{"id":1065,"date":"2024-10-24T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2024-10-24T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T14:16:27","slug":"world-series-of-poker-bracelet-winner-suspended-amid-cheating-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/world-series-of-poker-bracelet-winner-suspended-amid-cheating-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series of Poker Bracelet Winner Suspended Amid Cheating Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ruscitti suspended<\/h2>\n

The World Series of Poker Online has suspended recent online bracelet winner Kevin Ruscitti after allegations were made of his use of real-time assistance (RTA) software during tournaments.<\/p>\n

Ruscitti, who goes by the screenname\u00a0\u201cGR4ND_THEFT\u201d online, is the current WSOP Online Michigan player of the year. He won his first bracelet over the weekend in a $500 No-Limit Hold\u2019Em PKO event, defeating Cherish Andrews heads up for the title.<\/p>\n

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several fellow Michigan pros publicly accused him of cheating<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, days later, Ruscitti had his account suspended by the site after several fellow Michigan pros publicly accused him of cheating, submitting evidence that many of his hands had failed fair play checks.<\/p>\n

Fair play checks<\/h2>\n

Suspicions about Ruscitti arose earlier in the year, when Michigan player Ryan Hiller said that Ruscitti bragged about RTA use to other pros. Hiller then began running fair play checks on Ruscitti\u2019s hands to determine if any foul play was involved.<\/p>\n

Hiller used popular poker study tool GTOWizard to run the checks. Unlike a traditional solver, GTOWizard contains a library of solutions which are rapidly accessible. To help catch players using the solutions during a game, players can check to see if the solution for any particular spot was requested at the time it was played.<\/p>\n

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Hiller and several other Michigan players found multiple cases where he failed fair play checks<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After repeatedly checking Ruscitti\u2019s hands, Hiller and several other Michigan players found multiple cases where he failed fair play checks. The players kept things \u201cunder wraps for a time until enough evidence was compiled that we thought WSOP would have no other option but to ban his account,\u201d said pro Mario Arribas, speaking to PokerNews<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Arribas then posted the accusations publicly on his X account, revealing several of the high-profile spots that had failed fair play checks. Days later, Ruscitti\u2019s WSOP.com account was suspended pending further investigation.<\/p>\n

Evidence questioned<\/h2>\n

Ruscitti immediately denied the allegations, posting on social media \u201cI\u2019ve been playing poker 12 hours a day every day for the past 4 years and for whatever reason it\u2019s hard for some people to accept the fact that maybe I\u2019m just a good player.\u201d<\/p>\n

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once proven innocent I\u2019ll be back\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t need GTO to win all I need are my notes and I\u2019ll be crushing. Anyways once proven innocent I\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well-known pro Matt Berkey also chimed in to advise caution, stating that the fair play checks that had been publicly submitted were insufficient to accuse Ruscitti of cheating, noting that they could be false positives.<\/p>\n

Speaking on X, Berkey said that the checks were \u201cnot consistent [with] positive hits and shouldn\u2019t be used to publicly persecute someone. If someone is using GTOWizard maliciously there should be no shortage of positive hits that align to the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Andrews, who was defeated by Ruscitti heads up for the bracelet, did not state that she believed he cheated, but did say that his opponents should be reimbursed if the allegations are proved.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it is proven that he is guilty and that he did cheat, then that money should be confiscated and it should be distributed appropriately.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ruscitti suspended The World Series of Poker Online has suspended recent online bracelet winner Kevin Ruscitti after allegations were made of his use of real-time assistance (RTA) software during tournaments. Ruscitti, who goes by the screenname\u00a0\u201cGR4ND_THEFT\u201d online, is the current WSOP Online Michigan player of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}