Pro player Ivan Deyra (pictured) multi-accounted during the Winamax Series. He was quickly found out and promptly banned from the site. Winamax also terminated his sponsorship deal, which was scheduled to end in June.
As often happens when someone gets caught cheating, what did Deyra in was that he succeeded. Had he lost while playing on more than one account, he might not have been noticed (it also doesn’t help that he is a visible member of Winamax Team Pro).
Deyra won the €2,000 Super High Roller event for €83,300, but the catch was that he did it using his father’s account, “MATIVANAO,” not his own “ValueMerguez” account. It appears that Winamax caught him fairly quickly, as players in the tournament received payouts from Deyra’s confiscated funds.
The poker community, however, did not realize what had happened until late last week, when a poster on Club Poker, a French poker forum, said that a Winamax employee told him that Deyra had multi-accounted.
After that, players who received distributions from Deyra’s winnings put two and two together, realizing that the allegation was likely true. On top of that, someone noticed that the winning player, MATIVANAO, was a screen name comprised of Deyra’s name and his siblings’ names, so it had to be related to him.
Once the poker community realized the rumors about Deyra were true, he put out a statement admitting to what he did. He apologized, saying,
“Neither [Winamax] nor I would have wanted this, but it is so. Today, with hindsight I recognize the cheating aspect of multi-accounting, searching within myself to dig into the reasons for this unforgivable and serious act,” he explained.
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