Ye Shen (aka Tony Mars) denies all allegations of cheating a buck private Southern CA stove poker mettlesome out of $3M. The charges were leveled past fellow salamander pros Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot and John Wesley “Wes Side” Fei on X/Twitter this weekend.
According to the “Hustler Casino Live” watercourse regulars, Shen brought a trick identity card deck to a recreational common soldier biz inwards Yorba Linda, Calif. for about a year. Shen’s beautify supposedly allowed him to ensure through the cards, presumptively with the help of special contact lens lenses,
“I’m penning this statement to exercise set the tape consecutive on some off-key accusations that in person damaged my reputation,” Shen wrote inwards a statement to Poker News. “I experience won and lost immense amounts legion(p) times inward my salamander career, but i have never cheated in a game, and i have always paid when i lost.”
Marked Difference of Opinion
“After a game, we found a cheating deck,” Fei told Poker News, stating his belief that Shen and ii of his associates had brought it. “The floor is a rattling salutary cheating bedight that you can’t find. But we went to a really dour way and we used a dark visible light and and then you put up assure the numbers on the rear of the deck.”
In his statement to PokerNews, Shen wrote: “I didn’t get any cards anywhere.” To endorse his claim, he wrote that “since we are playing at Yorba, there was no more demand for me to convey cards because they feature multiple decks on that point at the game.”
Shen continued: “When I arrived at the game, thither was 6-7 people already sitting at the table. So in that location is no more way that I could hold switched or brought cards since everyone was there.”
Wild Card
More to the point, Shen claimed that the real cheater came forrad to him trio weeks after the game.
“One of the players who went rearwards to PRC confessed to me on the phone and said he was sorry for all of the players blaming me,” Shen wrote. “He went on to recite me he switched the cards because he was losing so a great deal recently.”
The cheat’s public figure is Sun, according Shen, who said that after he received the confession, “I went flat to the owner of the domiciliate and explained everything.” Shen added that “two other people other than me canful sustain this.”
Harboring spoiled blood around beingness accused, Shen added that believes Fei accused him because he “is broke, desperate, and tries to not pay off the money he owes me.”