WSOP Scandal: Marked Cards?
- Filed under: High Stakes News, Poker, Rumors
- Date: Jun 23,2009
Marked cards bring a clear advantage to the player who can indentify them. When playing with an old set of cards with friends, without a real bet, it can be understood to some extent. However, the same happening in WSOP is unheard of.
According to Andy Bloch the card above was used in the $5,000 NLHE Shootout. It is nearly impossible to say if it’s a made by a cheater or just is a bad product. During WSOP thousands of decks are used, so it is quite likely that a bad one ends in the mix.
Some observations support the cheating
Theory that the card was marked on purpose is also one of the possibilities. Similar things have supposedly already taken place in the World series of the year. Normally the marked card risk is bigger when playing big buy-in mixed-tournaments.
For example, in the $10k Deuce to Seven Draw a player was specifically taken under supervision due to suspected marking. In some of the decks of that tournament, there was found clear marks, made with nails.
How many card frauds really take place in grand tournaments such as WSOP or EPT, is impossible to know. By a rule of thumb players are for fair play, but regrettably there seems to be a number of scammers among the gamblers.
Source: Pokerati
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