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