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Was looking at Highroll Poker's Hustler Casino Live Results this morning and going through some of the leaderboard filters and something stuck out to me as a VERY strange.
Luda is winning at a mind boggling 62 BB/hour over 180 hours on HCL between $10/20, $10/25, $20/40, $25/50 and $30/60 in 2023 ALONE.
Wasn't this guy at the center of a cheating allegation on LATB back in the day? Why is there nobody talking about this?
Highly sus.
He used to be roommates with Ryan Feldman (cofounder of the show).
I watched last nights show for a large pct of it. Truthfully I didnt see anything wrong unless all the dealers are in on it. Dude is a maniac and has been but hes also smashed flops at a shocking rate. I mean its not like hes winning hands by pulling a garrett and bullying people. He legit has it in the hands hes winning most often. I will add last night he booked the biggest win in HCL history for their tues night ante game at 130K+. But if hes cheating hes got the help of Magic, Tawny and the other dealers on the show to do so. Dude isnt playing J4Os like Robbi Jade. Dudes hitting 2 pair on the flop with hands Im sure some would never play out of position. Nick was playing last night too and joked how much of a luck sack Luda is. He isnt bullying people off marginal hands with sus hands of his own. Hes legit got a hand when hes winning a vast majority of the time.
Yes, he was the one previously accused of cheating.
There was never any concrete evidence presented, besides his strong win rate and his association with Ryan Feldman.
As I have mentioned before, in 2022 a player unknown to me approached me during a break at a WSOP event. He asked, "Are you Todd Witteles?", and I said yes. He then went on to tell me that his friend listened to my radio show, but he didn't. However, he said he was aware of who I was. He said his friend recommended finding me and telling me about Ludacris cheating on Live at the Bike via Ryan Feldman.
He told me an elaborate story involving Ludacris being a cheater and suddenly changing his formerly nitty playstyle to being wild, despite the limits being higher than he ever played before, and crushing the Live at the Bike games. He claimed Ryan was let go from Live at the Bike because of being caught facilitating cheating in the game, but that Live at the Bike kept it quiet for their own reputation's sake.
I asked him if he had any proof of this, and he told me to "ask around" and this would be verified by a lot of people.
Well, since he had no proof, I wasn't about to make this public and put out such allegations against Ryan, just on the say-so of some stranger at the WSOP. So I didn't tell anyone about this.
A little more than a year later (I think during the Robbi Jade Lew controversy), the story was then brought out on Reddit, and then Ryan addressed it all on Twitter. At that point, I felt comfortable putting out the story above.
In my opinion, until we see proof or an unattainable winrate (like what MoneyTaker69 recently had on GG), we can't say if there is/was cheating on HCL.