Chris Battenfield clears name after RTA accusations
At the start of the month, we brought you the news that online poker crusher Mike Holtz had actually implicated Chris Battenfield of utilizing GTOWizard as RTA. We hypothesized at the time there may be circumstances of incorrect positives following this story.
2 weeks on and Battenfield has actually spoken up, exposing that he has actually given that been cleared by both GTO Wizard and WSOP.com (the website he was using).
2 weeks back, I was mistakenly implicated of utilizing GTOWizard throughout play. (@MikeHoltzPoker)@WSOPcom and @GTOWizard have actually collaborated to confirm my innocence.A couple of days earlier
, the WSOP concluded their evaluation and raised the short-term hang on my account. https://t.co/tOlstPhV36
— Chris Battenfield|| battenfield.eth (@Battenfield) October 18, 2023
Right after the story broke, Matt Berkey exposed on his podcast that none of Battenfield’s hands had actually been signed up as favorable. In addition, an online gamer called ‘URNighmare’ was implicated of unfaithful on PokerStars, just for their hands to be considered to be incorrect positives.
Once again, we extend our apologies to @Battenfield & & UrNighmare, it was extremely regrettable that they were wrongfully implicated.
That stated, we ought to all be motivated by the speedy reaction of @wsop & & @PokerStars, unlike @official_glp.
To even more clarify on behalf of Chris here are … https://t.co/fffBPzjudb pic.twitter.com/Z0ATNxKaJb— Matt Berkey (@berkey11) October 18, 2023
It is worrying that incorrect positives might be something that incorrectly gets gamers implicated of unfaithful. Whether it is by fluke that someone was searching for a comparable hand at the exact same time, a railbird seeing and studying the action, or something harmful from a fellow gamer. As Berkey states, nevertheless, it is motivating that GTO Wizard and significant poker spaces are rapidly interacting on this concern.
No word at the time of composing from Holtz, who made the preliminary allegation.
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