Three people at the JokerStars Poker Room in Houston learned that all it takes is a little access to be able to run a poker cheating scheme. They also learned that there are security cameras everywhere. On Sunday, an employee of the club and two of his friends were caught using technology to scam their… Read more »
A long time coming A woman has been arrested for allegedly colluding with a table game dealer at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas in 2023. According to KLAS, Yuk Wong faces five felony counts of cheating at a gambling game and one felony count of conspiring to cheat at a gambling game. The Nevada Gaming… Read more »
Despite falling squarely in a gray area of the law, poker rooms are becoming increasingly popular in Texas, as is evidenced by the inaugural Texas Poker Open that just completed. With that fuzziness, though, can come problems. Recently, poker players have accused Legends Poker Room in Houston of rigging decks in cash games. The latest… Read more »
Tough to miss Just before the turn of the new year, a new cheating scandal was unearthed by players at GGPoker. Fortunately, it did not appear to be widespread and did not last anywhere close to as long as the “superuser” sprees of over a decade and a half ago on UltimateBet and Absolute Poker,… Read more »
NOTE: This article was originally published on Tuesday, December 5, but was inadvertently deleted after some IT migration. The latest scandal in the poker world involves Nik Airball, Wesley Fei, and Ye “Mars” Shen, all of whom play on the Hustler Casino Live stream. Over the weekend, Airball and Fei accused Mars of introducing marked… Read more »
When you mix millions of dollars with poker players who seek the limelight, you are bound to have a poker scandal at some point. So it’s poker scandal time. On Sunday, high stakes cash game live stream personality Nik Airball tweeted that he found out that someone he considered a “close friend” had cheating him… Read more »
If you’re been around the online poker world for any length of time, you have probably heard of the myriad of ways that people believe cheating is done (rightfully or wrongly). The last person you would think would make accusations of malfeasance would be one of the top pros in the game who cut his… Read more »
I am not one to ride the gossip train, so while I read about Bill Perkins accusing some unnamed poker pro of cheating in an online home game and then Dan Bilzerian calling someone out by name, I decided not to write about it because the whole thing still felt very “rumory” to me. Just… Read more »
