News Winning Poker Network to Activate ScreenShield for Every Player Starting November 4 Owen Gaines Owen Gaines is a professional poker player and author who has played an estimated ten million hands and written four poker strategy books. October 16, 2026 ScreenShield will be switched on by default network-wide, with players able to turn it off in-client when they intentionally need screen-capture or streaming functionality.Beginning November 4, Winning Poker Network will activate ScreenShield by default for every player across the network.ScreenShield helps protect WPN poker tables from screen-capture and screen-sharing tools. When it is enabled, players continue to see and play their tables normally, while protected table content is blocked from the capture methods ScreenShield covers.For most players, no action will be required. ScreenShield will already be on. Players who intentionally need screen-capture functionality – including streamers, content creators, players recording sessions or those working with coaches – will be able to turn ScreenShield off themselves from the client settings.November 4: What changesScreenShield will be ON by default for every WPN player.Players can manage the feature directly from the ScreenShield settings page in the client.Players who intentionally need capture or streaming functionality can turn ScreenShield OFF themselves.ScreenShield remains an additional layer of protection, not a claim that every possible device-level security threat can be eliminated.Why WPN is making ScreenShield the defaultThe decision follows recent concerns around remote-access software found on player devices and the possibility that information visible on a player’s screen – including hole cards – could potentially be exposed if a device were compromised.WPN previously contacted players whose devices met its detection criteria for software with remote-access, screen-control or screen-capture capabilities and activated ScreenShield for those players as an additional precaution. The presence of software with those capabilities did not, by itself, mean that a player had been compromised.After reviewing the issue, WPN determined that the stronger default is to give every player ScreenShield automatically, while preserving the practical ability for players to turn it off when they knowingly need screen capture.How players will control ScreenShieldScreenShield is surfaced in the lower-left area of the WPN client and has a dedicated ScreenShield page inside Settings. Beginning November 4, the protection will be enabled by default. A player who needs screen-capture functionality can open the ScreenShield setting and switch it off. ScreenShield is surfaced in the lower-left area of the WPN client. The dedicated ScreenShield settings page gives players direct control. From November 4, ScreenShield will be enabled by default and players who need capture functionality can turn it off here. More than two million hands reviewedWPN also wants to provide clarity around the Game Integrity work carried out following the remote-access software concerns.The Game Integrity team reviewed more than 2,000,000 hands from players whose devices had MeshAgent detected. Across that review, WPN found no evidence that any player was using hole-card knowledge while playing on Winning Poker Network.That is the central finding from the gameplay review: despite the concerns that prompted the investigation, WPN did not identify evidence in those hands that any player was making decisions with knowledge of opponents’ hole cards.Paul Gregg reviewPaul Gregg was one of the players most prominently identified by members of the high-stakes community during the public discussion. WPN therefore conducted a detailed review of his WPN play, covering approximately 200,000 hands.After reviewing that sample, WPN found no evidence that Gregg was able to see another player’s hole cards or was using hole-card knowledge while playing on Winning Poker Network.A separate account decisionThat gameplay finding is separate from WPN’s decision regarding Gregg’s account. During the investigation, and through communication with other online poker operators, WPN gathered broader information regarding his history in the industry.Taking the totality of that information into account, WPN determined that continuing to provide access to the network was not in the best interests of the WPN poker ecosystem. His WPN account has therefore been closed.WPN is being transparent about both conclusions: its review found no evidence that Gregg used hole-card knowledge on WPN, while the network separately made an account-level Game Integrity and risk-management decision based on broader information available to it.Sharing the approach with the wider industryWPN has also shared information with other online poker operators on how this type of ScreenShield protection can be implemented, in the hope that the approach may be useful in protecting players elsewhere.No single feature can eliminate every possible cybersecurity threat. ScreenShield is another layer of protection – and beginning November 4, WPN believes that layer should be on for every player by default.The bottom lineStarting November 4, ScreenShield will be activated for every WPN player automatically. Players do not need to request it or turn it on themselves. Those who intentionally need screen capture or streaming can turn it off directly in the client settings.At the same time, WPN is putting the findings of its gameplay review on the record: more than 2,000,000 hands from players whose devices had MeshAgent detected were reviewed, including approximately 200,000 hands from Paul Gregg, and WPN found no evidence that any player was using hole-card knowledge on Winning Poker Network.