Even so if nothing untoward is happening he has unlimited funds and could play every tournament on seals and have mounds and mounds of money left over so he has a huge advantage over the regular seals player in that regard alone and is freerolling all the tournaments he is in aside from having improbable statistics. Ender is the house in that he is able to fund every tourney if need be through compensation he gets for his stakes program so that's where I say it is a conflict of interest. playing poker should be a level playing field and he has a huge advantage any way you look at it.
So rich people should not be allowed to play either then?
Poker is not a level playing field in any sense of the words outside of the same rules should apply to everyone. That someone has extra resources to take more shots at a tournament than you is just life. Believe me, I wish I had more money cause I'd be dumping it into the WSOP. It's not "fair" that Hellmuth can buy into every event and I can only afford to buy into a few. But poker isn't a level playing field and that's ok.
So programmers for online poker sites should be allowed to play while serving as paid employees of the site as in Enders case? Your analogy doesn't address this issue. You can argue semantics but people have to put in buy codes in seals lobby to get staked of which Ender gets paid through seals with clubs ergo conflict of interest as he is paid employee of Seals . Seals can claim he is doing this on his own and is in no way an employee but that doesn't really hold water. If ender was a player running like god it wouldn't really be an issue but the fact that he is a paid employee running like god makes it an issue. The fact that he is doing it out in the open doesn't give me a warm sense of security either. I have seen him shoving 5 10 type hands on a consistent basis and winning consistently which is why I finally looked up his stats, his stats where more then impressive they where beyond phenomenal.
Skillwise I will put my game up against anyone, though maybe not luck wise. I have no idea who said my game wasn't up to par because never saw that name on seals. I have never seen either one of the 2 posters other then spike btw why would you use a different name on here then seals? Rhetorical btw I know the answer.