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The Canadian pro was accused of multiaccounting (once again) and according to the source, Liv Boeree and other high stakes pros have been aware of the cheating.
Sorel Mizzi is one of the most controversial players in the game, he became known on his Zangbezan24 and Imper1um nicknames, leading the online MTT rankings in 2007. He has $3,629,575 in online winnings according to P5s, but this is dwarved by his live poker winnings, he collected more than $11 million since 2007.
In 2015 he made several big scores (4th in PCA High Roller for $659,000, 4th in WPT Shooting Stars for $310,000) but after the WSOP he disappeared from bigger tournaments. According to 2+2 forum member StillDoingIt he did this because the high stakes community learned that he had been cheating again.
Mizzi was first banned from Full Tilt in 2007 for buying the account of Chris ''CVBluffMag'' Vaughn in the late stage of a tournament and eventually winning it.
Mizzi was also banned by PokerStars for three months after he gave control of his account to a friend in a $300 WCOOP PLO tournament, claiming he had to catch a flight.
In 2011 he was caught red-handed once again, this time he cheated by dealing off the bottom of the deck in a heads-up Chinese poker game against John Racener. Mizzi claimed he was on drugs and a very bad place after the death of a family member and that's why he did it.
Now 2+2 forum member StillDoingIt wrote the following about Mizzi:
''Sorel Mizzi final tabled the most recent WCOOP event under the name bindernutnut. Karma prevailed and he eventually finished 9th. Speculation that he was using multiple accounts is not yet confirmed nor is the speculation that he has been doing this for a long time has been confirmed yet.
He played the tournament from his place in Las Vegas using a VPN.
Perhaps the most shocking part of the story is that one of his best friends Rory Brown also final tabled the event and Sorel spoke with him about strategy in the final table and offered to help him out both before the final table started and live.
London Royals manager and PokerStars pro Liv Boeree knew all about this and is one of the people on Sorels side (not telling her employers PokerStars) and putting it down to mental problems on Sorels side. Many other pros know about this and it has been gossip within the high stakes circles in Las Vegas for the last months.
Antonio Esfandiari and other former friends of Sorel have turned on him and asked him to repay all debts.
All of the above is factual, the suggestions that he has always continued to multi account playing via VPNs and betrayed more of his friends is simply unconfirmed speculation.
It would not surprise me if he has multiple accounts in today's Sunday majors. I think Liv should be pushed to make this public to PokerStars and the money won on this confirmed (to her and others) and other accounts that he is using should be confiscated.
There is no "proof". Liv knew all along and when it got out she defended him and was on his side.
It is common knowledge in the high stakes community. You won't see him at any super high rollers, the guys who were buying pieces in him have completely written him off, he owed a lot of money and sold his place in Vegas to pay back all the debts he has from complete degeneracy. Antonio put the word out when he found out about this.
By the way this was the WCOOP main event, he cashed over 100,000 on this account and who knows how much on other accounts. Since this came out he doesn't have a single cash on Hendon Mob and I guess he didn't go to PCA to play the high rollers there. Anybody who is anybody knows they are the softest tournaments on the year for high rollers. Last year he came 4th in the $100k.
If you check his Twitter he has close to zero tweets between November-February. In February he made a post "new goal - no more drugs".
I have no idea how he does he but he has a system to play on multiple accounts from the States. He won 6 figures and Liv knows about this. I think Stars should treat this with very high importance. It came out after his life time ban on PokerStars/Full Tilt that he was playing on 6+ accounts (Full Tilt employee posted this was true in the thread where he was cheating people at Chinese poker)
Liv response to this is quite laughable. "Post burning man schizophrenia" you can't make this up.
As far as I know Rory (Mr Kingball - 6th place finisher) spoke to Sorel before the final table and explained his reads/strategy on all players including Sorel (he didn't k ow it was Sorel of course) but didn't allow him to see his screen while the final table ran)
He found out afterwards and is obviously extremely pissed about it.
Their should be extreme pressure put on Stars to make the lifetime ban lifetime as well as doing an investigation into what Liv knew and knows.''
Later in the thread both 2015 WSOP Main Event champ Joe McKeehen and Jason ''jmo23'' Mo have confirmed the rumors. Mizzi and Liv Boeree have not made a statement regarding the accusations yet.