Alex Foxen has publicly outed Ali Imsirovic as a prolific cheater, claiming he is banned on GGPoker for using Real-Time Assistance (RTA) and multi-accounting.
Foxen added that he has witnessed Imsirovic dumping chips to horses as well as suspicious changes in playing style when deep in online MTTs.
Ali Imsirovic Accused of Cheating by Alex Foxen
Poker black-list can’t come soon enough.
Ali is banned from GG for Multi-accounting and RTA. I have witnessed numerous chip dumps to horses, and many suspicious changes in play from people known to be his horses when deep in online MTTs.— Alex Foxen (@WAFoxen) April 18, 2022
These are serious accusations which apparently have been confined almost exclusively to the high stakes community, but a recent piece of evidence picked up by the cameras at the Super High Roller Ball Europe had Foxen thinking enough is enough.
Ali opens the CO with Ah9c. Then quite visibly looks down at Paul Phua’s hole cards, Ad5. The actual footage makes it even more clear than this screen shot. Paul folds and Addamo defends the BB. Ali cbets and gets raised on 642ddd, sticks in a 3bet and wins the hand. pic.twitter.com/aIhQw4Hqv4
— Alex Foxen (@WAFoxen) April 18, 2022
Alex Foxen claims that Ali Imsirovic takes a clear look at the holecards of Paul Phua after opening Ah9c in the CO and sees that he folds Ad5.
When the flop comes down 6d 4d 2d Imsirovic makes a c-bet and gets raised. Nothing unusual at this point, and nor is the flop raise by Michael Addamo who defended his big blind.
What Alex Foxen saw next is what angered him so much that he felt he had to make such accusations in a public forum.
When facing a flop raise, according to the GTO solver, there should only be three-bet shoves for value and as a bluff when holding a diamond. This is a spot that all high stakes players will understand clearly.
But Ali Imsirovic chooses to deviate from the correct solution and makes a tiny three-bet bluff, which according to Foxen he can only do if he knows that the ace of diamonds is already out of play along with a five.
The allegation is that Ali is rubbernecking Phua’s hole cards and then with the knowledge that the A(d) and a 5 are in the muck, he is 3 betting the flop in a spot where he never would otherwise do so.
— brad (@bradjansen6) April 18, 2022
This is not evidence that will stand up in a court of law, but elite players are incredibly astute at picking up on these subtleties and understanding what is going on.
Matt Berkey: “Can also confirm from extremely reputable sources”
Can also confirm from extremely reputable sources. I’ll say it again for umpteenth time, RTA is far more rampant than most care to acknowledge. This is literally the tip of the iceberg.
— Matt Berkey (@berkey11) April 18, 2022
Alex Foxen also pointed out that the very next day after the hand described was played, Ali Imsirovic turned up to play wearing sunglasses! Did the whispers of what the cameras witnessed the previous day get back to him?
The cherry on top is the next day, for the first time I’ve ever seen, Ali shows up in sunglasses. The whispers of this egregious hole carding must have made it’s way back to him. pic.twitter.com/5mriZKMaqf
— Alex Foxen (@WAFoxen) April 18, 2022
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