During the episode, the panel discussed the role of regulation in poker, and whether regulation is a barrier to how online poker should run. Negreanu said that the obvious goal for online poker is. This isn't even close to the biggest cheating scandal poker has had this century. In 2007, players on the site Absolute Poker complained of accounts that were playing so perfectly they had to be. The three-time WSOP bracelet winner also said ghosting always happens on apps anyway. The person to eventually name names was Instagram King and high-stakes gambler Dan Bilzerian. He said that the player at the center of the scandal was high stakes poker pro Dan 'Jungleman' Cates. To be clear, I am not quitting poker, just shifting focus unless big opportunities or games come.' Jungleman's Thoughts on the Ghosting Scandal. Recently, amateur poker player and millionaire Bill Perkins tweeted about being the victim of a ghosting scandal. He was playing on a third-party app with other businessmen.or so he thought.
With over $4 million in winnings, the 24 year old Sorel Mizzi is indeed one of the games rising stars having amassed his fortune on both the live and the online arena.
However, the young Canadian pro has had to deal with a whole load of controversy along the way and has admitted to cheating, as well as having been cheated during his brief but spectacular career.
A year and a half ago, Mizzi famously lost around half a million dollars to card cheats in Monte Carlo.
Before then in December 2007, however, Mizzi was embroiled in a cheating scandal at Full Tilt poker in which he took over play of a friends account in the middle of an online tournament. Despite then winning the event, Mizzi was disqualified and his friend and senior editor of Bluff Magazine Chris Vaughn lost his job from the magazine.
Now in the latest piece of unwelcome news to hit the beleaguered poker pro, Sorel Mizzi recently came under scrutiny from the poker community, after a discussion thread allegedly involving Mizzi and Steve 'Thorladen' Weinstein appeared on the TwoPlusTwo forum, in which they discussed a high tech method of cheating during online tournaments.
The method involved using a remote PC access programs to access computers in different locations, which would 'revolutionizes teaching/ghosting in poker (and) can also be used for multi-accounting.'
Responding to the allegations made against him, Mizzi dismissed the alleged conversation as the work of a criminal who had tried to blackmail him in return for not releasing the forged transcript. As he explains in a TwoPlusTwo forum statement:
'Late last year, I got a message from the extortionist threatening to release what he had fabricated if I didn't send him money online. I chose to completely ignore the threats.'
Sorel Mizzi concluded his response by stating; 'NOBODY in the history of online poker has had their reputation unfairly tainted more than I have.'
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 didn't feel good. But now we at least have some confirmation of what went on, so let's take a quick look.
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Bill Perkins pulls the pin
It started with a tweet by high stakes amateur and well-respected poker player, Bill Perkins on Saturday, May 23. He wrote that there was a 'Cheating scandal in poker going on that would make the Mike Postle scandal look like a church service.'
(Coincidentally, I just told my daughter about the UltimateBet/Absolute Poker superuser scandal yesterday. I wonder what this looks like compared to what Perkins is talking about.)
People gave Perkins flack for lobbing that grenade out into the world only to leave everyone hanging. He eventually said that he agreed with one of the game's participants to not reveal the name unless they 'lied during questions.' He added that it was a private game played via an app and that there were multiple poker pros playing on a 'fish' account. In other words, top-flight players were either directly playing on a recreational player's account or 'ghosting,' which is advising/instructing someone on how to play their hands.
Later, Dan Bilzerian tweeted that it was Dan 'Jungleman' Cates who 'cheated me, @bp22 [Perkins] and others outta money on Fun Ocean poker app' by playing on someone named Sina Taleb's account.
Bilzerian later deleted the tweet and that's where things had stood since the weekend.
Cates comes clean
Then, on Wednesday, Cates copped to ghosting. In a statement posted on Google Docs, he said he delayed responding for legal and financial reasons before going on to admit that he played 'with' Sina (Taleb is apparently not his last name) on May 8 for 'very few sessions.' He added that Bilzerian was not in the games in question.
Cates continued:
With over $4 million in winnings, the 24 year old Sorel Mizzi is indeed one of the games rising stars having amassed his fortune on both the live and the online arena.
However, the young Canadian pro has had to deal with a whole load of controversy along the way and has admitted to cheating, as well as having been cheated during his brief but spectacular career.
A year and a half ago, Mizzi famously lost around half a million dollars to card cheats in Monte Carlo.
Before then in December 2007, however, Mizzi was embroiled in a cheating scandal at Full Tilt poker in which he took over play of a friends account in the middle of an online tournament. Despite then winning the event, Mizzi was disqualified and his friend and senior editor of Bluff Magazine Chris Vaughn lost his job from the magazine.
Now in the latest piece of unwelcome news to hit the beleaguered poker pro, Sorel Mizzi recently came under scrutiny from the poker community, after a discussion thread allegedly involving Mizzi and Steve 'Thorladen' Weinstein appeared on the TwoPlusTwo forum, in which they discussed a high tech method of cheating during online tournaments.
The method involved using a remote PC access programs to access computers in different locations, which would 'revolutionizes teaching/ghosting in poker (and) can also be used for multi-accounting.'
Responding to the allegations made against him, Mizzi dismissed the alleged conversation as the work of a criminal who had tried to blackmail him in return for not releasing the forged transcript. As he explains in a TwoPlusTwo forum statement:
'Late last year, I got a message from the extortionist threatening to release what he had fabricated if I didn't send him money online. I chose to completely ignore the threats.'
Sorel Mizzi concluded his response by stating; 'NOBODY in the history of online poker has had their reputation unfairly tainted more than I have.'
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 didn't feel good. But now we at least have some confirmation of what went on, so let's take a quick look.
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Bill Perkins pulls the pin
It started with a tweet by high stakes amateur and well-respected poker player, Bill Perkins on Saturday, May 23. He wrote that there was a 'Cheating scandal in poker going on that would make the Mike Postle scandal look like a church service.'
(Coincidentally, I just told my daughter about the UltimateBet/Absolute Poker superuser scandal yesterday. I wonder what this looks like compared to what Perkins is talking about.)
People gave Perkins flack for lobbing that grenade out into the world only to leave everyone hanging. He eventually said that he agreed with one of the game's participants to not reveal the name unless they 'lied during questions.' He added that it was a private game played via an app and that there were multiple poker pros playing on a 'fish' account. In other words, top-flight players were either directly playing on a recreational player's account or 'ghosting,' which is advising/instructing someone on how to play their hands.
Later, Dan Bilzerian tweeted that it was Dan 'Jungleman' Cates who 'cheated me, @bp22 [Perkins] and others outta money on Fun Ocean poker app' by playing on someone named Sina Taleb's account.
Bilzerian later deleted the tweet and that's where things had stood since the weekend.
Cates comes clean
Then, on Wednesday, Cates copped to ghosting. In a statement posted on Google Docs, he said he delayed responding for legal and financial reasons before going on to admit that he played 'with' Sina (Taleb is apparently not his last name) on May 8 for 'very few sessions.' He added that Bilzerian was not in the games in question.
Cates continued:
I played very few hands against Bill Perkins, who sat in a game I understood was rampant with professionals who were ghosting. I thought since many on the site were using pros to play for them (which was clear by the uniquely high level of play) at the time it felt acceptable for me to be playing. Unfortunately Bill got caught in the crossfire and I'm very sorry for that.
Cates did not appreciate being 'singled out' for something that others were also doing, but that he accepts 'that as a role model for the poker community my punishment should be disproportionate compared to a normal player.'
He stated that he will do his best to 'behave better in the future.' New casino in chicago il.
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Cates concluded the message thanking the friends that have stood by him, specifically thanking Nick Schulman, and saying that he hopes that he won't continue to be 'lambasted' over the internet for this.
