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First of all, I want you to start the registration process from your desktop or laptop computer which have most features, while the iPad or phone versions are different. You will most likely be unable to upload an avatar or take notes when using the iPad. After the registration though, it is up to you. As for me, I prefer iPad.

I would recommend you to create a separate email account to be used for registration, as you would expect quite a lot of letters from the administration. Some messages will be quite useful to you, therefore I would advise you to do exactly as I say – this will let you have all of the messages in one place and not to be confused with the other mail sent to you. You will be likely to receive various attractive offers. For instance, when a crisis arrived in Russia recently, some poker rooms were nearly doubling the money the residents of this country invested, which is very nice, you must agree. Also, you will probably be having questions to Support and you would rather have the answers kept in one place, as well as extracts from tournaments available.

Now for the registration. Many of you may have already signed up in the poker rooms. As for me, I have one account. I should say in this connection that if you get yourself another account or even more, you will first be warned and then expelled from the website, as having more than one account is against the rules. It is because those who play poker and earn on it, as well as the administration of the website believe that knowing opponents is an important part of the game. The more you play against someone, the more you know about his or her style of play and the reactions. If any of the players changes his or her user name, the other players will think they are playing against someone new, while that player with the new identity will well know his or her opponents. This will give him or her a significant advantage against the other players. You can create more than one account though, but you should do this with due care – by using a different email account and various different devices to play. You might say this is sheer nonsense and there is no problem in using the same account and the same device. Yet, believe me, you may be identified by your parameters anyway – at least by your IP address. Most annoying will be when you have earned your first hundred dollars, but you will be issued a ruling that you are a malicious violator, hence the administration has to ban you. As a result, you lose your account along with your money. Thus, you should not underestimate the security services of serious organizations, take my word for it :-).

So back to our registration. There are two options: If you aim for becoming famous in due course, I would recommend you to come up with a big nickname spelt in all capital letters, so it would be better impress the minds of your opponents. If you win at this table in World Cup, your name will be familiar to almost everyone present there, and you will be duly treated as a man of success – hence you resulting connections and relationships with other players. This is still far away. As for me, at this phase I prefer using under a modest and hardly memorable nickname made up of a set of random letters and numbers that gives very little information about me. It will hardly be remembered by the players, unless they take some notes, as I usually do, but we’ll come to that later.

Now, regarding your avatar. I would recommend to google for most annoying images, because in poker much depends on self-restraint. That who sooner loses control, will most likely become at outsider and will most likely lose. Perhaps you should consider remaining rather unnoticeable.

Normally, all the images are submitted to testing before being attached to the user. The administration reserves the right to reject any image that they deem inappropriate. The time taken to test the image depends on how many new images are downloaded. It may take up to five days to get the image approved.

Please note that you can easily change your avatar from the list in a gallery as often as you wish, with a restriction of using only two different avatars. Any new image chosen automatically deletes the previous one.

Well, I think, you will have no problems with the registration. Let’s move on.