Chance Kornuth has spoken out about the recent RTA cheating scandals in the online poker world. The high stakes star encouraged online poker sites to publish a list of all known cheaters.
Chance Kornuth Weighs in on Online Poker Cheating Scandals
We as the poker community have accepted the poker sites’ decisions not to expose the cheaters for too long. The perpetrators are directly stealing money from the rest of us… Enough is enough and it’s time for a thread
— Chance Kornuth (@ChancesCards) April 21, 2022
Chatter about cheating online poker is the hot topic today. The high-stakes community is reacting strongly over recent evidence concerning some well-known characters.
Alex Foxen recently tweeted to out a recent transgression of Ali Imsirovic and has set off a chain reaction with many commentators now demanding a blacklist of all known cheaters.
When a poker site decides conclusively someone is cheating, they ban them, keep their identity a secret, and disperse the money as they see fit. The current system that’s in place is inadequate and unacceptable. We need a Poker Blacklist.
— Chance Kornuth (@ChancesCards) April 21, 2022
Chance Kornuth points out that sites acting alone don’t even publish the identities of those who get banned and the community rarely knows who it is and cannot react.
“People who gain an unfair advantage on a poker site are only prohibited from playing on that site and nothing else happens. There needs to be some kind of committee that determines if their actions are eligible for a Poker Blacklist.”
Justin Bonomo has also spoken out. He claims to have lost more than $1,000,000 playing in games against players he says used real-time assistance and multiple accounts.
Is a High Stakes Boycott Possible?
I still fear that the major, most trusted sites @GGPoker @partypoker and @PokerStars won’t do what needs to be done unless we as a community come together to force change. For the most part, these sites only care about their bottom line, and nothing will happen until…
— Chance Kornuth (@ChancesCards) April 21, 2022
Chance Kornuth may have unwittingly set off a chain of events leading to a boycott of major sites by high-stakes players.
He thinks that sites will refuse to react unless their bottom line is affected, and that can only mean less rake coming through the system.
This kind of talk hasn’t been seen since the PokerStars boycott over the cancellation of the old VIP scheme. That was completely ineffective but we don’t know if the top guys have anything special up their sleeves this time.
Online Poker Is Still Safe
Many posters on Twitter were in agreement that online poker is still a safe place to play overall. All of the recent controversy is about specifically the high-stakes community.
Patrick Leonard was at pains to get this point across.
PLAYING ONLINE POKER RECREATIONALLY IS AN EXTREMELY SAFE PLACE TO PUT MONEY INTO. Anybody searching the poker hashtag (my mum was even asking me at dinner about it all simply from searching poker) will be swamped with about how online poker is “fucked” and “full of cheaters”
— Patrick Leonard (@padspoker) April 21, 2022
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