Some of them might have been duplicates, but I doubt that so many accounts were duplicate. Moreover I know about accounts that were for sure not duplicate and they say so.
The other thing is that now they say that players on Empire Poker who also have a Party Poker account count as duplicate accounts. The funny thing is that I asked this question from my affiliate manager about 2 months ago, and he said having Party and Empire account as well is absolutely fine!!!
What is shady in all this is that the player accounts were not closed, but removed from the affiliates. Now explain this to me: if they find out the account is a duplicate, how come they don’t close the duplicate account and ban the player? Because these are not duplicate accounts!!!!
My opinion is that they simply don’t want to pay affiliates and this indicates to me that they are in trouble. What I don’t understand is how can they think that they are not getting into much bigger trouble by fooling their affiliates? I mean my players are going to Bodog and all cashing out from Party and Empire for sure!