Remember back in October, when Jeremy Ausmus finished second in the $7,777 WSOP online bracelet event to an unknown player named "JStrizza"?

Ausmus was immediately suspicious, especially when he saw that JStrizza, whose real name is Jared Strauss, had recently been playing $60 events.

https://twitter.com/jeremyausmus/status/1580255402800820224


Some people responded negatively, and assumed Ausmus was just being a sore loser:

https://twitter.com/loch_bryan/status/1580700608142938113
https://twitter.com/FlynnandO/status/1580692222110240768
https://twitter.com/betbrett/status/1580257799304450048
https://twitter.com/butterthedoge/status/1580293123787587584



Here's Jared's Hendonmob: https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/pla...p?a=r&n=406455


Note that he was mainly entering $500-$1500 events from 2015 through mid-2020. However, he clearly fell upon hard times in late 2020, entering $60 tournaments repeatedly (so it wasn't just a one-off with him entering for fun).

Suddenly in 2022 he started playing high-4-figure buyin events, and one of those was the tough $7,777 WSOP online event which he won.

I agreed that this looked suspicious, but not enough to say definitively that there was any kind of cheating or multi-accounting. Since Jared had been playing low-4-figure events for years prior to mid-2020, it's possible he ran it up in some other way in 2021 (maybe from those blackjack wins stated by his friend above), and then took shots at bigger events. It's also possible that Jared found backing of some kind, which would be completely fine.

I did think it was bad form to hassle Jeremy about his suspicions. He definitely had a right to question the matter.

I criticized WSOP's lack of visible management, who wouldn't clarify what they had done to make sure this win was legit.

https://twitter.com/Joeingram1/status/1580662266868822016
https://twitter.com/ToddWitteles/status/1580664728308760578



Well... I have an update for you. See next post.