Sorel Mizzi Blackmailed In Connection With Poker Cheating Scandal

With over $4 million in winnings, the 24 year old Sorel Mizzi is indeed one of the games rising stars having amassed his fortune on both the live and the online arena.
However, the young Canadian pro has had to deal with a whole load of controversy along the way and has admitted to cheating, as well as having been cheated during his brief but spectacular career.
A year and a half ago, Mizzi famously lost around half a million dollars to card cheats in Monte Carlo.
Before then in December 2007, however, Mizzi was embroiled in a cheating scandal at Full Tilt poker in which he took over play of a friends account in the middle of an online tournament. Despite then winning the event, Mizzi was disqualified and his friend and senior editor of Bluff Magazine Chris Vaughn lost his job from the magazine.
Now in the latest piece of unwelcome news to hit the beleaguered poker pro, Sorel Mizzi recently came under scrutiny from the poker community, after a discussion thread allegedly involving Mizzi and Steve “Thorladen” Weinstein appeared on the TwoPlusTwo forum, in which they discussed a high tech method of cheating during online tournaments.
The method involved using a remote PC access programs to access computers in different locations, which would “revolutionizes teaching/ghosting in poker (and) can also be used for multi-accounting.”
Responding to the allegations made against him, Mizzi dismissed the alleged conversation as the work of a criminal who had tried to blackmail him in return for not releasing the forged transcript. As he explains in a TwoPlusTwo forum statement:
“Late last year, I got a message from the extortionist threatening to release what he had fabricated if I didn’t send him money online. I chose to completely ignore the threats.”
Sorel Mizzi concluded his response by stating; “NOBODY in the history of online poker has had their reputation unfairly tainted more than I have.”