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Originally Posted by Firebot
The poker hand isn't cheating...just a questionable hero call even with the reasoning, in stakes games you have some crazy bad calls that make no sense precisely because stakes games can be very loose. She was running behind even with the call which is why her percentage is lower. (Garret had pretty much nearly half the deck as outs). They ran it twice and he lost both, but he was slight favourite to win both.
The board was also very drawy, whether she called to make a stand and had a range on him and truly believed he had nothing (a draw is not a made hand) no one would have questioned her of cheating if she lost both run outs. Bluffs and hero calls are a part of poker.
I've seen the chess scandal, and there has been zero evidence of actual cheating, but Magnus Carlsen is determined that he was beat by a cheater.
Niemann did not play a perfect game, he just played a better game then Carlsen which markedly some of his moves were seen as questionable. Carlsen has refused to elaborate on why he thinks Niemann cheated and let the allegations fester with zero evidence.
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I'm not saying he played a perfect game in that particular game, but he had played a significant number of perfect games (something like 12-13, which is astounding). It's not the kind of thing that you or I just fluke into doing.