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Originally Posted by peckx063
1. Called with J4 which is crushed by all value and the majority of the bluffs but happens to be right against this one holding.
2. Lied/Changed her story about multiple things since the hand was played, including her claim that she misread her hand.
3. One of the five people who had real time access to the hole cards palmed 15k off of her stack after the stream
4. She was secretly playing at the same table as her backer
I'm not certain there was cheating, but I'm certain the facts compel me to consider it at least possible if not probable.
1. Points weakly towards cheating, but either requires them to know upcoming cards or have a really **** signaling system that signals to call in this very poor situation. It's a bad call whether it's cheating or not.
2. Points weakly towards cheating, but being flustered and not used to being in the media spotlight is just about as good an explanation.
3. Points away from cheating, imo. For any cheating theory to work, it's a factor that has to be explained away in convoluted ways why the ring wouldn't just pay him off-camera after the show, rather than a factor which supports cheating. If it's cheating, it's really bad cheating, which again, why not a bad call rather than bad cheating? Most simple explanation why this occurred on the same night is that it happens often, and thus would have been caught on any deeply investigated incident.
4. I don't think this really supports cheating or not cheating. Doing shady thing A is not evidence of shady thing B - at best it's character evidence. But wasn't he not originally supposed to play that night?