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A pro poker player claims his opponent has “clearly cheated” during a live streamed poker game.
Garrett Adelstein, a regular at the 24-hour Hustler Casino in California, played at a Texas Hold’em game.
But he was stunned when relative newcomer to the game, Robbi Jade Lew, suddenly made a call to go all-in despite a relatively poor hand.
Those who commented on the game were in disbelief as the odds stacked against her with online gambling casino DraftKings calculating that there were about 150 ways for Lew to lose, but only six ways for her to win – which she then did.
Adelstein forced Lew to move all-in and appeared shocked when hee cards revealed that she had a “Jack high” and won the hand.
Poker newcomer Robbi Jade Lew, right, won an all-in hand for a $269,000 pot from Garrett Adelstein, who lost the hand, thinking she cheated during the game
Garrett needed a club, six or a jack, but Lew’s jack won the hand.
The look on Adelstein’s face as he lost his hand said it all as he watched in disbelief and simmering anger.
“I don’t understand what’s happening now,” he said.
“You look like you want to kill me. I thought you had ace high,” Lew said.
“So why call with jack high?” said Adelstein. A jack high would have lost to ace high.
“Because you ain’t got no s**t!” said Lew.
Adelstein then got up and left the table.
Lew has explained her unorthodox way of playing with her hand because she simply believed that Adelstein’s cards were inferior to hers.
Adelstein’s cards saw him draw a 9 and then an ace, with most poker players suggesting that Lew should have folded rather than bet her entire stack of chips
“Get over it,” she wrote on Twitter.
But Adelstein later revealed on social media how Lew then offered to return the lost money which he took as a sure sign of her guilt.
“How do you keep a grown man from throwing a tantrum?” she wrote online. “As a woman in a male-dominated sport, it’s hard enough standing up to the table bully.”
In an additional tweet, she explained how she was taken outside the gambling hall by Adelstein and threatened “into a dark hallway.”
“Garrett blocked me. Guilty as charged. What an honest man. He cornered and threatened me. If he has the guts to stare death at me ON camera, just imagine what it’s like OFF the camera. I was taken out of the game and had to talk to him in a dark hallway,” she wrote online.
Adelstein has accused Lew of cheating.
“Poker is an extremely complicated and nuanced game,” he said, adding that her hand had “very little equity.”
He then analyzed some of Lew’s earlier strategies and suggested that someone could “cheat” by using a “hidden device that simply vibrates to indicate you have the best hand.”
“Another common form of cheating is for someone to have the technology to know who has the best hand at the showdown by hacking into the card reader.”
Lew then returned his winnings shortly after, with Adelstein seeing the gesture as ‘an admission of guilt’
Some on social media suggested that Lew’s chair was shaking before she called
Adelstein has not provided any evidence that Lew has cheated or used such a device.
He noted how he told her after the game, “Robbie, this is probably going to be watched by millions… I think you know by now, you screwed up.”
It was then that Adelstein claimed that Lew offered to pay him back the winnings.
“Knowing that a) this was probably the closest thing to a confession and b) how impossible it is to get money back in these cheating scandals…I took up her offer,” he wrote.
“Once she offers it, I will of course accept my money back after I’ve clearly been scammed.”
Lew has explained her unorthodox way of playing with her hand because she believed Adelstein’s cards were inferior to hers
Lew then explained how she was ‘forced to talk to him in a dark hallway’, after which she offered him her winnings back.
A DraftKings blog seemed equally baffled by Lew’s decision.
‘Forget ranges or game theory optimal play, even the most novice players simply never make that call based on the strength of their hand. You can always bluff in poker, but once your opponent goes all-in for twice the size of the pot, the bluffing stops.
Hustler Casino Live co-founder Nick Vertucci has said that Lew is an inexperienced player who probably misread her hand.
“There’s no way there’s anything that could be cheating,” Vertucci said. “We checked everything.”
Hustler Casino has said neither players will be invited to return until the incident is investigated.
Adelstein then took to social media in an attempt to unpack what had happened, suggesting that Lew may have cheated with a “device” to help her play poker.
“We fully understand the magnitude of the situation and the allegations. We take this very seriously,” the casino said in a statement.
“At this point, we have no evidence or any indication of any wrongdoing, other than the allegations made by the parties involved.”
Adelstein has appeared more than 50 times on the casino’s livestreamed show and is the top player, winning over $1.6 million.
In contrast, Lew has only appeared twice and has amassed just over $100k in winnings.
Adelstein has appeared on the casino’s livestreamed show more than 50 times, winning more than $1.6 million
Lew has only appeared in the online poker game twice and has amassed just over $100k in winnings
Poker isn’t the only table game to be rocked by accusations of cheating.
Last week, Magnus Carlsen, the world’s No. 1 chess player, was accused of “damaging” the game after sensationally resigning from a match against a fellow grandmaster after making one move over fears his rival used anal beads to cheat.
In a statement last Friday, the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), Arkady Dvorkovich, said he was unhappy with Carlsen’s behavior in withdrawing from the Sinquefield Cup and his match against his 19-year-old opponent, Hans. Niemann, to stop.
The dismissal came amid rumors that Neimann was cheating on him with a vibrating anal sex toy.
Addressing the world Carlsen, Dvorkovich said the 31-year-old Norwegian has a “moral responsibility” because he is “seen as a global ambassador for the game.”
He has now declined to say in an interview whether he believes Niemann cheated on both of their games
‘His actions affect the reputation of his colleagues, sporty’ [sport-related] results, and can end up damaging our game. We are convinced that there were better ways to deal with this situation,” he said.
The statement didn’t “specify” what situation they were referring to, though it’s likely the sensational anal beading claim that Neimann has denied.
He is accused of using a vibrating, remote-controlled sex toy to gain an advantage over Carlsen by having an accomplice buzz the device to help him make better moves.
The president said the game’s governing body is looking to create a group of “specialists” who will eradicate cheating from FIDE events.
“FIDE is ready to task its Fair Play Committee with a thorough investigation into the incident,” Dvorkovich said.
The chess body boss said more evidence would be needed before such an investigation could begin.
Carlsen poses with the FIDE World Chess Championship trophy, at the Dubai Expo 2020 in the Emirate of Golf, on December 12, 2021
Chess genius, Hans Niemann, 19, (pictured) lost in the quarterfinals of the Julius Baer Generation Cup on Thursday. The teen has been accused of cheating in a variety of different and imaginative ways, including using vibrating anal beads to communicate with his coach