Equity Poker Network Resolves Multi-Accounting Security Flaw

ProfRB.com has confirmed that the Equity Poker Network has resolved player concerns over the use of multiple accounts across EPN-partnered online poker rooms.

Equity Poker Network Security Flaw Quickly Rectified

Yesterday on the popular poker forum Twoplustwo, players posted regarding the ability to be signed on to different online poker rooms at the same time on the same network. The players had been signed into Pokerhost and Full Flush Poker, the two leading skins on the Equity Network.

This is of course bad news for players. You see, if a nefarious actor decides to utilize this security oversight for their own purposes they could then cheat in a variety of ways. The most likely way would be to simply log into two accounts at the same time, sit at the same cash game or tournament, and share cards with themselves! One could whipsaw other players, make astute bluffs with knowledge of twice as many cards in the deck as other players, and more.

Definitely this is a flaw that needs addressing lest the network become overrun with cheaters and vagabonds who would do anything in order to have a +EV situation, even disparage the spirit of the game.

According to our own in-depth reporting on Pokerhost leaving Merge Gaming and moving to EPN, it was allowable to have multiple accounts across EPN-partnered rooms prior to this move. However, to have been able to create a new account at a competing EPN-partnered skin, a player must have been inactive for 6 calendar months on the player's original skin before said player can create a new account on another EPN operator's platform. This led to some immediate confusion as to whether or not Pokerhost players coming into the new network pool would be able to set up accounts on other EPN-partnered online poker rooms.

However, we have been told direct from two sources that EPN has fixed this issue once and for all. Players with accounts on multiple EPN-partnered rooms will not be able to sign on to more than one EPN-partnered poker client at a time moving forward. Given that EPN uses the same software as the Chico Network, who once had the same issue, this was likely a related and unfortunate oversight.

As one would imagine, despite the previous flaw in the software, any player caught playing on two EPN-partnered rooms at the same time would still have been disciplined via a network ban from play as well as being subject to having their winnings confiscated.

by ProfRB Editor

RELATED CONTENT:

> US-friendly Gambling and Poker Sites Guide Page
> Pokerhost leaves Merge Network for new Equity Poker Network
> Full Flush Poker Information page
> Full Flush Poker HUD Information

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