Poker player Martin Kabrhel dogged by cheating accusations during World Series event
Martin Kabrhel is catching a ton of heat after finishing third in the 2023 World Series of Poker $250,000 Super High Roller event that ended with a bad beat.
There was A LOT of money at stake, but even if that wasn’t the case, Kabrhel is getting accused of cheating at the table, and that’s not good. At the very least, his antics rubbed fellow players the wrong way.
There are videos circulating with people wondering if he’s marking cards. He stood up during a hand when he wasn’t supposed to. There are other images that people are picking apart to see if it’s possible that he cheated in some way.
Here’s one that’s everywhere:
Martin Kabrhel ruining cards. Change the deck @WSOP pic.twitter.com/pcP0xKC9Aq
— Hugo Lemaire (@HHHUGINHO) June 19, 2023
Some other screenshots:
5:00:00-5:04:00 Kabrhel heavily handles Ace spades during hand w/ Martirosian
5:46:08 Kabrhel leans 2x to look at Decarolis who has As before calling 3-bet with K3s
5:56:45 Kabrhel leans to look at Martirosian who has AsTd before clicking back his 3-bet on 885 flop w/ only KQo pic.twitter.com/VXIJt4nmlA— jhon (@gamiknow) June 18, 2023
And the standing:
#StandGate pic.twitter.com/nXoIlHlPO8
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) June 19, 2023
Gotem!
pic.twitter.com/f18W1DRuWv— Raouf Malek (@bgddy49) June 19, 2023
Then: Dan Smith, when eliminated, called out the player: “Good luck, most of you. Hope you get barred. … Your antics are the worst.”
Dan Smith (@DanSmithHolla) had some choice words for Martin Kabrhel (@martinkabrhell) after his elimination from the $250,000 Super High Roller Bowl.
– Watch live here: https://t.co/InAL0tkRzV pic.twitter.com/qoNU9e8qnm
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) June 19, 2023
Dan is 100% right. Martin should be banned. He has a history of repeatedly marking cards to try to cheat and everyone in the high roller community knows it. Not only that but Martin makes the experience unpleasant by being rude, yelling in peoples ears nonstop, taking full time… https://t.co/4Kw25nnL9E
— Hayley Hanna (@VegasHayls) June 19, 2023
Smith had more to say, which included questioning some “not kosher” things that he saw:
Smith followed that up with more explanation in his bustout interview with @nataliedbode here: pic.twitter.com/9HZ5gRL4hz
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) June 19, 2023
Like Smith said: We don’t know for sure. But there are a lot of fingers being pointed.