Winning Poker Network Makes ScreenShield the Default on Americas Cardroom From November 4

Winning Poker Network will turn ScreenShield on by default across Americas Cardroom and the wider network on November 4. For high-risk operators and their PSPs, the point is simple: WPN is tightening table-content protection while keeping an explicit off switch for legitimate capture use such as streaming, coaching, and training.

1. From November 4, players on Americas Cardroom will no longer need to request ScreenShield. The feature will be enabled by default network-wide, adding an extra layer of protection to WPN poker tables without changing the game itself.
2. ScreenShield is designed to stop protected WPN poker-table content from appearing through the screen-capture and screen-sharing methods it covers. Players still see their own tables normally, but protected content is blocked from capture where the feature applies.
3. WPN left an off switch in place for players who need capture functionality. Streamers, session recorders, training content creators, and players working with coaches can open the ScreenShield page in Settings and disable the feature themselves when they need it.
4. The network is also reviewing whether to go further and prohibit third-party software from being used alongside the poker client. No final decision has been made; WPN says the review is about balancing additional security and Game Integrity protection against legitimate player use cases.
5. The policy shift follows a large-scale gameplay review tied to recent remote-access software concerns. WPN examined more than 2,000,000 hands from players whose devices had MeshAgent detected and says it found no evidence that any reviewed player was using hole-card knowledge on the network.

The most notable name in that review was Paul Gregg: WPN says roughly 200,000 of the examined hands were played by Gregg, and it found no evidence that he could see opponents’ hole cards or used hole-card knowledge while playing on WPN. Separately, the network closed Gregg’s account after considering broader information gathered during its investigation and communication with other operators.

WPN is treating ScreenShield as an industry-security issue, not just a network setting. It has shared information with other online poker operators about how the protection can be implemented, which is the part that matters if you run payments, risk, or operations around poker traffic: table-security changes are no longer just product tweaks, they are part of the fraud and integrity stack.

About Americas Cardroom: formerly known as ACR Poker, it joined the Winning Poker Network in 2011. WPN says it has been dealing cards since 2001 and describes Americas Cardroom as consistently ranked first in payment processing and cashout reliability.