Just playing devil's advocate here - and I'm not as familiar with this case as you, so apologies ahead of time if I misunderstand something. But I think this is a v interesting situation and wanted to chime in with an alternative view:
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Originally Posted by concerned pro
this was posted by a reg on the french forum. i agree. victoriamo 100% used gto assistance software. there are very few people who can mimic gto to that deviation
Why can't he be one of those very few people? I mean, by definition of this investigation, if he is innocent he will be one of the very best at this game. That he is an outlier doesn't really prove anything.
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so victoriamo was able to 6-8 table for 8 hours a day ... why was he playing gto vs fish?
I think that answers your own question. The way to play great GTO 6-8 tables, 8 hours a day, is because he does not try to deviate.
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when did he get the time to study, and improve his game??
6-8 hours a day of play, 2-3 hours a day of study/review? Maybe a custom designed system that runs through all his decisions post-match, shows where he deviated, collates it into a form of systematic review to optimize his post-match review time?
I don't think it's that far fetched with this much money on the line. I played SNGs professionally I wrote custom tools that did something not too dissimilar, automatically finding similar spots and automatically send them all over SNG Wizard to find mistakes. I didn't play at his level (in terms of time and far from his skill), but I did probably 5 hours of play, 2 hours of review a day; wouldn't surprise me someone at the absolute top of the game did the same. And with this much money on the line, a sophisticated post-match GTO review too seems quite plausible.
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tables is definitely mentaly fatiguing, the wina admin said himself, "his reaction time was off/slower when he was forced to play live.
I would think without certain bounds, this is acceptable. He's under an increased stress situation, playing in a different environment, presumably different seat/desk, maybe different computer/keyboard/mouse.
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how come he never played in the same game as twopandas?
I think this is perhaps the most troubling aspect for me. It suggests the two soft-colluded on games they selected; in and of itself, there's nothing wrong with that; but if twopandas has now been found "guilty" I guess there is some guilt by association, if there two have a personal relationship like this.