The controversy is that ring. She rolled it around on her finger and then put her hand behind her and then the stone was off her ring. She was definitely cheating.
And her opponent - who went all in with 8 high - was not cheating?
Let’s presume there was a device somehow involved that would allow her to ‘let someone else into the hand.’ Flop the board shows a pair and a suited connecting club and utterly missed your hand. The only thing you’ve got going for you is a jack. Your opponent is drawing on a double ended straight flush.
Why on earth would the third party be telling her to call on that flop? And missing on the turn, there’s a better than coin flip odds that she’s going to lose.
Maybe she broke the cheating device because it was signaling her every inch of the way to fold. I’ve yet to see a commentator go ‘oh, that was a brilliant move’ - you can see how she called putting herself all in and just didn’t want to give over the cards.
First person to put chips in the pot at each round of betting had the best draw and the worst hand. And both read their opponent properly. If you’re folding every time your opponent is on a good draw, you’re going to lose a heck of a lot of money.
And the accusation of a cheating device pales by comparison to players meeting after the game to return money. That a national level pro did it? Beat me and I’ll stalk you after the game? I hope the big money makes the right decision and keeps him from the cash games.