Americas Cardroom To Enable ScreenShield By Default For All Players
Winning Poker Network will enable its ScreenShield table-protection feature by default from 4 November, while allowing players who require screen-capture functionality to disable it manually.
Americas Cardroom players will have ScreenShield enabled by default from 4 November as Winning Poker Network (WPN) expands the use of its table-protection feature across the network.
ScreenShield is designed to prevent protected WPN poker-table content from appearing through the screen-capture and screen-sharing methods covered by the technology.
Players will continue to see their own tables normally, with the feature making no changes to the underlying game.
Players Can Disable ScreenShield
While ScreenShield will become the default setting, players who require screen-capture functionality will still be able to disable it manually.
This includes streamers, players recording sessions, training content creators and those working with coaches. The feature can be turned off through the ScreenShield page within the poker client’s Settings.
WPN is also evaluating whether to introduce a broader policy prohibiting third-party software from being used alongside its poker client.
No final decision has been made, with the network considering additional security and Game Integrity measures alongside legitimate player use cases.
WPN Reviews More Than Two Million Hands
The change follows a gameplay review conducted in response to recent concerns surrounding remote-access software.
WPN reviewed more than two million hands played by users whose devices had MeshAgent detected. According to the network, the investigation found no evidence that any of the reviewed players had used knowledge of opponents’ hole cards while playing.
Approximately 200,000 of the reviewed hands were played by Paul Gregg, who had been the subject of discussion within the high-stakes poker community.
WPN said its review found no evidence that Gregg could see opponents’ hole cards or that he used hole-card information while playing on the network.
The network separately closed Gregg’s account after considering broader information collected during its investigation and through communications with other operators. WPN said the account decision was separate from the findings of its gameplay review.
WPN Shares ScreenShield Information With Operators
WPN is also positioning ScreenShield as a potential wider online poker security measure.
The network has shared information with other online poker operators about how similar screen-protection technology can be implemented, allowing them to assess whether comparable safeguards could be introduced for their own players.
