Another live stream cheating scandal
In the wake of Postlegate a player has been caught looking at another player's cards during a high stakes streamed cash game.
After the way the Mike Postle story was forensically examined by the poker community, which led to him being a pariah in the industry and the ensuing legal battles costing him dearly, one would think nobody would attempt anything like it again on a live streamed poker game.
That was not the case during a $10/$20/$40 No Limit game streamed this week on the Hustler Casino Live channel. Viewers started to comment in the live chat that a player known as 'SkillsRocks' was clearly trying to look at the cards of the player to his left Barry Wallace. There were lots of alleged incidents which you can see yourself in the video at the bottom of this article at the 3:57:04, 4:00:06 and 4:02:19 mark.
A more damning hand at the 4:05:50 mark sees SkillsRocks fold top two pair when Barry turns a straight. He also kicks the player to his right, which some saw as a sign of collusion to indicate Barry had a big hand. After the hand SkillsRocks takes his two folded cards away from the playing area to gloat to Barry about his big fold.
In another hand we can see him move Barry's sunglasses on the table, allowing him a better view of his cards. You can see all the major controversies in the video below:
Caught during the live stream
The live stream was on a lengthy delay and the game was over when the stream commentators heard about the accusations. Cell phones are also banned from the tables and commentary booth, in a direct response to the Mike Postle scandal:
Hustler Casino responded quickly by banning SkillsRocks from their streamed games. In their statement below they revealed SkillsRocks admitted what he did was unethical.
Our statement on last night’s show pic.twitter.com/FzpZz8M7Ul
— Hustler Casino Live (@HCLPokerShow) February 3, 2022
Legally speaking looking at another player's cards is not a form of cheating and has never been prosecuted in a court of law. This is because it is the player's responsibility to protect their cards at all time, something Barry Wallace should have done.
However, this is undeniably cheating within the confines of the game and should be stamped out hard. It is perplexing that somebody chose to do it during a live stream where at the time of writing over 90,000 people have watched it.
Was this clear cut cheating in your eyes? Let us know in the comments:
