Dishonest accusations have been levelled in opposition to two Chinese language gamers on the ultimate desk of the WSOP $50k PLO SHR this week.
As we reported earlier this week, Dylan Linde took down Occasion #57: $50,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha Excessive Curler for $2,146,414 and a 3rd WSOP gold bracelet. What wasn’t coated on the time have been accusations that two of the ultimate desk gamers have been maybe being somewhat too pleasant with one another. Danish professional Martin “Imbajimba” Dam claimed play between Ding Biao and Quan Zhou appeared like “blatant collusion”.
50k PLO WSOP Last desk (1st hand after 60min dinner break) – Ding Biao raises and his Chinese language countryman Quan Zhou (who’s normally very tight) shortly 3bets J874s with 12bb stack and Ding Biao folds with out scanning his playing cards. This appears to be like like blatant collusion @WSOP @PokerGO pic.twitter.com/PQFId3qhPG
— Imbajimba (@Imbajimbaa) June 23, 2025
Dam added: “For reference, very subsequent orbit: -Flats JT98ds 9bb BBvsMP open -Folds KKJTr 21bb SBvCO open. These are ofc barely completely different spots, however they’re indicative of his common taking part in fashion. He’s not a participant who randomly 3-bets J874s except there’s something else occurring.”
At virtually the very same time, Dirk “venividi1993” Gerritse was claiming the exact same:
I simply completed eighth within the $50k PLO WSOP occasion, very proud of the results of course, however once I watched again the stream some very suspicious occurred on the primary hand after the break that occurred earlier than the ultimate desk.
Ding opens the cutoff and Zhou finds the “artistic” 3… pic.twitter.com/ItCC4H2MUL
— Venividi1993 (@thevenividi1993) June 23, 2025
“I’m not saying with certainty that there’s dishonest occurring right here, I simply suppose the hand could be very suspicious and it deserves extra consideration,” wrote Gerritse.
The massive names of poker Twitter have been fast so as to add their tuppence-worth to the claims:
“Very bizarre…btb I requested ren and so they don’t like one another and I don’t see Bing Diao doing something shady. Is prob nothing.” Nacho Barbero“I’ve performed rather a lot with each gamers (additionally each in identical Cashgames) and that is very out of character, esp from Quan Zhou who’s a participant that limp calls rather a lot and could be very passive pre.” Alexander Petersen“I can’t imagine Ding is a part of it. And he’s not giving freely any chips at WSOP FT. However sure, one thing could be very incorrect right here. Will be graphics, drawback with stream, or simply 1 participant doing one thing shady.” JoaoSimao
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than Doug Polk cottoned on to the story and produced one in every of his humorous/annoying/normal (delete as applicable) movies concerning the allegations.
Then Martin Zamani received in on the motion, throwing in some ‘racisms’ whereas being virtually unintelligible:
“The Chinese language cheat in anyway they will. They cheat on streams @PokerDream_Live. Ren principally cheats everytime he performs. Speaking throughout multi-way fingers “gamble an excessive amount of”. Throughout a @tritonpoker 25K bubble China man left @DannyTang2 1Bb after some Chinese language phrases on river X again fullhouse.”
Quan Zhou, as many will recall, was embroiled in an argument again in 2019 on the EPT Barcelona Essential Occasion. There, he was accused of angleshooting…and his guilt wasn’t even a close-run factor!
This angleshoot is so ridiculous. It will get funnier once you maintain rewatching how unhealthy he tries to defend himself together with his motions going each route https://t.co/mAWNj3AFjV
— Randy Lew (@nanonoko) August 29, 2019
For now, a minimum of, the accusations will stay simply that, however for Zhou a minimum of the claims will see his actions adopted ever extra carefully.
