{"id":301828,"date":"2023-12-05T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T21:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=301828"},"modified":"2023-12-09T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:58:41","slug":"accused-poker-cheater-denies-all-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/accused-poker-cheater-denies-all-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused Poker Cheater Denies All Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ye Shen (aka Tony Mars) denies all allegations of cheating a private Southern California poker game out of $3M. The charges were leveled by fellow poker pros Nikhil \u201cNik Airball\u201d Arcot and Wesley \u201cWes Side\u201d Fei on X\/Twitter<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

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Ye Shen, aka Tony Mars, has issued a statement declaring that he has never cheated in a poker game. (Image: Top Poker Streamers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the \u201cHustler Casino Live\u201d stream regulars, Shen brought a trick card deck<\/a> to a recreational private game in Yorba Linda, Calif. for about a year. Shen\u2019s deck supposedly allowed him to see through the cards, presumably with the help of special contact lenses,<\/p>\n

“I’m writing this statement to set the record straight on some false accusations that personally damaged my reputation,” Shen wrote in a statement to Poker News.<\/em> “I have won and lost huge amounts numerous times in my poker career, but I have never cheated in a game, and I have always paid when I lost.”<\/p>\n

Marked Difference of Opinion<\/h2>\n

\u201cAfter a game, we found a cheating deck,\u201d Fei told Poker News,<\/em> stating his belief that Shen and two of his associates had brought it. \u201cThe deck is a very good cheating deck that you can’t find. But we went to a very dark room and we used a blue light and then you can see the numbers on the back of the deck.”<\/p>\n

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In his statement to\u00a0PokerNews<\/em>, Shen wrote: “I didn’t bring any cards anywhere.\u201d To back his claim, he wrote that \u201csince we are playing at Yorba, there was no need for me to bring cards because they have multiple decks there at the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Shen continued: \u201cWhen I arrived at the game, there was 6-7 people already sitting at the table. So there is no way that I could have switched or brought cards since everyone was there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wild Card<\/h2>\n

More to the point, Shen claimed that the real cheater came forward to him three weeks after the game.<\/p>\n

One of the players who went back to China confessed to me on the phone and said he was sorry for all of the players blaming me,\u201d Shen wrote. \u201cHe went on to tell me he switched the cards because he was losing so much recently.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The cheat\u2019s name is Sun, according to Shen, who said that after he received the confession, \u201cI went directly to the owner of the house and explained everything.\u201d Shen added that \u201ctwo other people other than me can confirm this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harboring bad blood about being accused, Shen added that believes Fei accused him because he \u201cis broke, desperate, and tries to not pay the money he owes me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ye Shen (aka Tony Mars) denies all allegations of cheating a private Southern California poker game out of $3M. The charges were leveled by fellow poker pros Nikhil \u201cNik Airball\u201d Arcot and Wesley \u201cWes Side\u201d Fei on X\/Twitter this weekend. According to the \u201cHustler Casino Live\u201d stream regulars, Shen brought a trick card deck to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":301829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,83771,14,84511],"tags":[85784,87874,81975,89045,89043,81907,89042,89044,88996],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAccused Poker Cheater Denies All Allegations - Casino.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ye Shen (aka Tony Mars) denies all allegations of cheating a private Southern California poker game out of $3M. 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