It seems that you can’t keep Hustler Casino Live (HCL) out of the poker news at the moment.
Fresh from last week’s “bodysuit boobgate” story, we now have the official findings of the investigation into the now infamous “J4” hand between Robbi Jade Lew and Garrett Adelstein.
I am not going to bore you with another recap of the story, but to cut a long and often-repeated story short, Adelstein accused Lew of cheating when he lost a hand, she denied it but gave him his money back when confronted after the show.
He’s since maintained she cheated, she’s maintained her innocence.
Well, the report has now been made public, as HCL said it would when they first started their thorough investigation of what happened and the report is not going to make easy reading for Garrett Adelstein and his followers.
Whereas Mrs Lew seems to have been almost completely vindicated.
Let’s check out the major findings of the investigation, which began just days after the incident took place back in September.
You can read the full “Report of the Independent Investigation of Alleged Wrongdoing In Lew-Adelstein Hand And Audit of Security of Hustler Casino Live Stream, Commissioned By High Stakes Poker Productions LLC” by following the link above of this catchily titled report.
The report was compiled by cybersecurity firm Bulletproof, The Solution Group and Hustler Casino Live, with the assistance of a firm of lawyers Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton.
However, to save yourself trawling through the entirety of this lengthy, and somewhat impressive, report and audit, the main findings are highlighted below:
However, the owner of High Stakes Poker, Nick Vertucci, did admit that while the investigation, was thorough and no evidence of any wrongdoing could be found he did add a caveat stating
“We cannot say with 100% certainty that no wrongdoing happened, just that we found no evidence of it.”
Good news here for HCL and HSPP as the review showed that in terms of their software and hardware, the security of these items was found to be intact.
In the Two Plus Two poker forum, Garrett Adelstein posted a number of allegations that accused Lew, HCL employee Bryan Sagbigsal and another player at the table Jacob “Rip” Chavez of colluding to cheat.
However, the investigation did point out the ‘undisclosed financial relationship” between Lew and Rip, where Rip effectively bankrolled Lew in the tournament with an agreement to share any profits made, could “have created the appearance of possible collusion between the two players”.
The report did state that this conduct is “widely considered unethical in the poker community and is prohibited at “Hustler Casino Live” games.”
As a result of the investigation, a number of recommendations were made to improve in game security, chiefly regarding the production of the stream and these recommendations included:
Perhaps surprisingly, Garrett Adelstein was one of the first to respond on Twitter and he did so positively, mentioning the improved security measures:
However, he is yet to comment on the key part of the report which concluded that his allegations of being cheated were unfounded.
So far, Robbi Jade Lew has also kept her counsel, but it remains to be seen what the following 24-hours or so will bring on Twitter now that the investigation has been completed and she has been exonerated.
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