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https://old.reddit.com/r/ripcity/comments/13lbu55/chauncey_allegedly_scammed_people_out_of/Matt: There are a lot of stories about it. There's one that cropped up, must've been like 5 years ago, 2019ish I think? 4 years ago? Where there was this game, it started in LA and then it came to Vegas for a few days, and it was all built around Chauncey Billups. And I had heard about the game, and the person who told me about it was like "Look, I know the game runners, I am telling you 100% this game is on the up-and-up." And I was like "Well, I know a lot of the people that are involved and I am telling you 100% that it is NOT on the up-and-up."
We kind of went back and forth and I agreed that I just wasn't going to go play. But I had some friends who went and played it both in LA and in Vegas, and it obviously was like, for sure confirmed to be cheated. Like people who clearly didn't even understand the rules of No Limit Hold'em are just jamming hundreds of big blinds with a gutty and then just drilling it.1 [laughs] Only the pros are losing...
Conrad: How was it figured out?
Matt: I can't remember if this was the game where...
Conrad: The loudspeaker? No... that was Pierce [referring to a different cheating story involving Paul Pierce]
Matt: Oh, okay. Well it's still, it's not like Chauncey and Pierce don't know each other [laughs]. I feel like it's probably the same crowd overlapping there, but maybe not. Either way, it was basically confirmed amongst all the pros that the game was cheated but here's just no recourse. And just, you know, they got absolutely flayed.
Conrad: Yeah, there's no recourse in a lot of these situations.
Matt: Well it's tough too whenever you're dealing with someone high profile like that, because they carry a lot of weight and hold a lot of power, so all you can do is unite together and threaten to publicly out him or extort him in some sort of capacity, in which case... good luck. It's like, this guy beat rape charges. You think he cares about you calling him a cheater?
Conrad: Yeah, I mean it's like... most people cheat and come prepared for a situation when it does happen. So you just can't really out them. When they're there, you don't want to call them out in public--
Matt: Well what's crazy to me is that some of the guys I'm friends with that played the game kept going back, not fully convinced. Just like "These guys are so bad, man. So bad!" Yeah man, they know what's **** coming, man. You don't have to be good if you can know the deck start to finish. Of course they look bad, they're putting it in with no equity knowing that they're going to win the **** hand. Pretty tough you know?
