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Originally Posted by hAmThEkIlLeR
To Mike's statement about most feard players in Tunica 2003-2008:
Negranu, Greenstein, and Scotty Nguyen played the most often there, along with Moneymaker of course. Ivy showed up occasionally. You can look them up on the leaderboards with a quick search. Guess whose name doesn't come up on a leaderboard during that time period?
I haven't been on 2+2 in many years but this thread brought me back. I used to play with Mike a lot back in exactly those years 2003-2008 in Tunica and I knew him fairly well outside of the tables as well. I just wanted to shed some light on some parts of that at least. Mike was definitely considered one of the better players in Tunica during that time and he had a "celebrity aura" at the casino even back then. All the dealers, floors and players would seemingly look up to him. The local game was an uncapped $2/5 that played huge, with a lot of people buying in 10k deep even back then. Postle was definitely not god-moding like he is now, but he was very LAG and liked to drink at the table and gamble a lot back then and he was a good poker player. I don't think of him as a live game crusher back then but in all fairness I don't think I've played many sessions with him when he actually tried. It always felt like he was blowing off steam and gambled for fun when he played live.
He didn't play that cashgame regularly however, as I know he was grinding 10/25 cashgames on UB at the same time. He would just pop in on occasion a few times a month and just splash around in the games with the attitude of it being a way smaller game than what he normally plays. He did this for years. The local 40 dollar Monday rebuy tournament he would usually get drunk and try to set rebuy records (and he won that very tournament a few dozen times).
I don't know if he was a 2 million winner as he claims, but he was beating the games, definitely had money and I know he was playing 10/25+ headsup on there. It's all just such a clusterfk to hear all this about him afterwards... surreal.