Mars from HCL accused of cheating Nik Airball et al. in home games (Mars statement post #87)
12-03-2023
, 09:28 PM
Ye Shen aka Mars aka Tony ran rigged games in the Chinese private high stakes scene.
Known victims:
Nik Airball lost $1 million
Wesley lost $4 million
Charles Yu lost $1 million
Taking the following from a commenter on Reddit (u/RainSC2) as the breakdown is pretty well made:
Quote:
Listening to the Twitter Spaces that Nik's talking in right now and jotted some notes:
- Cheater was Mars https://twitter.com/nikairball/statu...iedIuymDlKp4xA
- Mars' real identity is Ye Shen aka Mars and has played on HCL and for the most part beat the game and was known to crush home games, everyone knew this but liked him so he was still invited back, so him winning a bunch wasn't unexpected and let him run the scam for longer https://highrollpoker.com/tracker/players/1450 HCL results back this claim
- March to December 2023 is when the cheating took place, game ran very frequently
- Nik Airball thought of Mars as a really good friend throughout all of this
- Nik Airball cheated by Mars in Chinese private home games. Mars brought a white dealer with him that was a mechanic. Usually at chinese home games it's supposed to be all chinese dealers but Mars brought Nik Airball with him as an excuse to bring his white dealer friend in saying "we need a white dealer because we have an American guest". Nik thought this was weird because he's primarily played in Chinese private games, speaks Chinese, and doesn't care about having a Chinese dealer but also didn't care enough to speak out.
- They have text screenshots of the white dealer they caught saying "ill bring the decks" to Mars
- Nik Airball heard rumors that Mars was involved in many cheating rings in China, and that in the mainland he can't get a game because of his reputation as a cheat.
- Mars apparently lost $1.5 million in baccarat in Vegas over the past year, so he told Nik Airball that he can't pay him back. Airball knows his losses in baccarat are true but also Nik knows that Mars just bought a $2.2 million house as well as has multiple properties across the U.S. worth at minimum $500k each. AKA he's hiding money that he can pay back victims with but doesnt want to
- Charles and Wes both scammed too
- Charles played the Mars game with Airball and after losing -$50k which is not a significant amount to Charles, he left the game early and then called Airball and told him "GTFO there's cheating there". Airball didn't believe him and kept playing, then proceeded to lose a **** ton of money to preflop coolers, set over set, boat over boat.
- Jamie Gold cheated LA rigged private games for years with an Italian guy named Peter Peruso, and then disappeared. This was brought up in convo as the second coming of something like that but instead with Mars.
- Cheater was Mars https://twitter.com/nikairball/statu...iedIuymDlKp4xA
- Mars' real identity is Ye Shen aka Mars and has played on HCL and for the most part beat the game and was known to crush home games, everyone knew this but liked him so he was still invited back, so him winning a bunch wasn't unexpected and let him run the scam for longer https://highrollpoker.com/tracker/players/1450 HCL results back this claim
- March to December 2023 is when the cheating took place, game ran very frequently
- Nik Airball thought of Mars as a really good friend throughout all of this
- Nik Airball cheated by Mars in Chinese private home games. Mars brought a white dealer with him that was a mechanic. Usually at chinese home games it's supposed to be all chinese dealers but Mars brought Nik Airball with him as an excuse to bring his white dealer friend in saying "we need a white dealer because we have an American guest". Nik thought this was weird because he's primarily played in Chinese private games, speaks Chinese, and doesn't care about having a Chinese dealer but also didn't care enough to speak out.
- They have text screenshots of the white dealer they caught saying "ill bring the decks" to Mars
- Nik Airball heard rumors that Mars was involved in many cheating rings in China, and that in the mainland he can't get a game because of his reputation as a cheat.
- Mars apparently lost $1.5 million in baccarat in Vegas over the past year, so he told Nik Airball that he can't pay him back. Airball knows his losses in baccarat are true but also Nik knows that Mars just bought a $2.2 million house as well as has multiple properties across the U.S. worth at minimum $500k each. AKA he's hiding money that he can pay back victims with but doesnt want to
- Charles and Wes both scammed too
- Charles played the Mars game with Airball and after losing -$50k which is not a significant amount to Charles, he left the game early and then called Airball and told him "GTFO there's cheating there". Airball didn't believe him and kept playing, then proceeded to lose a **** ton of money to preflop coolers, set over set, boat over boat.
- Jamie Gold cheated LA rigged private games for years with an Italian guy named Peter Peruso, and then disappeared. This was brought up in convo as the second coming of something like that but instead with Mars.
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