Multi-accounting

Also: multi-account, ghosting

Playing on more than one account on an online site, or letting someone else play your account ('ghosting'). Both are banned because they defeat the one-person-one-seat rule that tournaments rely on; ghosting scandals have stripped several online champions of their titles.

Example. The winner was disqualified after the site found a coach had ghosted his account at the final table.

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