http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/archives/angerman03.htm

I'm surprised there is not more of it being reported. These are only the big names online, how many other smaller staked players are trying this? A few of the big online tourney wins are found to be frauds, how small a percentage is this to the real number of tourney wins?

I think there is a line somewhere in cheating online. When I first started playing online back in college I would regularly play online and chat with friends through instant messanger. This was all play money though back in those days but we would tell each other what we had and try to think of better ways to play the hand and what the other players had. Now none of my friends play anymore because they just weren't very good and gave up when it came to playing with real coin. At what point is instant messanger and ghosting considered cheating? Trying to learn the game and improve your play with help can also be learned from a book, is that considered an edge?

I think the line is somewhere in blatant cheating for a profit. Multi-accouting is definitely cheating. There is so much money in online poker that there will always be people out there trying to find that leak in the system. Just like the JJProdigy kid said he might be back after a while. There is simply no concrete way to keep him off the site if he really wanted to play and he knows that. It seems the rest of the online poker rooms know that too.