German Poker Cheat Gets Three Years In Prison

According to media reports, poker player Ali Tekintamgac has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison over in Germany for running a poker cheating ring.

Augsburger-allgemeine.de reported (via a translation) that he “has admitted that he has cheated on international poker tournaments and illegal rounds in the back rooms of pubs [in] Augsburg.” Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany, and that’s where he was sentenced.

Tekintamgac was first accused of cheating around four years ago, when he won the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship after then allegedly using a phony member of the media to signal to him what an opponent was holding. The video can be seen below. The incident begins at the 27-second mark.

As a result of alleged video evidence, Tekintamgac was later disqualified hours before the final table of the 2010 Partouche Poker Tour main event, which was delayed by a month and held in November, and his chips were removed from play. He was accused of cheating in that event as well, with suspicions arising about his play in at least one other event.

The behavior finally caught up with him, as he was arrested this past fall by German authorities. He pleaded guilty, but still received some jail time.

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