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 »
It seems that poker cannot exist unless it has some sort of controversy going on. The 2023 World Series of Poker was highlighted by the win in the $10,000 Championship Event by Daniel Weinman, but it also showed its seedy side. Admitted poker cheater Ali Imsirovic made a return to the tables at this year’s… Read more »
In reality, it was never a battle. In way less time than the parameters of the match dictated, poker professional Matt Berkey was able to crush Nik ‘Airball’ Arcot in a heads-up cash game battle. The final verdict? Berkey walked away from the “fight” with more than a million dollars and Arcot left with more… Read more »
The world of “high roller” poker was eventually going to reach this point. $250,000 buy-ins for a tournament are not enough – how about a million (The Big One for One Drop at the WSOP)? Now the cash games are going that route, with twelve players with either deep pockets or deep skills stepping into… Read more »
