Is the poker star cheating? Phil Ivey was accused of cheating at Baccarat by the Genting Group in a British High Court on Thursday, after he made $11.9 million playing baccarat with a partner last August. 

The disputed game was on August 20-21 of last year, at Crockford's, one of London's oldest and most traditionally respected casinos. 

Last month, poker star, Phil Ivey, filed a claim against the Genting Group in London's High Court with his lawyers saying the casino refused to pay Ivey the money he had won playing baccarat at Crockford's, which is owned by the Genting Group. 

The Genting Group, representing Crockford's responded by saying the poker star cheated. Saying his winnings were not valid because "based upon illegal acts," accusing the poker star of cheating.

Yesterday, Ivey released a statement through his lawyers responding to the allegations by the casino, that the poker star cheated:

"The fact that I have issued a lawsuit in the face of what they are alleging says everything about how comfortable I am with my conduct and the validity of my win. Any allegations of wrongdoing by Crockfords are denied by me in the very strongest of terms."

The poker star cheating scandal is amped up when you consider just how big a poker star the 37-year-old Ivey, really has become. He's amassed a reported $100 million fortune from his dealings in online poker and television poker's surge in popularity in the early '00s. He's won 8 World Series of Poker bracelets in his career, but he's also won the World Poker Tour title and a host of other lesser tournaments and appearances.

But the Genting Group claims the poker star cheats.

In court documents obtained by Fox News, the Genting Group claims the poker star played with a "significant advantage" over the casino because Ivey could ascertain the first card out of the set of decks, and whether they it was a 7, 8 or 9, which are the best cards in the type of baccarat Ivey and his female companion were playing. 

The poker star, Ivey, and his female friend found a "shoe" of cards with an asymmetrical design on their backs. The poker star had asked for an Asian dealer so Ivey's female friend could speak to the dealer without the casino understanding. 

Ivey's female companion spoke Cantonese, like the dealer, and she was able to convince the dealer, after the cards were revealed, to turn the card either sideways or end over end. The dealer didn't think this was suspicious since Ivey's female companion said she was superstitious and just changing the position of the cards for good luck, the court papers say.

After the change of the position of the cards, the casino maintains the poker star, Ivey, and his companion had made it so that 7, 8 and 9 cards were distinguishable from the others. Ivey then asked the dealer to shuffle the cards automatically by the machine, which meant the arrangement of the cards was not altered as the game progressed. The poker star cheats, is what the casino maintains.