Chino Rheem rolls Will Molson for $40k

David “Chino” Rheem didn’t have the best July on the poker forums as a video from the high-stakes area of the Aria showed Chino being confronted by another regular named “Harley” and accused of “owing everyone in this town money” to which Chino replied, “Yeah, so what”. This was followed by an accusation by Ben Lamb that Chino had welched on a bet they made at the WSOP.

Well now even more information is coming to light on some of Chino’s past transgressions, and after this story it’s easy to see why the phrase “you got Chino’ed” is interchangeable with “say goodbye to your money!”

Apparently Chino Rheem borrowed $20,000 from high-stakes poker player Will Molson -the 2011 PCA High-Roller Champ-to play in the EPT London High-Roller tournament. Chino received $40,000 after a clerical error by PokerStars sent the payment twice, and despite cashing in the event for $150k has not paid Molson back!

Here is a look at what Molson posted on 2+2:

Hello all,

Firstly, let me introduce myself since I rarely post on here. My name is Will Molson and my pokerstars alias is molswi47. It is unfortunate that I have to write my first long post on 2+2 with this warning to everyone. I feel bad that I delayed sharing this story for so long and missed an opportunity to warn others after recently seeing Ben Lamb’s and others get screwed over by Chino. I am going to try and make this short and to the point.

The incident occurred last year at ept london. My friend brought chino into our room to hang out and play some online. This was the first time I met him but obviously knew about him from all his tv appearances and from seeing him playing all the big tournaments. It was towards the end of the trip and there was only the turbo high roller left on the schedule. He claimed that he needed stars money so he can directly buy in to the event and would swap ftp money in return. He also says that his boy Michael Mizrachi needs the same hook up and tells me, after calling him, that I will be getting a xfer from the grinder on ftp for the both of them. This is after him shipping the players championship and final tabling the main, so I obviously thought that there would be nothing fishy about this transaction.

I agree to this and ship 20k to him and 20k to grinder so that they can buy in in the morning. Xfer doesn’t go through because it was the first time I would be xfering to their accounts and stars support was busy. Tournament is about to start so I have to go the stars desk and ask them if they can manually allow the xfer to go through. They get the money – everything is all good. I bust and later that day I see stars shipped 40k to both of them instead of 20k each. They made a new 20k xfer and after that was processed the other xfer was then able to then go through they tell me. I’m then make a big scene at the desk but they say they can’t do anything.

I get on my flight back to Canada later on that day and get home to see that Chino has come 3rd in the event for 150k. I text both of them to see if they got double the planned amount and both of them confirm this with me. So I think all is good lol – but nah. Grinder ships me back the 40k and says I never agreed to vouch or send for Chino. Chino then becomes very hard to get a hold of and is making all these excuses as to why he hasn’t shipped on tilt yet. After weeks and weeks of trying to get my money I finally get a text from his saying I’m broke and I can’t get you the money… lol wtf? Dude, you cashed in the event I got you into for 150k and you don’t have the courtesy to ship back asap? Grinder texts me and says he can’t do anything and that he’s gotten Chino out of these holes in the past but is done with it now. Chino still “owes” me 40k almost a year later. I put that into parentheses because he flat out stole from me and it’s at the point where I don’t expect to see my money back. He flat out stole from me and had no intention of swapping ftp money with me. I waited awhile to out this mainly because I thought there would be a better chance seeing the money if I kept it low key for awhile and gave him time.

Glad I got this off my chest – off to play day one of epic poker league now. I will defs be letting Chino know, if I see him (he qualified for event), that his already battered rep in the poker world just got a whole lot worse. **** been hitting the fan past few days in the poker world. Hopefully this isn’t overshadowed by the other scandals and this story gets the proper exposure it should.

Fortunately for the poker world as a whole, more and more players are willing to make public these types of shenanigans, and although its unlikely to help them receive compensation, it just may prevent the next player from getting “Chino’ed”.