I'm thinking back to that bright blue screen - wondering if there is something even simpler like going into the properties/deck registry for cards since that is all you need - small text would also be less detectable than actual images of cards. I would also not rule out the possibility for more than 1 accomplice - could be easier to keep a secret for longer if there's a tight group in the back each time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aGD...ature=youtu.be

THANK YOU GUMPNSTEIN for the vid!

Now LETS GIET'IM!!!

Is this why his left hand is usually on his lap? To allow him to adjust the screen to see particular seats better? Since they are all in a row, he can focus in on 2 or 3 players' hole cards at a time for better visibility, and set this up in advance (before he begins his session). Then, once he's at the table, he uses his hidden left hand to swipe to focus on seats 1-3, or 4-6, etc., etc., depending on what interests him during a particular hand.

With a bit of practice, he would be able to do this without looking, so when he finally did look down at his own cards, then peeked under the table, he would have the right seat teed up for him to view. This would ensure good visibility. But it would require his hand under the table to swipe the screen as required. And to keep the screen from locking.

Says the person who initially brought up his CIA employment and then posted 3 or 4 times again about it (with some incorrect/incomplete info pointed out). Did they not train you about hypocrisy at the farm? I'd wager you were an admin puke, food services support, something along those lines perhaps? - Bond, James Bond.

Also, I think that before we go denigrating anyone's service (Lance), there should be absolute proof or a confession before casting shame on his or anyone else who may be involved past or present military service.

That would be my guess.

Has to be more locals ITT who haven't been rendered busto by family court and are still in the game.

He's taking about FLB, Rancho and Magnolia being where he's done all this crushing? Wtf? Does FLB (a bowling alley) still spread games? Aren't we talking maybe 10 tables total here?

Who ITT has observed him crushing it at Capital or Thunder Valley (understand he has a handful of cashes there over the years)?

Another clarification: It would be suicidal for a phone, or non authorized device, to VNC directly into the PokerGFX server. There would be logs for days, your MAC address, IP or device ID. To me, it seems necessary that a device that is expected to be logged into the PokerGFX VNC is being used as a proxy, and Postle is VNCing into *that* authorized computer.

This does open it up for the possibility he hacked someone without their knowledge, but that is less likely given the expectation that the main PokerGFX server is only logged into for calibration, and maybe occasionally to fix graphics/chipstacks.

The added part is that a certain someone often has his laptop locked up. Almost religiously. Their personal laptop.

Excellent points, I forgot about him keeping his hand under the table. That would explain how he could keep panning/zooming around the VPN screen to get the full tables' worth of cards.

Cool. Thanks for the free money but that's not my name.

Also, more importantly, where's that live poker sample that proves Mike's winrate/VPIP "violates the laws of the universe"?

I just watched the September 12th, 2018 stream from start to finish and can confirm that Mike did not cheat on this stream.

Early in the night it was mentioned they had just had card reader difficulty and had to swap out cards or repair a new deck with the reader: https://youtu.be/0ze0SvF1Yi4?t=1410 Not sure if that is relevant but I think it's worth noting.

He has his phone above the rail until just after the 38:40 mark where he hides it away (potentially under his leg): https://youtu.be/0ze0SvF1Yi4?t=2320

However, not too long after that he plays this hand passively and then gets blown off the best hand in a multiway pot: https://youtu.be/0ze0SvF1Yi4?t=3840

Later he has the phone back out again and throughout the night he loses multiple pots he could have won if he knew his opponents' cards.

There are lightweight VPN server-side apps that can be configured to not log their logins, and the server itself isn't going to log IP traffic being passed through to a specific applications they're unaware of like a VPN service. The server would only log activity to official system services and ports, like RDP.

My sys admin/devops skills are intermediate at best, and fairly siloed to Linux distros instead of Windows. On Linux using the client/server of the exact VNC app, it does a great job of logging access.

Also, it's not an actual server-server, it's a work station/desktop taking on the function of a dedicated server. Not sure if that changes anything on the Windows side.

Funny, I mentioned that in one post, and I was told my thought was too off and complicated. It was one of the ways I thought it could be done.

With VNC, you’d need to be on the same network. Standard VNC protocol is going to be blocked for incoming connections on a firewall. You’d have to be on the same network or install a reverse proxy to do it.

GFX is WIndows-only so I'm speaking from Windows experience. And by "server" I meant the server side of a client/server pair of apps participating in a protocol, such as VPN.

You are assuming best practices. None of the things you mentioned have to be true. In fact, VNC is accessible to anyone with the login by default. You have to take extra steps to whitelist IPs or subdomains, and/or develop access rules.

Sure, I wanted to give you color because it seems you know more about Windows admin than I do. I have no idea how most apps log in Windows, but I do for Linux. The same VNC setup/client-server app on Linux logs pretty robustly.

After watching just a little of this "commentary" I am convinced that most of the commentators were picked specifically because they know very little about poker, so they wouldn't question all the ridiculous plays by Mike.

So tilting to watch Mike play some hand in an unfathomable way for thousands of dollars while the commentators are not even paying attention, talking about what they had for lunch or someone's new haircut or whatever.

There are ways around having to define a firewall rule that would otherwise prevent unsolicited incoming traffic from reaching an internal node, the easiest being having the app on the protected network initiate an outgoing connection - many router-based stateful firewalls are designed to allow such traffic to occur.

the heat was on from the replay streams more than actually at the table seeing it happen in person

Thanks. And this may also be one of the big reasons he had to look under the table multiple times in certain hands. Because if he screwed up and lost his place on the screen completely, it would be very difficult to get back to his desired location.

He would have to swipe a bit, then check and see where he's at. He could never be seen actively interacting with his phone during a hand. Hence the swipe, view, readjust if off, etc. Network lags could also cause some issues while swiping.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this rarely happened. He only needed to move the screen a bit to the right or left, depending on which seat he needed to view. And I'm sure he got very good at this. But if he lost his place completely for whatever reason, it would have been very difficult to get back where he wanted to be during the hand.

I was always wondering why in some hands (not most), he had to look multiple times under the table. Now I think I know. He had accidentally gotten away from the hole cards and was now lost on the display, and was trying to maneuver his way back to where the hole cards are shown. But to do that during the hand, he would have to do it blindly, then check where he was, move it some more, recheck, etc., etc.

More good points. Btw there wouldn't be any network lags with swiping (ie, panning/zooming ) - the VPN app on his phone would always be receiving the full-screen, full-resolution output from the VPN server, so any zooming/panning would be local to the app and not require additional network requests.

Check out the book "Talking to strangers"
The research on the judicial system vs raw data on bails
And CIA agents might be the best but still really bad
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Ana Montes

It's already been posted days ago. His approximate total winnings and approximate number of hands played were used to estimate his win rate in bbs per 100 hands. It's Potripper territory.

Someone said earlier that the Stones Live stream was on its own network within the casino. Which makes sense, since the guys who run security at the casino were probably hesitant to allow something like this on their network.

I wonder if that's how Mike's accomplice knew he couldn't be easily caught? Nobody outside of his team would know what was going on across that network.