Mike Postle Poker Cheat Needs a Face Punch. Guys like this are the scum of the earth

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[ Long story short... This guy got caught (pretty much) getting other players' hole cards, by getting the RFID
reader information sent to him in real time during the hands. For obvious reasons, the live TV stream of the
cards is delayed 20 minutes. ]

[h=1]Poker Players Sue Stones Gambling Hall, Mike Postle for $30 Million in Alleged Cheating Case[/h]Stones Gambling Hall, the California cardroom at the center of a possible poker cheating scandal, has been named in a $30 million lawsuit brought by 24 players who believe they have been financially harmed by the alleged scam. Also named is Mike Postle, the player who plaintiffs believe was relayed information about their hole cards during a series of Stone Live Poker cash game streams by person or persons unnamed.
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Analysis of Mike Postle’s poker hands on Stones Live Poker revealed a quality of play that was “multiple degrees higher than that achieved by the best poker players in the world,” states the lawsuit. (Image: Stones Live Poker)
If the cheating allegations are true — and they are yet to be proven categorically — Postle’s accomplice must have been a member of the Stones Live Poker technical staff, or at least had access to the back end of the radio frequency identification (RFID) system that reads players cards for broadcast.
According to the lawsuit, the players claim they believe they know who this might have been, but are “cognizantly refraining from making such an allegation against this particular Defendant … until further information can be gleaned through the discovery process.”
The suspected accomplice is referred to as “John Doe 1” in the lawsuit.
The cardroom itself is not accused of complicity in the alleged cheating. But the lawsuit claims Stones “continually sought to downplay” complaints that cheating had occurred, while simultaneously “promoting Mr. Postle as an idiosyncratically gifted individual imbued with poker skills so immense as to be incomprehensible to the average person.”
[h=2]Internet Sleuths[/h]The “discovery process” is largely being conducted online in numerous public forums, as well as by well-known poker bloggers like Joey Ingram, Doug Polk and Matt Berkey.
Since the allegations surfaced in late September, when former commentator on the show Veronica Brill took to Twitter to air her concerns, forum members have pored over footage to analyze hands and discuss the statistical implausibility of Postle’s play and win-rates.
Postle did not win every session he played on the streams during a period of more than a year. But according to the lawsuit, “plaintiffs have information and a belief that such sessions correlate to the absence of Mr. Postle’s chief confederate, John Doe 1.”

On those occasions, Postle played sub-optimally, the lawsuits states. The rest of the time, analysis of his play revealed “statistics not only unfathomable in the world of professional poker, but, too, situation decision-making in which almost every so-called guess to be made by Mr. Postle is done so in a manner that optimally benefits his monetary interest.
“In short, Mr. Postle’s poker winnings – considered in the prism of both metrics and hand-for-hand decision making – on Stones Live Poker have been not merely outliers but, in fact, exponential outliers, representing a quality of play multiple degrees higher than that achieved by the best poker players in the world,” it continues.
Postle is estimated to have won roughly $250,000 during the sessions.
[h=2]Keep It Under Your Hat[/h]The suit also notes that Postle only ever played the Stones Live Poker stream sessions, despite many other similar streams being available elsewhere in California, and rarely hung around afterwards to play in normal games once the stream had finished.
The plaintiffs allege Postle either received information about hole cards via his cell phone, which was habitually held in his left hand concealed under the poker table, or via a communications device embedded in his baseball cap, or both.
The complaint alleges racketeering, fraud, negligence, and unjust enrichment against Postle and his unnamed accomplice or accomplices, and negligence on behalf of the cardroom. It brings a further accusation of fraud against Stone’s poker room manager, Justin Kuraitis, for allegedly covering up the situation, which allowed the purported scam to go on longer than it should have.
Plaintiffs are seeking damages of $10 million from Postle, $10 million from Stones Gambling Hall, and $10 million from Kuraitis.
 
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If anyone doubts that this fucking scumbag was cheating, watch him frantically try to get the card reader to rescan his hand (3:00), while looking down
into his lap (why would you do this, when you already know what you are holding?) because the reader was only picking up 2 cards during PLO.
It obviously was set to be on hold-em and not PLO.

 
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FAQ:

Q: Who is Mike Postle?
A: Mike Postle is a long time poker pro. He is suspected of having cheated at the video-streamed pokertable at Stones Gambling Hall in Sacramento

Q: How much money has Postle won from other players in these games?
A: Approximation is $250k (source https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=1066 )

Q: How statistically deviant is his play?
A: Very. Some calculations put it as more unlikely than 1 to the number of atoms in the universe. See bb/100 vs VPIP graph: https://i.gyazo.com/9640d7665da6f5fb...c935334fbb.png (Source unknown)

Q: How do people think he cheated?
A: Likely via getting the exact holecards of his opponents relayed to his phone which he keeps very discretely between his legs while playing, and/or to bone conductive headphones hidden under his hat. This would likely require access to the actual live feed from the RFID/tech-room

Q: Who is Justin Kuraitis?
A: An employee and TD of Stones Gambling hall. He's responsible for the tech team that runs the livestream. He's for a multitude of reasons suspected to be Mike's possible inside man in the possible cheating scheme

Q: But Postle doesn't always win when he plays
A: True. He has had losing sessions on stream where he plays quite normally. They seem to coincide with Justin Kuraitis being out of town.

Q: Is the stream commentated on in real time when the play takes place, or on delay?
A: It's commented on delay, as all streams of this kind are. Only the RFID tech room has (read: should have) access to the actual live footage and hands. They then set up the graphics etc, and transmit that footage delayed to the commentary booth and viewers.

Q: Who is Taylor Smith?
A: Another tech team employee of Stones Live Casino. Some consider him suspect due to his involvement in correcting holecards for a crazy hand Mike played, among other things. It's still unclear what Mike's actual holecards were in that infamous hand (68o, or 89ss). T.S may be entirely innocent and should be treated as such, just as Postle and Kuraitis should be until found guilty in a court of law

Q: Why is this blowing wide open just now this week?
A: A former employee and commentator of the stream, @Angry_Polak, took to twitter. @joeingram1 took her allegations seriously, as opposed to many others she had previously raised her suspicions to, and then the ball started rolling

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Longer cliff-notes/Summary: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=1045

Pokernews links:
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2019/...ames-35562.htm
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2019/...tion-35584.htm
 

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Why was he allowed to have his phone in use at the table
 
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Why was he allowed to have his phone in use at the table

Good question. I've found that most poker rooms allow the use of cell phones, though it seems pretty clear - and I think this instance will
eventually lead to this decision - that any time RFID readers are used, that all electronic devices should be banned at the tables.
 

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this story is about a month old now and still im not sure how he isnt paying for it. once they told him no phone he went to some type of key fob. then they believed something was in his hat
 
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I think the most remarkable part of the whole thing is that some of those guys who got their asses handed to them and lost thousands of $$$'s to the guy never took the time to rewatch the streams. It takes about 5 minutes to realize the guy was cheating and doing things that nobody in the world would be doing unless they knew their opponents cards.
 

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Good question. I've found that most poker rooms allow the use of cell phones, though it seems pretty clear - and I think this instance will
eventually lead to this decision - that any time RFID readers are used, that all electronic devices should be banned at the tables.

Hope not. I love using my phone at the table
 

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