Like I said, I believe he is cheating lol.

Also he is clearly running above EV (someone showed the equity in AI pots).

Also this seems to be in character. He claimed himself to have called AI before with 23o because he "knew" the guy had AK (lol). Weather or not this is true we don't know.

Like I said before I believe he is cheating, but I also believe that ridiculous plays like that (that you or me would never ever do) are completely in character.

That's called a losing player.

Anyone can be a massive loser in a "small game" and claim to be a winner in bigger games.

Wow, I can't believe ESPN already has a story aired about this

Forgive me folks if this question is answered somewhere in this huge thread, I've tried to read a lot of this but geez, this is going to dwarf War & Peace

Anyway, how do we know Postle played almost exclusively in games with cameras?

Thats seems hard to know and verify

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/381941687?t=9392s 2:36:32

Here we can see mike spend some time on his phone. I am speculating he is reprogramming something possibly because we have 2 players sitting out. Im speculating He has to reset his app because we are no longer 9 handed. Again thats not out of the realm of possibility. O and by the way rediculousness happens the very next hand.

This.

Don't forget that Mike is the owner of 'local deals by text', a mobile text messaging app. https://www.manta.com/c/mrscn20/local-deals-by-text

Backup screenshot:

oh chit didnt think about that. good point. he/they are triple hosed.

Hope he paid his taxes as well (i'll go with NO he didnt). IRS is the nut low of someone you want in your face. they are ruthless.

This hit me right in the feels, well said. And nice work 2+2 with the constant digging!

Sorry, double post, I forgot how 2+2 works.

I guess I didn't write it very well. He didn't lose in the games, but he also didn't crush them. What I mean is just that he splashed around a lot, trying to create action just to have a fun time at the table while talking and drinking. Definitely the vibe of not taking it as seriously when he played those games, but he didn't dump money at the table or anything. He was always great for the games because he got everybody else going. Also from talking about hands with him many times, you also get a vibe of whether they're good or not, if that makes sense.

I really do believe he was winning quite a bit online (just don't believe 2 million). I've hung out with him when he's played 10/25 online so I know he played that during that time, he had a decent house, car and all of that and would gamble high in the pit games while just playing cards for a living. I'm not trying to defend the guy in the least, it's just weird when people write backstories about how this all makes sense because he was a losing player all his life and all kinds of weird stuff I saw throughout the thread. And you talking about him being a massive loser in the game.

He was good, he was just never Stones Live good and he was definitely a bit of a Tunica local celebrity. Once again, not defending him, just filling in some of the backstory that I do know of.

Feels like this saga is going to give new meaning to the phrase "going postal"

yes, listen to his podcast (its hilarious btw, I like Mikey but he's all over the map)

I spent 7.5 years battling them. Ruthless is an understatement.

Hard to believe he could pull this off solo, conspiracy charges change the sentencing dramatically. For the worse. Not sure when it crosses into racketeering, but gambling is a predicate offense. Since cash was moved around and possibly via apps...Wire Fraud.

The outrage from the poker community will be more pressure to set an example if guilty. I'd not want to be any of the people involved.

I for one appreciate the confirmation of the backstory and poker history.

This guy Justin's name is getting thrown around as being an accomplice, and he might be, but he'd have to be the most brazen cheater of all time. The second name that's mentioned sporadically but not really at the forefront is this Taylor Smith. If Taylor Smith was responsible for the graphics when they switched that 9,8s hand, I don't see how Taylor COULDN'T be in on it.

Im-postle-able

I saw someone post on twitter that Justin's username on here was "Imnotthedevil".
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/321251/

I was just watching Joey's new video where he was observing Justin in the booth with Mike where Justin was joking about Mike "victimising" the entire table.

At 38:28 in the video below Justin says to Mike: "I think you might have sold you soul to the devil".



https://youtu.be/Gaek0o6eYTo?t=2308

Justin seems really creepy to me.

The username "Imnotthedevil" struck me as kind of odd and creepy especially because it seems like Justin likes to portray himself as a nice/clean guy.

Do you have a site or screename that you can remember from this? Any help for the class action would be appreciated I'm sure.

It's been posted before, but the only screenname of his I know is the Yngman4quiki or however it's spelled nickname. That's what he used mostly on UB. I don't know if he played other sites but he played on UB a ton, I think maybe he was even an affiliate of some sort at some point? Or maybe he was just friends with a lot of UB pros, I have no clue.

EDIT: It's It's actually yngmann4quiki, two n's

My last hand of the night we have a keeper. Imagine this mike has q 10 and flops top two, and his opponent flops bottom set of 3s. The graphics try to be wrong on this one but they cant be as we can see from the camera. Odd stuff, odd hand, 10 dollar river bets, and god mode mike. Take a look!!!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/381941687?t=10989s 3:03:09

Wouldn't the better cheating play for this situation on the river be to check and let him bet instead of leading? 89h has to bet here right? I mean he for sure isn't calling. Very stupid cheating play IMO. Or he is just totally confident that Bryan will go next-level and raise I guess?

To play devil's advocate here, this hand looks like a point for Mike.

There actually is a graphics error proving they can happen (though it is not fixed at any point in the hand)
He never feels the side of his head.
He has his phone on the table.
He bet/calls flop drawing to 4 outs.
He bets $540 ott in a spot where he shouldn't expect a fold if he knows his opponent's cards.
River's weird but not suspicious iyam. River would be suspicious in isolation but not with fl/tu play.

No. Working with others in planning a crime and acting in furtherance of the plan is a conspiracy. Just because you plan/work with another does not mean it's fraud. Fraud is a specific type of crime: cheating in a card game is not fraud, it's cheating. And no one is going to be charged with conspiracy. One gets charged with conspiracy when you plan a crime, act in furtherance of that plan BUT NOT actually commit the crime (i.e. Police arrest you before you carry out the crime). MP actually cheated, he already committed the offense, it's no longer conspiracy once you commit the crime.

both these hands show problems with the card reader that seem unrelated to off-setting MP's God-moding (and are not just replicating the cards from the previous hand in error)

In the second hand I guess MP is planning to put in a big bluff on a spade river (or catch a Q or a T)?

If officially found guilty, I am wondering what the punishments will be, how much he will have to pay, how much jail time??

Ya the QT hand is very un Super User like.