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I've been following this case and I'm definitely on the no-cheating side, but it should be mentioned that what made this case weird and polarizing was that the
by zone411 4y ago
I've been following this case and I'm definitely on the no-cheating side, but it should be mentioned that what made this case weird and polarizing was that the employee of the production team was caught stealing $15k of her chips on the same day. So, you had two big coincidences, a possibility of somebody on the inside being crooked, the player returning the money, and this somewhat understandably caused a lot of conspiracy theories to emerge. It also emerged (noted in the report) that the production booth had live access to hole cards.
Also, note that shoving != calling, so it was definitely an unusual hand. And poker players are very wary of cheating - there was a famous case of Mike Postle in livestreamed games.
- awb 4y agoDoug Polk (a fairly well known poker player) dives into theories of a vibrating chair and an inside job: https://youtu.be/xPQUarLEr9A https://youtu.be/xPQUarLEr9A https://youtu.be/t3l7xw7mbcs https://youtu.be/t3l7xw7mbcs