Are sellers rigging the decks at a Houston-area card room? High-stakes prop bettor and six-time WSOP bracelet winner Shaun Deeb made that allegation Wednesday after being despatched a video of what many see as some suspicious card mechanics.
“Got a pretty disgusting video from a player down here about the Legends Poker Room down in Houston,” he famous on Twitter. “Seems there were a few mechanic dealers down there. It’s not the best quality but when you see it, you won’t unsee it. Dealer isn’t actually shuffling the cards. He’s separating them back to how they want them.”
Deeb later launched a higher-quality video and went on to say {that a} flooring particular person on the property informed him that a number of sellers on the property had not too long ago been fired for deck manipulation. In the video it seems a big chuck of the deck isn’t truly combined with the opposite playing cards.
Having watched this video extra it seems to be like he was making an attempt to maintain an ace on high of the deck to cross to somebody on the desk anybody else discover that? https://t.co/64LMoDQpv2
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) May 1, 2024
While Deeb and lots of others alleged dishonest, others weren’t so certain. Some felt this will have simply been a poor or inexperienced vendor. Deeb wasn’t shopping for that the vendor was merely inexperienced.
“It’s amazing how some are taking the stance that this was legitimate shuffles or even crazier, just a bad dealer,” he stated on Twitter.
Deeb posted one other video from one other Texas poker membership as properly. This additionally appeared to point out a false shuffle with sections of the deck staying collectively with out being randomized with different playing cards as one may count on from a standard shuffle.
Another video def a diff vendor from one other Houston membership this mechanic appears lots higher and trickier I wouldn’t of observed this on the desk in any respect https://t.co/BQNBPc8Gvx
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) May 1, 2024
As to the vendor’s potential accomplices, no gamers have been singled out. While some allege the vendor was making an attempt to assist a selected participant by controlling the cardboard distribution, others speculate that the vendor was as an alternative making an attempt to set off a promotional unhealthy beat jackpot within the hopes of receiving an enormous tip.
Poker rooms in Texas have proliferated throughout the state over the past decade. The rooms typically observe a social membership mannequin, with gamers paying dues to affix every membership or hourly charges. The golf equipment are principally unregulated as playing institutions can be in different states and a few consultants within the subject nonetheless imagine the golf equipment are unlawful.
In 2018, a Louisiana vendor was accused of stacking the deck for an confederate when a $160,000 unhealthy beat jackpot was hit. The vendor and the participant had been arrested in that case.
