Mods I think this deserves it's own thread in NVG. Others have had dedicated threads for less, especially with less history.
At this stage it just appears to be allegations but pretty severe allegations. But with a past like Sorel's there may just be weight to these accusations.
From MTTc thread
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61...7/index23.html
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Originally Posted by StillDoingIt
Sorel Mizzi final tabled the most recent WCOOP event under the name bindernutnut. Karma prevailed and he eventually finished 9th. Speculation that he was using multiple accounts is not yet confirmed nor is the speculation that he has been doing this for a long time has been confirmed yet.
He played the tournament from his place in Las Vegas using a VPN.
Perhaps the most shocking part of the story is that one of his best friends Rory Brown also final tabled the event and Sorel spoke with him about strategy in the final table and offered to help him out both before the final table started and live.
London Royals manager and PokerStars pro Liv Boeree knew all about this and is one of the people on Sorels side (not telling her employers PokerStars) and putting it down to mental problems on Sorels side. Many other pros know about this and it has been gossip within the high stakes circles in Las Vegas for the last months.
Antonio Esfandiari and other former friends of Sorel have turned on him and asked him to repay all debts.
All of the above is factual, the suggestions that he has always continued to multi account playing via VPNs and betrayed more of his friends is simply unconfirmed speculation.
It would not surprise me if he has multiple accounts in today's Sunday majors. I think Liv should be pushed to make this public to PokerStars and the money won on this confirmed (to her and others) and other accounts that he is using should be confiscated.
I will not make another post on the subject.
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Originally Posted by StillDoingIt
There is no "proof". Liv knew all along and when it got out she defended him and was on his side.
It is common knowledge in the high stakes community. You won't see him at any super high rollers, the guys who were buying pieces in him have completely written him off, he owed a lot of money and sold his place in Vegas to pay back all the debts he has from complete degeneracy. Antonio put the word out when he found out about this.
By the way this was the WCOOP main event, he cashed over 100,000 on this account and who knows how much on other accounts. Since this came out he doesn't have a single cash on Hendon Mob and I guess he didn't go to PCA to play the high rollers there. Anybody who is anybody knows they are the softest tournaments on the year for high rollers. Last year he came 4th in the $100k.
If you check his Twitter he has close to zero tweets between November-February. In February he made a post "new goal - no more drugs".
I have no idea how he does he but he has a system to play on multiple accounts from the States. He won 6 figures and Liv knows about this. I think Stars should treat this with very high importance. It came out after his life time ban on PokerStars/Full Tilt that he was playing on 6+ accounts (Full Tilt employee posted this was true in the thread where he was cheating people at Chinese poker)
Liv response to this is quite laughable. "Post burning man schizophrenia" you can't make this up.
As far as I know Rory (Mr Kingball - 6th place finisher) spoke to Sorel before the final table and explained his reads/strategy on all players including Sorel (he didn't k ow it was Sorel of course) but didn't allow him to see his screen while the final table ran)
He found out afterwards and is obviously extremely pissed about it.
Their should be extreme pressure put on Stars to make the lifetime ban lifetime as well as doing an investigation into what Liv knew and knows.
As most would know Sorel has a history with not only multi-accounting but also directly cheating other players in person.
Zangbean24 Account banned
Sorel bottom dealing John Racener at PCA
He was once (multiple times) forgiven by the poker community for his misgivings. I for one hope he won't be this time if this is in fact all true
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