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UB cheater Russ Hamilton hackled in Gulfstream
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2011-01-27 12:54
What goes around comes around they say and actions always have consequences one has to be prepared to deal with if he sets out to do something morally and legally questionable. When it comes to morally questionable deeds, there are few which top the Ultimate Bet and
Absolute Poker cheating scandals, the main perpetrator of which has been confirmed to be none other than 1994
WSOP Main Event Champion Russ Hamilton.
Hamilton had stayed away from poker for a while, but lately it seems he’s been surfacing in various card-rooms, aiming to get back into the flow. On January 18, 2011 he was at the Gulfstream Poker Room in South Florida, playing and exchanging niceties with fellow players when two young players, one of them a poker forum member and the other one the owner of a Youtube poker vlog, happened upon his table and recognized him.
One of them couldn’t stomach his presence and he couldn’t resists the opportunity to hackle him, so he verbally engaged him, first in a friendly tone, but then things suddenly took a turn to the worse.
Feeling fed up with the constant verbal stings coming from the young player, regarding his past
UB Poker and AP antics, Hamilton exploded in a profanity-laden tirade which drew the attention of the floor personnel.
It was the floorman who eventually broke up the verbal melee, by asking the young player to show respect for all their poker players. His reply was apparently that he would show no respect to a cheater of Hamilton’s caliber, and that rather than tolerating a person like him at his table, he would prefer to be ejected from the room. Eventually that was exactly what perspired, as both the protagonist and his friend left the room, in what they described as a triumphal march.
It is quite impossible to verify whether the story is indeed credible, but the majority of the online poker community has already commended the author of the deed nonetheless, though various channels.
