What do you think of changing alias of poker rooms?

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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?
 
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I'm totally in favor of changing the nickname. All my accounts are very old and I really don't know what I was thinking when I create some of my nicknames! :)
The bad part is that you gonna lose all the notes of the others players, but this also can be a good thing.
 
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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.
 
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from a personal point of view i think i would rather if other players couldnt do it as your notes, tracked hands etc are useless, but overall its good as it adds to the fairness of the game.
 
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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.
What do these scammers and cheats do by using the function?
 
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Seriously? Think about it, it should be obvious. I'm not going to spell it out here on the off chance of giving people ideas.
 
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I'm in favor of it as I don't use a HUD and feel pretty disadvantaged by them
 
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I'd say I'm in favor of it. You can potentially lose your notes on players but they can also not track you if you change your name. Not to mention the people who simply want a different name from the one they started with.
 
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Hmm. I did not know about this. I might just change my Lock name, seeing as how I don't play there much, and I have thought of some I like better since making my acc.
Thanks for the info.
 
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I picked my handle after long and serious thought. After several focus groups, online surveys, snail mail surveys, and in depth interviews by a highly trained and highly paid speciality firm I belive I will change nothing.
 
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i wish i could change a few of mine. i want them all to be the same oh well.
 
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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?

You cannot change your name on Revolution....

They disabled that feature almost 18 months ago when Lock "bought" the network.
 
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You cannot change your name on Revolution....

They disabled that feature almost 18 months ago when Lock "bought" the network.
This is what I had assumed to, but then figured OP must had tried it recently since he was quite specific about it.
 
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I'm not sure what he's talking about. I changed my SN weekly up until the day they changed their policy.

Since the policy change, I've played over a million hands on Revolution across 4 different skins. The option to change SN is most definitely not available anymore.
 
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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
 
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I would like to be able to change some of mine, just once and not on a regular basis. After down loading a site and putting in a quick screen name i have often wished i would have given it more thought.
 
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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.
 
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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.

people will always get around this and just open accounts on other people's names who don't care to ever play online poker, trust me the russians/eastern europeans in particular are very knowledgeable in hacking and cheating without getting caught im sure the chinese are as well
 
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Not even sure why I bother anymore...
 
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