ago when Lock "bought" the network.
Nearly all the major, publicized cheating scandals, from the super-user accounts at UB/AB, to the Chinese DON collusion ring that Stars busted, to the Nick Grudzien (founder of StoxPoker and author of arguably the best book on Limit Hold'em) collusion scandal, to Ghirah, were discovered by other players who noticed suspicious activity, started talking to other players who hand noticed the same, then aggregated their player databases together that showed clear patterns over large sample sizes. In at least one case, the datamining site PTR used their player database to publicly out cheaters. This served as the damning evidence needed to prove cheating occurred and forced the sites to take action.I think you should be able to request to change it, I don't see how you could cheat just by changing it, but maybe limit the amounts of time you can change to 3 or so, or limit to 1 change a year
Nearly all the major, publicized cheating scandals, from the super-user accounts at UB/AB, to the Chinese DON collusion ring that Stars busted, to the Nick Grudzien (founder of StoxPoker and author of arguably the best book on Limit Hold'em) collusion scandal, to Ghirah, were discovered by other players who noticed suspicious activity, started talking to other players who hand noticed the same, then aggregated their player databases together that showed clear patterns over large sample sizes. In at least one case, the datamining site PTR used their player database to publicly out cheaters. This served as the damning evidence needed to prove cheating occurred and forced the sites to take action.
This is why Bovada's anonymous tables are so controversial and prone to cheating. When people can hide their online identity, or change their name weekly, you can never get enough hands on them to identify patterns and tie them together.
Also, staking scammers can regularly change their online identity to steal new stakes.