Ye Shen (aka Tony Mars) denies all allegations of dishonest a personal Southern California poker recreation out of $3M. The fees had been leveled by fellow poker professionals Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot and Wesley “Wes Aspect” Fei on X/Twitter this weekend.
Ye Shen, aka Tony Mars, has issued an announcement declaring that he has by no means cheated in a poker recreation. (Picture: Prime Poker Streamers)
In accordance with the “Hustler On line casino Stay” stream regulars, Shen introduced a trick card deck to a leisure non-public recreation in Yorba Linda, Calif. for a couple of 12 months. Shen’s deck supposedly allowed him to see by the playing cards, presumably with the assistance of particular contact lenses,
“I’m scripting this assertion to set the file straight on some false accusations that personally broken my fame,” Shen wrote in an announcement to Poker Information. “I’ve received and misplaced big quantities quite a few instances in my poker profession, however I’ve by no means cheated in a recreation, and I’ve all the time paid after I misplaced.”
Marked Distinction of Opinion
“After a recreation, we discovered a dishonest deck,” Fei instructed Poker Information, stating his perception that Shen and two of his associates had introduced it. “The deck is an excellent dishonest deck that you may’t discover. However we went to a really darkish room and we used a blue gentle after which you may see the numbers on the again of the deck.”
In his assertion to PokerNews, Shen wrote: “I didn’t carry any playing cards anyplace.” To again his declare, he wrote that “since we’re enjoying at Yorba, there was no want for me to carry playing cards as a result of they’ve a number of decks there on the recreation.”
Shen continued: “Once I arrived on the recreation, there was 6-7 folks already sitting on the desk. So there isn’t any approach that I might have switched or introduced playing cards since everybody was there.”
Wild Card
Extra to the purpose, Shen claimed that the true cheater got here ahead to him three weeks after the sport.
One of many gamers who went again to China confessed to me on the cellphone and mentioned he was sorry for all the gamers blaming me,” Shen wrote. “He went on to inform me he switched the playing cards as a result of he was dropping a lot just lately.”
The cheat’s identify is Solar, based on Shen, who mentioned that after he acquired the confession, “I went on to the proprietor of the home and defined every part.” Shen added that “two different folks apart from me can verify this.”
Harboring unhealthy blood about being accused, Shen added that believes Fei accused him as a result of he “is broke, determined, and tries to not pay the cash he owes me.”
