Pro poker star Martin Kabrhel is being investigated amid claims he cheated during a
World Series of Poker event which 9️⃣ forced entrants to pay aR$250,000 buy-in.
Footage
shows Kabrhel, 40, get called out by fellow poker star Dan Smith after he 9️⃣ was
eliminated on June 18.
Smith, who placed sixth, acknowledges other players at the table
by saying his goodbyes when he 9️⃣ leaves Kabrhel hanging in the wind.
“Your antics are the
worst of anyone I’ve ever played with,” Smith says to Kabrhel 9️⃣ after being eliminated by
him with a pair of sixes.
“Good luck most of you. I hope you get barred (banned),”
9️⃣ Smith directs to Kabrhel.
Kabrhel finished third and took home aR$2.3 million prize
from the Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em event, 9️⃣ which was dubbed the “biggest buy-in
of the summer” and started with a record 69 entrants.
The awkward moment went viral 9️⃣ on
social media after other professional players came to Smith’s defense — some claiming
Kabrhel has a history of “marking 9️⃣ cards.”
“Dan is 100% right. Martin should be banned.
He has a history of repeatedly marking cards to try to cheat 9️⃣ and everyone in the high
roller community knows it…,” fuming poker player Hayley Hanna tweeted.
“Not only that
but Martin makes 9️⃣ the experience unpleasant by being rude, yelling in peoples ears
nonstop, taking full time when he knows he’s folding, standing 9️⃣ over people to “see
their stack” when he’s clearly trying to angle,” she continues.
3 Dan Smith is seen
calling out 9️⃣ Martin Kabrhel before exiting the game. PokerGo
Andrew Robl, a professional
poker player out of Michigan, also called out Kabrhel — 9️⃣ saying he’s seen him “mark
cards in every tournament” he’s played him in.
“He makes any tournament no fun for
anyone 9️⃣ and on top of it I’ve seen him mark cards in every tournament I’ve ever played
with him,” he tweeted.
Marking 9️⃣ cards is a cheating method used in card games, where a
player alters cards so that they know what their 9️⃣ opponent is holding.
3 Martin Kabrhel
finished third and took home aR$2.3 million prize from the Super High Roller No-Limit
Hold’em 9️⃣ event. PokerGo
World Series of Poker took heed to the heated incident on video
and later issued a statement in regards 9️⃣ to the matter.
“While we do not discuss
specific security protocols used to monitor players and gaming equipment, the integrity
of 9️⃣ the game remains paramount and we can assure fellow patrons that we are taking these
allegations very seriously,” WSOP said 9️⃣ in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“As this is an ongoing investigation, there is no further comment on 9️⃣ the matter at this
time.”
Kabrhel defended himself in a series of tweets, saying he was “shocked” over the
cheating allegations.
3 9️⃣ Martin Kabrhel was accused by another player of marking cards
in every tournament he’s played in. PokerGo
The 40-year-old also noted 9️⃣ he’s taking
legal action against Smith and Kobl and other players who allege cheating including
Chance Kornuth and Justin Bonomo, 9️⃣ citing defamation.
“On behalf of yesterday situation
I feel necessary to speak up,” he tweeted. “@Andrew_Robl yesterday posted on twitter an
9️⃣ accusation that I’m marking cards and cheating in poker tournaments. I was shocked by
how quickly people took it as 9️⃣ true, pure statement with no evidence and started media
blizzard in which I am portrayed as cheater.
Kabrhel, the Czech Republic 9️⃣ veteran who
has two bracelets from World Series of Poker Europe tournaments, has a total live
earnings ofR$11,703,313.
His payout from 9️⃣ Sunday was his second-biggest ever, according
to Bleacher Report.
