Mars Denies Cheating Allegations in High-Stakes Poker Game

Poker player Mars has issued a statement denying allegations of cheating in a high-stakes private game. Mars was accused of bringing a UV-marked deck to the game that could be read by using special contact lenses. Mars issued a statement to PokerNews denying that any cheating took place in the game at Yorba Linda, California.

In his statement, Mars denied ever having brought the deck in the first place. He was confronted about this at the Formula One race weekend in Las Vegas but he said he had nothing to do with organising any equipment or dealers. Regarding the dealers, these are baseless accusations, moreover I'm not in charge of hiring any staff.

Mars admitted that there was a conversation about bringing cards from Yorba Linda when he was asked to bring a dealer, but the venue ended up being Yorba Linda anyway and so no organisation was done on his part. He added that there were already six or seven people playing at the game when he arrived, and so how could he have switched any equipment? Three weeks after the game took place, Mars said he was contacted by one of the players named Sun who had returned to China. Sun made a full admission, explaining it was because he was losing a lot of money in recent sessions.