Robbi Jade Lew won a $500 buy-in tournament at Thunder Valley Casino Resort Monday night, and she trolled the poker pro who once accused her of cheating — Garrett Adelstein — in the winner photo.
"There's two things that have to happen when winning tournaments — you have to play well and run well," Lew said. "That's really what it comes down to — make the right calls, make the right folds, and it just so happened it went down for me."
Lew won her first tournament since the alleged cheating incident at Hustler Casino Live in Sept. 2022. According to The Hendon Mob, she previously won two small events, one in 2021 and another one month prior to J4.
"I've always found that I generally do well where I'm not the biggest stack right away," Lew explained. "It's usually like I'm average stack and I grow it to a certain point. But I tend to do really well with a big stack. I know how to maintain it."
When the tournament dwindled down to five players, Lew wasn't in the chip lead, but she said "I just knew at that point I was going to win it." That prediction came to fruition.
After winning the tournament with AJ, instead of taking the winner photo in traditional fashion with the winning hand, she removed the A in favor of a 4 to troll the poker pro who accused her of cheating.
"I just kind of did that for fun," she said with a laugh. "Jack-four is always going to follow me. At first I was a little annoyed about it, but now I just embrace it. It's to the point where I think it makes people happy when they confront me, but no one's going to come to me unless they're excited about it."
