Ye “Tony Mars” Shen has been accused of dishonest a non-public Southern California poker recreation out of hundreds of thousands. Fellow poker professionals Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot and Wesley “Wes Facet” Fei made their allegations on X/Twitter this weekend.
Ye “Tony Mars” Shen performs throughout a current ‘Hustler On line casino Stay’ stream. (Picture: pokerstrategy.com)
In accordance with the “Hustler On line casino Stay” stream regulars, Shen introduced a trick card deck to a leisure personal recreation in Yorba Linda, Calif., the place Arcot, Fei, and different buddies performed with blinds of $25/$50 and $50/$100.
Shen’s deck supposedly allowed him to see by means of the playing cards, presumably with the assistance of particular contact lenses, in accordance with the unsubstantiated allegations. For a couple of 12 months, Shen supposedly gained simply over $3 million utilizing this deck.
After a recreation, we discovered a dishonest deck,” Wesley informed Poker Information, which broke the story. “The deck is an excellent dishonest deck that you would be able to’t discover. However we went to a really darkish room and we used a blue gentle after which you’ll be able to see the numbers on the again of the deck.”
Shen himself gained about $1.6M, in accordance with Wesley. Nevertheless, alongside along with his deck, he additionally delivered to the video games two co-conspirators whose winnings totaled $1.5M.
Wesley informed Poker Information that he has misplaced a complete of $1M within the twice-weekly recreation, which he final attended in October. On X/Twitter, Arcot posted that he too was cheated out of $1M by “somebody who I assumed was a detailed pal of mine.”
“All particulars and what not might be launched quickly in additional digestible format,” Arcot posted on Sunday.
Shen Denies Dishonest
In accordance with Wesley, after being confronted with the proof, Shen admitted that the deck was marked. Nevertheless, he denied dishonest with it.
It’s a particular deck and he admitted the deck has an issue,” Wesley mentioned. Wesley mentioned Shen informed him he didn’t know who introduced the deck to the sport.
“Mars mentioned, ‘Possibly you’re shedding and also you don’t wish to pay, so that you’re altering the deck,’” Wesley informed Poker Information. “If we’re dishonest, how can we lose?”
These allegations don’t have anything to do with “Hustler On line casino Stay,” which remains to be smarting over its personal poker dishonest scandal final 12 months.
Shen has but to acknowledge the allegations by way of his X/Twitter account, @Marsback2earth.
