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Full Tilt Pro Brian Townsend Admits Multi-Accounting.

August 31, 2008

After weeks of speculation amongst his peers around the poker community, Brian Townsend decided to come clean earlier this week regarding rampant accusations of multi-accounting during his online poke sessions.

He made the following announcement on his CardRunners blog about the situation:

For the past 6 months I have been playing under the 2nd aliases Stellarnebula on FTP and makersmark66 on PokerStars.  I have not used the aba20 account on Stars since I began playing on the Makersmark66 account.  I have since gone back to using the aba20 account and will play only that account.  During this time I played the 25/50 and 100/200 PLO games.  I played under the Stellarnebula account from February until the end of June at which time Lee Jones and I had a discussion and we came to an agreement that I needed to close it.  During this time I was playing under the Brian Townsend account, never at the same table with the Stellarnebula.  Under the Stellarnebula account I played 25/50, 50/100, and 100/200 PLO.  During this time I played a very small amount of 50/100 PLO and primarily 200/400 PLO under the Brian Townsend account.

The revelation has sparked a lot of controversy and discussion in the online poker community, especially since it involved a poker pro that everyone around the globe looked up to and admired.  As a grinder, Townsend made his way up from play $.25/$.50 NL and progressed all the way to playing $200/$400 and higher on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.  He was the one person that no one could ever possibly see as one who would multi-account, let alone someone who would need to after being signed on as a Full Tilt red pro.

Unfortunately, as explained in his blog, it was difficult to find big games that he could beat regularly since a lot of the high stakes players knew him and were beginning to adapt to his play.  His teaching gig on CardRunners also affected his own game, and he saw a second account as a way to even out any disadvantages.

For now, it seems a lot of people have to him his rescue on his blog, especially after most people kicked and spit on multi-accounters like Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo and “JJProdigy.” It is unclear whether the people can just turn their head away after this situation, as it should be a hot topic for the next few weeks.  What will be most important is how he’ll handle himself down the road and what he might be able to do clean up his reputation and encourage more online players to just stick to ONE account.  I wish him the best for now, but I really do hope this whole additional account non-sense can be controlled in the near future.

Written by SoCalPokerChick · Filed Under Online Poker News 

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