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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:

Some other screenshots:

And the standing:

Then: Dan Smith, when eliminated, called out the player: “Good luck, most of you. Hope you get barred. … Your antics are the worst.”

Smith had more to say, which included questioning some “not kosher” things that he saw:

Like Smith said: We don’t know for sure. But there are a lot of fingers being pointed.

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