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Originally Posted by mrtoodles
The coincidence of Mike losing superuser powers with Justin's vacations indicates that Justin is involved in the cheating, but not necessarily that he's complicit.
Justin and Mike are pals. Mike is a tech guy. It's entirely possible that Mike helped Justin set up his laptop, and installed a backdoor on it. Stones may be vigilant about the security of its production servers, but fail to pay attention to the security of the devices that can access the live feed from those servers, e.g. the personal devices of anybody with the correct credentials, such as Justin's laptop.
I've read every single post in this thread, and have been shocked that nobody brought this up until now. It is an important point, and would fit the facts currently known better than any other theory that would exculpate Justin, the guy in charge at Stones.
This was floating around in my mind for a day, and I wondered why nobody was bringing up this obvious potential reality. Later, when I watched a video of Justin bringing up hands for Mike to discuss, I asked myself if Justin would really be so bold and stupid to bring up these outrageous hands if he was, in fact, in on it. If you watch Justin's reactions as he asks Mike about these hands, he is the greatest actor in the world if he can show those natural emotions, while knowing full well that the scam is in play.
If there is a shocking surprise here, it will be something obvious like this....that Mike simply had access to Justin's laptop and Justin had no clue, and therefore drank the Kool Aid because he knew nobody could scam the game. It is a possibility here that has gone unmentioned until your insightful post. I sure hope that there are more people like us who were thinking about this angle. If not, it is an embarrassing oversight by many, who otherwise have done an outstanding job sleuthing.