Todd Witteles has fired shots at Justin Bonomo over his well-documented multi-accounting cheat spree back in 2006.
When questioned on the scandal in a recent interview, Bonomo was immediately defensive and claimed that it wasn’t even against the rules back then and certainly not comparable to today’s poker world.
Upon hearing this, Witteles was like a dog with a bone refusing to let go and see the matter glossed over once again.
Since this comes up every so often when @JustinBonomo decides to lie about the past…
In 2006, cash multi-accounting WAS common, provided you didn’t have 2 accounts at same table.
Tournament multi-accounting, which Bonomo was caught doing, was neither common nor accepted.
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— Todd Witteles 📟 (@ToddWitteles) April 13, 2024
Justin Bonomo Says Multi-Accounting Didn’t Used to Be Cheating
For those who aren’t fully aware, Justin Bonomo cheated on PokerStars and PartyPoker during the poker boom by using at least two accounts at the same time in MTTs.
Todd Witteles acknowledges that multi-accounting was prevalent back then, but not with the intention to sit at a table with more than one account.
Bonomo has actually admitted that he ended up playing two seats at the same table in various tournaments.
Witteles is adamant that multi-accounting in this fashion was “neither common nor accepted”, as opined by Bonomo.
The big difference, of course, was that tourney multi-accounting could easily cause you to be at the table with yourself, which Bonomo admitted occurring!
It’s BS that he pretends people were ok with this in 2006. Nobody was, which is why this was a big scandal at the time.
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— Todd Witteles 📟 (@ToddWitteles) April 13, 2024
Two-time WSOP bracelet winner Jesse Martin even dug up a few quotes from Justin Bonomo in a 2+2 thread where he tried to justify his unethical behaviour.
“I have never done this in a tournament with less than 1,000 players.”
“I would simply open up 4-6 more SNGs. I felt that this would negate my unethical advantage”
“With 10 tables open, I just play tight and solid. I can’t even remember the hole cards one account folded after the flop”
“I realize my standard play should have been to sit one account out when this happens”
Witteles Promises to Keep Calling Out Bonomo
Given how many cheating scandals the poker community has faced in recent years, Todd Witteles has promised to keep reminding everyone that what Justin Bonomo did was not acceptable in 2006 or today.
He said he will call him out on it everytime he tries to present it in a different way.
Witteles brings up the case of Ali Imsirovic who has to be one of the most disliked players in the space today after being caught multi-accounting in high-stakes games.
This is a crime in the biggest games where edges are small. If one player has information on another without them knowing who they’re actually playing against this can make all the difference.
Justin Bonomo probably makes his political opinions more visible than any other poker player, right now. For this reason alone he sets himself up to be a target.
The last thing he needs is to be trying to justify unethical play in the current poker climate even if he does admit that he did wrong to some degree.
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