couple of thoughts from a random lurker:
1. No one is playing anyone HU and no one should waste time on the idea. If Postle gets owned it doesn't prove anything and if he wins it also doesn't prove anything, but would provide 'evidence' that he's legit to his defenders/dumb people.
2. Digging into whether Postle was a good online player in the 2000s is a meaningless derail. It doesn't matter. We have hundreds of hours of evidence over the course of a year of blatant cheating. There is no level of poker ability that could possibly explain it away, so why bother. To me, trying to verify whether he is or was a great player is implicitly accepting the idea that what he's done on these streams is possible (i.e. possible while not cheating), which it isn't.
3. I think a lot of the talk about the commentators is unfair and dumb. People getting into illuminati/qanon territory of finding secret codes and hidden messages in everything they say, that shows everyone was in on it. Like, everyone has made jokes about a great player or a guy on a heater being a superuser or able to see through the cards or whatever - it doesn't mean anything but it seems shocking because in this case, he actually could. Having read every post in this thread and watched several of Joey's videos, I haven't seen anything yet that makes me think anyone is suspect except Postle, Justin and Taylor. You have to keep in mind that you're seeing lowlights of the most egregious hands from a year's worth of cheating. I don't think any commentator (Justin and Taylor excluded) did anything wrong except be annoying, kind of stupid, and not great at poker, none of which are crimes.
I think it would be more useful for the community to stop pulling random speculations out of our collective ass, and if you want to do something helpful then dig in to the old sessions that haven't been covered:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=2044248290
Those are all the sessions, pick one and go digging. There's definitely a lot more to find in here.
Also, it would be great to have a google doc or something that has all the most suspicious hands, with timestamped links to the vids, for easy access/reference. Perhaps split into hands that are particularly suspicious poker-wise (86o bluff, KK fold, QT fold, 88 call etc) and the ones that are suspicious behaviour-wise (rubbing the head, knowing when the RFID hasn't read cards, saying 'you scared me' to the guy with 64s etc). Would be happy to help contribute to something like that.