Not trying to derail this high level discussion, but the title of the thread is "Garrett Adelstein Report on Likely Cheating on Hustler Casino Live". Just because Garrett turned out to be a suspect of cheating, doesn't mean it's off topic. Nice try though.

OP, it’s clear to me that you are being cheated by the casinos. You should quit poker before you are cheated even more.

I am so sorry this happened to you.

Really.

No, really.

Really really.

Also, on a serious note, I tried to post about actual cheating that was occurring in my local casino (and the poker room management’s lack of response to such cheating) in NVG, as a PSA, and my thread was removed too. My allegations were much more specific than yours. I also wondered why my thread was deleted while the robbi garret situation was left up. I guess some accusations are less worthy than others to the powers that be.

This comparison stuff is really getting silly; I'd suggest taking it to the moderation thread if you're concerned. But DT, I'd be pretty surprised if the issue with your thread wasn't already explained to you.

Dinesh PM’d me, yes. It was to protect the alleged cheaters’ privacy and because traditionally you all want players to resolve disputes with the casino and amongst themselves and not in the forums. I don’t want to get into a debate about what differentiates my post from the garret post, although there could be privacy and private dispute resolution arguments for both, not to mention the many “xyz owes me money” threads. I’ll leave it at that since this thread is probably going to be locked anyway.

Why does a thread with vague generalities about poker in general need to be deleted?

I'm not debating the merits of this particular thread, but to me when someone starts calling out a specific business or person, that's when they should be held to the standard of providing evidence.

I do think there is some merit to allowing discussion that could eventually lead to a discovery of various cheating methods.

Ie:

"I suspect..."

Followed by a response.

"I also suspect..."

Followed by.

"At my local casino I caught someone doing XYZ in just the manner you described."

As long as no one is being slandered, what is wrong with that?

It's boring ?

I see your problem. You think everything should be fair. You don't realize that it is all controlled by George Soros and the Jews through bouncing mind control beams off of Italian satellites in order to manipulate the order of the cards.

The solution is to wear a thick layer of tin foil on your head and whip your manhood out and lay it on the rail. The tinfoil will protect against the beams and the manhood thing won't really do anything, but it will get a good laugh.

Good luck.

Not true. Biden confided in me that the Russians are behind it. It takes a web of Russian bots to control every auto-shuffler all over the country simultaneously.

But the rest of your post is true.

LOL

Tell me you like to whine without directly telling me you like to whine.

In the real world intelligent people are few and far between, and the vast majority of people can be convinced of virtually anything with a glib, vacuous argument.

In the Kingdom of the Blind, the one-eyed man likely gets sharp stick therapy.

The people being cheated in the Hustler scam are the fools that don't understand we live in an era where the point of the cheating was the publicity and the ability to monetize fame. The cheating you described likely was designed to swindle players not viewers and points out how crooked the industry can be, those that profit from it need to hide it.

I have no dog in this race and am an impartial observer, but you said it yourself. The enforcement is subjective. That's where the potential hypocrisy may be perceived by whomever party whose thread is locked under the pretense of accusations without evidence.

Sure. But the enforcement is subjective because it can be no other way, which makes it silly to call it hypocritical to close thread X while thread Y about an entirely different topic remains open. That's why I said that if someone has concerns about another thread, they should report whatever they're concerned about, or post about it in the moderation thread.

No evidence has been provided, and you know there never will.

Why does this nonsense get entertained?

Live poker is rigged.

You know who used to play a lot live? Russ Hamilton!

I rest my case.

Personally to me playing live poker sounds like poker hell but i think OP is off base and probably doesn't understand variance

Dude, it's like printing money.

Hahaha I just noticed this, almost two weeks later.

At risk of stretching this analogy even thinner, you're not being asked to prove that an airplane is able to travel from point A to point B. If anything, you're saying an airplane should NOT be able to travel from point A to point B, but because it does – which you know based on personal observation – there must be lying and cheating involved.

How is this thread still open…

lol, yeah .... but his infamous swindle was online.