Nacho Barbero uses GTO Wizard while playing on ACR
He foolishly posts to social media:
He later claims he didn't know using GTO wizard while playing was against the rules.
Before giving the "objective review" he already posted a supportive comment, showing he was biased before even conducting the review. The normal reaction would be to call for a ban. Its not sustainable to review every single person who is found to run RTA while playing. Just ban anyone who is found to breach the TOS.
Also his review doesnt prove anything at all. No one who would use RTA would be sitting there using it for every single decision. They would cherry pick situations to use it which would lead to tons of "errors" in any review. He still broke the TOS and should be banned. Tough luck if he actually just screwed up - there are other sites to play on as well as live. According to himself he doesnt play online anyway (lol).
not just that, before the investigation had even started they seemed to already imply they were going to find him innocent
This.
This review is worth nada. What happens to a normal player who is found to use RTA programs while playing? Snap ban, there wont be a thorough review by pads to find out what % of errors you are making as some kind of viable defense. ACR need to be consistent and ban him.
Patrick leonard, one of the best online mtt players sayed a couple of day ago this reality, literally stated on the podcast Solve for why "I would say the previus years to anyone that put the effort and study to get better at poker and try to make a living, that is possible to do it" this year i think is really impossible to anyone to do it, maybe the 0.01% that runs hot would make it"
See? My boy Nacho did nothing wrong...
Im confused. Didnt pads say he cant understand people not cheating? But then he says Nacho is not cheating?
Its been pretty clear for a long time that Pads, while undeniably a great player, is not consistent with his comments and will look very differently on what his friends do and what non friends do. Just look at the difference in his comments regarding Ali and Jake, and Nacho. Hes also a stable owner which says quite a bit about him - extremely low percentage chance that his business isnt involved with ghosting, hand sharing, soft colluding etc like all stables.
Ugh this is all disgusting and if he isn't banned then any chance all of them are cheating drops to nil.
There's no question, he's not viable to the success of your business but not banning him could be a detriment. It's a ban
I'm with you on that one. As I stated in a previous post of mine in this thread, I had always thought highly of pads prior to this, but the Nacho incident completely changed my opinion.
Poker players (especially when you're at an elite level such as pads) are very predatory and have the mindset of acquiring every last penny in EV. This whole investigation stunt proves to me that pads prioritizes the moneyz ahead of some stupid **** like game integrity & rules that only apply to the regular idiot sheep fish.
not just that, before the investigation had even started they seemed to already imply they were going to find him innocent
Yeah the result of this so-called investigation was painfully obvious to me. An ACR affiliate conducting an investigation on another ACR affiliate for an incident that happened on ACR. Warra surprise that he was deemed innocent!
TBF I also said that I think that in this particular scenario it's more likely that no cheating occured, however you cannot get away with breaking the TOU for the site that sponsors you. Once that happened ACR had to choose between keeping Nacho as an affiliate or make a statement that game integrity is something they value. Clearly they do not, so they chose to do the former. A fair conclusion I think would be that ACR are a bunch of piece of **** twats and playing on their site means that one cannot rely on a fair game.
https://donkhunter.com/en/news/acr-pro-n...
I wrote this blog post trying to collect information and connect the dots from multiple sources, I hope it's a fair and helpful analysis of the situation, but if there's anything wrong or missing I'd appreciate the input and edit the post. Thanks!
