Dan Bilzerian accused Dan Cates of cheating in a high-stakes private poker game played on a mobile app between wealthy businessmen.
On Saturday night, millionaire poker enthusiast Bill Perkins tweeted that he was cheated in a presumably high-stakes game that would “make the Mike Postle scandal look like a church service.” He said that the scandal involved players that “you would call poker heroes.”
Perikins’ initial tweet sparked curiosity and popcorn gifs from many in the poker community as theories around the situation began to spread.
Cheating scandal in poker going on that would make the Mike Postle scandal look like a church service. Really hard to wrap my head around. I’m very disappointed in many people. Some you would call poker heroes. 1 person/pro showed integrity others failed miserably #POKER
— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) May 24, 2020
At first, Perkins wouldn’t give any more detail than that. Just that he was cheated by a top tier poker pro. He spent several hours responding to players who wanted Perkins to reveal more, if for no other reason than to save fellow poker players from being cheated by the same person.
What is this crap teaser? Can’t understand why you would leave it at that. Anyone else that gets cheated from here out can thank you for this useless warning.
— Tim Reilly (@TimReillyPoker) May 24, 2020
Tell us, Bill we need it. You must.
— ralph massey (@TheSilverStash) May 24, 2020
How you gonna do us like this? After everything weve been through? pic.twitter.com/IIlZu10lBY
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) May 24, 2020
Eventually, he said that Jason Koon was the one player who showed integrity and alerted Perkins to the scandal. And that a separate player confessed to cheating.
On Sunday, Perkins elaborated further, saying that the game was private and played on a mobile app. A top pro was playing on one of the accounts in exchange for a piece of the profit. A form of cheating commonly called “ghosting.”
The majority of mobile poker apps on the market right now do not facilitate real money gaming. Any payments made to players must be made outside of the app based on play money balances.
Perkins was alerted to the situation by Koon, who allegedly turned down the opportunity to ghost the account, which eventually led to one of the ghosters confessing to Perkins.
Perkins agreed to keep the name private in exchange for more information about who was involved. In a subsequent tweet, Perkins said that it was a “Top 7 player” that was cheating the game.
I have been permission to say that @JasonKoon was the pro who was tempted and acted in integrity. I’ve always like Jason and now I love him. So you can stop speculating about him. I’m still in investigative mode and not ready to discuss. As I said hard to wrap my head around. https://t.co/HoUiPDs7BR
— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) May 24, 2020
Settlement w/ 1 participant gave my word I would not Publicly reveal UNLESS they lied during questions
Game: Private
App: download for friends
Cheating: pros playing for fish account (so far)
Participants #: unknown now
Investigation: Ongoing
Evidence: confession/physical https://t.co/HoUiPDs7BR— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) May 24, 2020
Top 7 pro in the world for sure and now completely obliterated my trust AFTER the confession. I’ll never play a game or tournament with him until this is rectified.
— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) May 25, 2020
On Monday afternoon, Dan Bilzerian put a couple of names to the situation when he tweeted that Sina Taleb allowed Cates to play on Taleb’s account against Bilzerian, Perkins and others. The tweet included a picture of Saleb and blurred out contact information. Taleb is an unknown to the poker world without a documented tournament cash.
This cocksucker Sina Taleb cheated me,
bp22</a> and others outta money on Fun Ocean poker app by having <a href="https://twitter.com/junglemandan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">junglemandan play on his account pic.twitter.com/lvysYyd9x8— Dan Bilzerian (@DanBilzerian) May 25, 2020
Cates, however, is touted as one of the best players on the planet and regularly plays in the biggest cash games in the world. He also has just shy of $7.4 million in tournament earnings.
He responded to Bilzerian’s accusation by saying it was “misleading” and that he has never played a hand of poker with Bilzerian but couldn’t dive into the issue any further because of legal reasons.
I can’t discuss this right now for legal reasons but this is misleading, I haven’t played a hand of poker with @DanBilzerian ever lol. More to come when appropriate but there was rampant ghosted on the site that people have admitted to.
— Daniel Cates (@junglemandan) May 25, 2020
Perkins showed up in the responses to Bilzerian’s tweet and said that he had high-level attorneys advising him on his next step.
Perkins also walked back the comparison to the Postle situation, noting that he only made that comparison because of the amount of money at stake in his game was much more than what Postle is accused of cheating players out of.
source https://casinonewsblogger.com/dan-bilzerian-accuses-poker-pro-dan-cates-of-cheating-in-high-stakes-private-game/
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