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Old 08-12-2007, 07:54 AM     Post subject: PokerStars Screen Names #1 (permalink)  
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Has Stars ever let anyone change their name? If they have let me know please.
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Old 08-12-2007, 03:36 PM #2 (permalink)  
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Old 08-12-2007, 04:57 PM #3 (permalink)  
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didn't ISF change from redgrape to heybude?
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Old 08-12-2007, 06:27 PM #4 (permalink)  
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 Hello Carl,

Thank you for your email.

In regards to your concern, please note that we do not allow user ID
changes in any way due to several reasons.

The reason we do not permit user ID changes is partially technological
and partially psychological, and partially for security.

From the database/programming perspective, it is not a trivial
change. Your user ID isn't stored in the hands -- just an internal
user number. When you request a hand history, it looks up your user
ID and inserts it where it should go. It would be a bad thing to have
previously requested histories say that "finesse914" was in seat 3 of
a particular hand, while the same hand history requested after a user
ID change says "angelfins" was in seat 3.

That would cause users who noted the apparent discrepancy to question
the accuracy of our database, which we cannot permit. Thus, same-
account user ID changes are technologically impossible without
extensive changes to the database software.

Some have pointed out that it would be trivial to just avoid all the
above and let players close one account to open another. We cannot
allow this for security reasons. All of the things that make your
account "yours" are lost if you jump to another account. All of your
hand histories, your financial transactions, your chat.... everything
is left behind and cannot be moved to your new account. For financial
security, much of this data is mandatory and cannot be considered
dispensable.

Finally, from the psychological side, in face-to-face poker you can
remember a person by their appearance, their mannerisms, or their
name. Chris Moneymaker will always be recognized as himself when he
enters a card room. Online, all those things are gone. The only
thing a player has to identify you as an opponent at the table is your
user ID, and your image (which we do permit to be changed more
easily). It would be unfair to other players to "get to know" your
playing style (taking notes, etc), and then permit you to close the
account in favor of a different user ID. To keep all players on the
same playing field, we limit players to one account per person, and no
user ID changes.

We wish you the best of luck playing here on PokerStars under your
current user ID.

Regards,

Sean
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Old 08-12-2007, 06:39 PM #5 (permalink)  
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I like the way when they are talking about other players recognising you at tables they reduce the fact that some players have Poker Tracker databases recording your every move over thousands of hands to '(taking notes, etc.)'.
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Old 08-16-2007, 10:11 PM #6 (permalink)  
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so how did ISF and Massimo do it?
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Old 08-17-2007, 02:01 AM #7 (permalink)  
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open an account under your mom/dad/spouse/friend's name. give them 1% income for their trouble.
 
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