This is a talk with professional poker player Yakov Hirsch about the well known high-stakes poker incident where amateur Robbi Jade Lew was accused of cheating by professional player Garrett Adelstein. We give our takes on the hand, and the overall situation, and we talk about Robbi’s possible motivations and thought processes during this hand, and also about our reads on what her behavior might indicate about her thinking.
This talk is only available on YouTube because of the references to visuals:
Related references:
- I thought Jonathan Little’s analysis was good: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAVmozQMGb
- LA Times report on investigation into this