Poker cheating scandal: Martin Kabrhel under investigation for Super High Roller tournament

[iemanja]

Anyone been following the cheating scandal at the World Series of Poker?

High-stakes poker professional Martin Kabrhel is being investigated by the World Series of Poker for a potential cheating scandal during the $250,000 buy-in Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em event. The Czech Republic player finished third and pocketed a $2.3 million prize.

"While we do not discuss specific security protocols used to monitor players and gaming equipment, the integrity of the game remains paramount and we can assure fellow patrons that we are taking these allegations very seriously," WSOP said in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "As this is an ongoing investigation, there is no further comment on the matter at this time."

Kabrhel has denied cheating and said he will take legal action against Andrew Robl -- another public poker figure who suggested on social media that there has been foul play by Kabrhel in more than just this one event.

His lawyer posted a sort of legal message via tweet (because that's legally binding ) that threated to sue Justin Bonomo, Chance Kornuth, Dan Smith, and PokerGo as well as Andrew Robl.

I watched the live stream and Kabhrel was digging into the cards with his fingernails and kept standing up to look at other players' cards. He was also a colossal asshole, the worst I've ever seen in poker, way behond Phill Hellmuth or Tony G.

After Dan Smith was knocked out, he said:

"Good luck most of you. I hope you get barred," Smith said directly at Kabrhel while getting ready to leave and taking off his microphone.

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Smith was repeating something Robl had previously posted on Twitter.

Chris Brewer ended up winning the event for a prize of over $5 million. Kabrhel got third.