The cheating scandal rocking poker world takes $15,000 theft twist

Garrett Adelstein and Robbi Jade Lew are in the middle of poker's biggest controversy.
Garrett Adelstein and Robbi Jade Lew are in the course of poker’s largest controversy.
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Someway, the Robbi Jade Lew-Garrett Adelstein scandal diving the poker world simply received weirder.

An inside investigation performed by Hustler On line casino Stay — which streamed the sport from Los Angeles — has proven that certainly one of their Excessive Stakes Poker Productions staff stole three $5,000 chips from Lew’s stack after the printed concluded on Sept. 29.

The worker, Bryan Sagbigsal, was terminated from his place after he admitted to taking $15,000 in chips from Lew’s stack, HCL’s homeowners Nick Vertucci and Ryan Feldman stated in evaluation findings. It’s unclear what job Sagbigsal held with HCL.

The findings add to a saga that been occurring for every week. It began with a $269,000 hand that ended with Lew calling Adelstein with simply Jack excessive. Adelstein, who had the seven and eight of golf equipment, flopped straight and flush attracts however didn’t enhance on the flip or river. Lew’s name was weird, although, contemplating the small variety of fingers she may have overwhelmed.

In a prolonged assertion on Twitter final week, Adelstein accused Lew of dishonest throughout the recreation. Lew gave again the $135,000 to Adelstein after he initially made the accusations on the on line casino. Adelstein is likely one of the prime streaming gamers on the planet, whereas Lew is newer to the sport and significantly stakes of this measurement.

Lew stated in a tweet that Adelstein “cornered [her] and threatened [her],” after she was “pulled out of the sport and compelled to talk to him in a darkish hallway.”

The $15,000 price of chips taken by Sagbigsal was seen as some as him taking his minimize of a dishonest rip-off.

In a separate assertion on Thursday, Lew instructed PokerNews.com, that Vertucci referred to as her to share the information of the incident and HCL’s investigation.

Lew stated she selected to not press fees in opposition to Sagbigsal as a result of she believes it's “pointless to wreck a younger man’s life,” including that she “couldn't recall having met the worker.”

Lew stated she was notified that the worker “had already spent the $15k, at which level transferring ahead with a legal cost made even much less sense to me.”

Gardena police stated, and not using a sufferer, they don't intend to pursue a legal prosecution presently, per the HCL assertion.

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