Britney Jing has responded to C Ye’s claim that she failed to pay an $18,000 poker staking debt, publishing a detailed timeline of their relationship and private messages that appear to show C Ye later telling her to forget the balance and treat it as money for a bag.
The dispute became public after C Ye released a video titled The Truth Behind Britney’s Unpaid Debt to C Ye, with an English-language version subsequently circulated for poker fans who do not speak Chinese. C Ye alleged that Jing had agreed to take 30% of her action, but failed to pay $18,000 after an approximately $60,000 losing session.
Now Jing has given her side, and the story is considerably messier than a simple unpaid staking bill.
“I have no outstanding debts, and I have always paid out my shares right away,” Jing wrote before laying out a chronology stretching from an alleged discrepancy in an earlier private game to the eventual collapse of her friendship with C Ye.
Britney Says the $18K Was Eventually Forgiven
Jing does not deny that an $18,000 figure existed between the pair.
According to her version, C Ye played an off-stream Hustler Casino game on June 11 when their staking arrangement had already become unclear. Jing says they had not confirmed any action before the game, but when C Ye later sent her the amount she had lost, Jing nevertheless agreed to cover it because it was the first session where the arrangement had not been clearly established.
The relationship deteriorated further over the following weeks.
Jing says she eventually offered to pay the money on June 16 on the condition that they stopped contacting one another. According to Jing, C Ye declined and instead continued attempting to repair their friendship.
The most significant new evidence comes from screenshots Jing posted from a private WeChat conversation dated July 1.
In the exchange, the person Jing identifies as C Ye repeatedly apologises and says she wants the opportunity to make things right.
“I really was very wrong,” one translated message reads.
Another says: “Any way of making it up to you is fine.”
The conversation then turns to their financial account. The messages appear to read:
“Then let’s forget our account.”
“Consider it me buying you a bag.”
Jing says this was the $18,000 now at the centre of C Ye’s accusation and that she consequently considered the matter settled.
The screenshot itself does not display the $18,000 figure, so it cannot independently establish which specific balance the pair were discussing. It does, however, appear to provide support for Jing’s claim that C Ye told her a financial account between them could be forgotten and framed the amount as money for a bag.
Messages Show Their Friendship Was Already Falling Apart
The same conversation provides considerably more context about how personal the dispute had become.
C Ye appears to tell Jing that she knows Jing’s opinion of her has deteriorated and that further explanations may be useless. Jing then challenges her over an earlier promise or oath and asks why she would swear something was true if her actions had not been deliberate.
C Ye responds that she did not believe at the time that what she had done was intentional. She also refers to having sworn something relating to becoming wealthy, saying that she had thought it would not matter if she never became rich because she simply did not want Jing to remain angry with her.
When Jing asks what matters if money does not, the response is direct.
“You are important.”
“I think relationships between people are the most important.”
Those messages do not establish what happened in the poker games themselves, but they do show that the dispute involved considerably more than a routine staking settlement.
Jing Raises a Much More Serious Venetian Allegation
Jing’s response also contains a separate allegation that is potentially more serious than the disputed $18,000.
She says she owned 30% of C Ye in an off-stream game at the Venetian on June 7 involving players including Nik Airball, Rampage and Big Mike. Jing says she was heavily intoxicated during the game and that approximately $80,000 appeared to be missing when the players later attempted to reconcile the session.
According to Jing, C Ye reported winning $190,000.
Several days later, Jing says another player who had been watching the stacks closely told her he believed C Ye had actually won approximately $280,000. Jing says that would leave a discrepancy of roughly $90,000, although she refers to approximately $80,000 when describing the amount she believed was missing.
Jing claims she later asked Venetian staff about surveillance from the June 7 game and was told C Ye had held “way more than $200K” in chips. She says they ultimately decided not to pursue access to the footage after casino staff discussed the possible consequences of taking the matter further.
There is currently no footage publicly establishing Jing’s version of events, and Poker Type has not independently verified the alleged chip count or the conversation with Venetian staff.
Jing herself acknowledges the limitation. She says she did not raise the accusation publicly at the time because she had no video evidence and did not want to damage C Ye’s reputation if her suspicion was wrong.
C Ye Had Challenged Jing to Produce Evidence
That claim directly addresses one of the strongest points made in C Ye’s original video.
C Ye argued that it would have been extremely difficult to misreport her results because streamed games were recorded and Jing was often present in private games. She challenged Jing to produce evidence of any dishonest accounting and reportedly offered to repay many times any amount that could be proven.
Jing’s response is that the particular game she disputes was not streamed.
“In her video she specifically said it’d be impossible to steal money from stream since everything was tracked, but the game with suspected misreporting was not streamed,” Jing wrote.
That distinction does not prove that C Ye misreported anything. It does, however, explain why Jing says the publicly available HCL records cannot resolve her particular allegation.
An $18K Dispute That Is No Longer Really About $18K
The original story looked fairly simple. C Ye said Jing owned 30% of her action, C Ye lost approximately $60,000, and Jing therefore owed $18,000 that had never been paid. Contemporary reporting also noted that the pair had shared HCL tables during the period in which the staking arrangement allegedly operated.
Jing’s response complicates almost every part of that story.
She accepts that the $18,000 balance existed, but says C Ye later explicitly told her to forget it. She has now produced messages that appear consistent with that account, although they do not identify the amount being forgiven.
She has also accused C Ye of potentially underreporting an earlier off-stream win, something C Ye has denied more broadly and which currently remains unproven.
Then there is everything surrounding the money. Jing lists private jet flights, hotel rooms, meals and other expenses she says she covered for C Ye and her boyfriend, although gifts and comps would not by themselves cancel a poker debt unless both parties had agreed that they did.
“This isn’t really about $18K,” Jing wrote. “I go all-in blind for that amount.”
On that much, both sides now appear to have demonstrated their point.
What began as a staking dispute has become an argument about friendship, trust, private-game accounting and exactly what was meant when one player apparently told another to forget the money and buy herself a bag instead.
