Ken-Gate (Ken Lennard & Russ Georgiev tried to cheat Erik123, others?)

[maurile]

I did a search but didn't find anything on this: Ken-Gate.

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As the online poker players are awaiting the consequences of the new legislation, the Swedish poker scene are eagerly watching what appears to be a huge scandal unfold.

The main character in ”Ken-gate” is Ken Lennaárd. He is by far our most well known poker player. He is (was?) the chairman of the Swedish Poker Player Association, the spokes person of the government owned poker site, the poker columnist in the biggest newspaper in Scandinavia and the play by play announcer on the, if not the biggest but at least the best poker show here in Sweden.

His side kick in this mess is ....*pause for effect*... Russ Georgiev.

Yep, that´s right, Russ G, the tool from RGP.

It all started when Russ published this post on RGP this spring. He also posted numerous emails that he claimed was sent to him by Lennard.

The whole story is just to long to tell here but the (alleged) basic plot is that in 2003 Ken organized a private game in his family's hotel. He invited Martin DeKnijff, Christer Johansson (former winner EPT Paris) and Erik Sagström (Erik123) to play and told them that the game also would include an American billionaire that was a huge fish.

Ken and Russ then rigged a room in Ken's family's hotel in Stockholm. They set up cameras to see the hole cards and the hired dealer was a card mechanic. The plan was to cheat the three invited players.

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