Professional poker player Garrett Adelstein at his home in Manhattan Beach. Click here to read our previous interview with Robbi Jade Lew.
Garrett Adelstein was four months out of college, grinding his way through thousands of online poker hands a day while he figured out what he wanted to do with his life.
He was winning an average of $500 an hour and had calculated that he could make as much as half a million dollars over the next year if he kept at it. But Adelstein was conflicted, turning one afternoon to poker forum Two Plus Two to solicit advice.
“The main problem with poker for me is that day to day, I have mixed feelings about how happy I am doing this as a living,” he wrote in the 2008 post . “I just can’t see myself playing poker as a career for more than another 1-2 years at most.”
Fourteen years of playing professional poker later, Adelstein is one of the game’s best and most profitable high-stakes cash players, known to viewers of popular casino broadcasts for his loose-aggressive style of no-limit hold ’em and his willingness to buy in for enormous sums of money, bringing as much as $1 million to the table.
On Sept. 29, Adelstein made the biggest bet of his life: risking his well-respected reputation, and possibly his poker career, when he accused rookie player Robbi Jade Lew of cheating in a $269,000 hand against him on “Hustler Casino Live.”
Video of the hand — in which Lew’s unorthodox all-in call with the jack of clubs and the four of hearts led to an improbable win — was watched by 20,000 people as it was streamed and by millions more as the clip went viral. Some fellow pros have said Lew’s strategy in the hand was inexplicable unless she knew Adelstein’s cards; Lew later said she was confused about what she had but outplayed him nonetheless. The production company behind “Hustler Casino Live” said it is investigating and has yet to turn up proof of cheating by Lew or anyone else.
Without concrete evidence, the bombshell allegation has […]
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