GGPoker has announced that it has banned 31 players for violating site rules. In a Friday tweet, the world’s largest poker room did not specifically say how the accounts broke the “fair play rules,” but did say that it investigated the accounts in collaboration with GTO Wizard, so it is probable that the players used real-time assistance (RTA) software while playing.
Because GGPoker now owns the World Series of Poker (WSOP), poker pro Patrick Leonard replied to the poker room on X, asking if the players behind the banned accounts will also be prohibited from participating in the WSOP.
Poker pro Fedor Holz, a member of GGPoker’s Poker Integrity Council, told Leonard: “That’s the plan and that’s what will happen.”
grabbed the attention of the poker community recently because of high-profile incidents
RTA software has been an issue for a while, but it has grabbed the attention of the poker community recently because of high-profile incidents involving two Americas Cardroom (ACR) Pros.
In late January, Nacho Barbero uploaded a photo of his computer monitor to Instagram which showed an instance of GTO Wizard alongside open ACR tables. Upon being called out, he claimed that he was coaching players on a Discord call and used the RTA software to check some hands.
Then, only about a week ago, someone noticed a year-old photo on Ebony Kenney’s social media showing her playing on ACR while having GTO Wizard running. Kenney was adamant that she never uses this kind of software while in a hand and only used it to review her play after the hand in question was over.
GGPoker’s announcement hearkens back to a similar situation in the fall of 2020 when the poker room banned 40 accounts and issued warnings to 40 more for using RTA tools. Like this time, the bans followed a notable RTA incident, when Fedor Kruse was caught using RTA.
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