Did He CHEAT?????
Published 2024-02-13
When playing super deep stacked poker, some of the best preflop hands to bluff with are suited connectors and suited gappers because when you do happen to flop a strong hand, you are likely to get paid off, and when you don’t, you can often represent the high cards like aces or kings.
Luda Chris is introduced as a long time regular on the show who plays up to $200/$400. The commentator mentions during the player introductions that Luda Chris’ favorite hand is K3, and “any other hand you could possibly put together”.
GT is introduced as a tech guy from San Francisco who loves to gamble. He often flies in to play on the Hustler Casino Live stream and is part of the Hustler family.
Hustler Casino Live is a full-scale, high-value poker production. Close to a million dollars was spent transforming the casino’s high-limit poker room, the Crystal Room, into the set of this new state-of-the-art live show. Hustler Casino Live looks more like coverage of a TV broadcast sporting event and appeals to those beyond the poker community. Unscripted and unedited, they host regular poker streams such as ‘Max Pain Monday’ and ‘Thirsty Thursday’. Some of the most notable poker players to have appeared on the show are Phil Ivey ‘The Tiger Woods of Poker’, Tom Dwan ’durrrr’, Phil Hellmuth ‘The Poker Brat’, Chris Moneymaker, Doug Polk ‘WCGRider, Garrett Adelstein ‘Gman’, Tony Guoga ‘Tony G’ and many more.
In the ante game, all players post $25 as an ante, but the player on the button posts $50. The action starts to the left of the button (small blind), and players need to cover the $50 ante to enter the pot.
🔍 Pre-Flop Drama:
The ante game action kicks off from the small blind, where Mike X calls the extra $25 with his J3 of clubs. Luda Chris in the big blind follows suit with 86 of hearts, prompting calls from Dr. H. under the gun with 97 of clubs and from Jboogs under the gun +1 with 54o. GT in the lojack then bumps up the price of poker by raising it to $1,000 with pocket aces. Francisco, sitting in the hijack with pocket tens, decides to call. Mike X also calls before Luda Chris makes a surprising limp re-raise to $6,000. Dr. H. and Jboogs fold, but GT 4-bets to $19,000. Francisco and Mike X fold, but Luda Chris, undeterred, calls to see a flop heads-up with GT.
💸 Flop - Ks 8d 8c
After Luda Chris hits trips on this dream flop he decides to check, allowing GT to fire out a small bet of $15,000 with his overpair. Luda Chris sets the trap and decides to just call as they both head to the turn.
💣 Turn - Jd
The turn J of diamonds brings a potential backdoor flush draw. Once again, Luda Chris checks to the aggressor. GT might be suspicious that he is beat here as he opts to check back.
🌊 River - 7s
After the 7 of spades completes the board. Luda Chris, with trips, decides he wants to take over the betting lead in the hand and become the aggressor. He slides all his chips across the line and announces “all-in” for $32,225. GT doesn’t like this half pot-sized bet. But what will he do with aces - call or fold? What he does next and what he says after will throw you out of your seat! Listen closely to this entire poker video to find out!
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All Comments (21)
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Do YOU think Luda Chris cheated or not? 🤯
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Bad beats are hard to take, but accusing him of cheating is out of line.
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Waaaa! Waaaa! You cracked my aces! You must be cheating! Honestly, this is NLHE. Who hasn't had their aces cracked by a hand that should have folded pre-flop? It's a brutal game. Sack up.
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The way he insulted his integrity, I gotta give a lot of props to Luda Chris here for taking it in stride.
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"This is not a normal play" - He says after calling an open with 93 suited lmao
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If GT had poket kings it would have still all gotten in and he would be happy. Is he accusing the dealer of rigging the deck? That's the only way I can see this as cheating.
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No way he cheated, GT just got steamed because his aces cracked
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Guy obviously doesn’t know his opponent. Luda is a maniac. And guy was the fish.
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As Stu Unger said, “All 2 aces are good for is winning a small pot, or losing a big one.”
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he “put him on kings” so he had to call the king high board…
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Dude is a crybaby. Period.
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I am just a chat pro. But I watch these streams all the time I did not blink an eye when Luda played those napkins and cracked AA.
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Absolutely not. That was Luda just being Luda. Also with the stand up game being on.
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I was the appointed, anointed loser. I was the target. I had aces, and before I had kings, and lost (therefore I MUST HAVE BEEN CHEATED)
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The thing that seemed strangest to me was raising to 6000$ with 8 6 suited. The psychology of the situation when you're already invested 6000, and Luda did not know he was going up against aces, I can see the call in that spot. As for whether Luda was cheating, I haven't watched a lot of his play, but from what little I know about him, he likes to play very crazy, or "ludicrously", so no, I don't think he was cheating. I just think he plays contrary to what modern poker theory says he should do
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Im surprise he havent come out to apologize. Saying someone is cheating on stream is a very serious accusation.
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Just today at 1/2 at Foxwoods I had AA in LP. UTG, r10, +2, +3 calls, I make it $50. $200 effective. UTG calls, everyone else folds. Flop comes QsJd6h, UTG checks, I bet $35 UTG shoves, I call. UTG HAS J6 of clubs… these things happen, it’s NOT cheating.
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Don't think Luda cheats, but it did leave a bad impression when it came out Luda and Ryan Feldman are roommates or even more.
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I love how everyone was saying this is normal on a Tuesday, but all of them seem super surprised about the fact he called with 68.
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I don't think he cheated, but it's an awful play, which does make it weirder coming from a pro than at a 1/2 game. I think it's sufficiently out of line that I can at least understand why GT is suspicious. That said, JL always gives great analysis, but the idea that 86s is okay "because they are deep" makes no sense here. It's not about the number of BB they started with. GT made it 19k preflop and Luda has 60k left. He's going to the flop out of position with just over 1 SPR. How is even 67s or 87s supposed to realize here?
