Friday 7 October 2022 04:58 PM Poker player tries to prove $120k ring doesn't vibrate by taking it to jeweler ... trends now
A glamorous poker player has attempted to prove that her $120,000 ruby ring does not vibrate after she was accused of cheating in a Las Vegas tournament.
Robbi Jade Lew, 35, beat Garrett Adelstein during a Hustler Casino live stream game of Texas hold'em - but her sensational $269,000 win caused rumors of cheating to swirl.
Lew stunned the poker world when she went all-in with a weak Jack-high hand to win the massive pot on September 29.
In a bid to clear her name, she took the red ruby ring she was wearing during the match to a jeweler - who lent her the piece in the first place - to check if it was bugged.
Lew, who is relatively a newcomer to the poker world, also revealed that she learned how to play the game after reading 'Poker for Dummies.'
The 35-year-old said that the seven-carat red ring was lent to her a day before by a 109-year-old jewelers in Los Angeles.
And she returned to the shop, Kazanjian, to get gallery manager Joseph Barrios to check if the ring has any type of device which would have allowed her to cheat.
Robbi Jade Lew, 35, went to a jewelers in LA who checked if the ring had any type of bugging device in it. She is pictured here wearing the ruby ring on her middle finger
Robbi Jade Lew, 35, only started taking poker seriously after the coronavirus pandemic
Eagle-eyed fans believe they've spotted a key clue in the game footage, when Lew appears to fiddle with a ring and remove or rotate it under the table after the hand
Kazanjian, the LA jeweler which lent her the ring a day before the game. She returned back to get one of the jewelers to check if the ring was bugged
Looking at the ring through a loop, Barrios told LA Times: 'I don’t see anything that would be considered as a technological add-on to it. It’s insane.
'Would that have happened to a guy? No.'
Lew also decided that she was going to buy the ring from the jeweler, because 'it's a good story.'
And the poker player said that now she'll probably wear the red ring on every stream after the outrage it caused on September 29.
Debunking the claims that she somehow cheated for money and fame, Lew added: 'I didn’t need the money, so that’s hilarious. If I wanted to be famous, there are far easier ways to do it than this.'
And she shot down claims of foul play over her chair vibrating - instead insisting that she was hungover and forgot to take her ADHD pills, causing her leg to shake.
Adelstein, 36, from Arizona, is a regular at the 24-hour Hustler Casino in California. He was playing a Texas hold'em game when he was stunned into silence by Lew, a relative newcomer.
Lew suddenly made a call to go all-in despite having a relatively poor hand, leaving Adelstein and observers agape.
Those commentating on the game were in disbelief because the odds were stacked against her with online betting casino DraftKings calculating there were around 150 ways for Lew to
