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Originally Posted by Pls try to bluf
Someone should make a video compilation of everytime Postle laughs in the other players face.
The video should start by juxtaposing his Stones interview where he brags about waving money in a security workers face and mocking him for his minimum wage job, interstitched with his Matusow interiew where he claims he doesn't care about money/ego, he's the nicest/most humble person ever, etc.
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Originally Posted by ChicagoJoey
I don't have any call to action about the commentators - I think they are incredibly suspicious.
Don't need to debate ad nauseum but I'm digging in my heels there's major hindsight bias. This is the first time there's ever been a livestream cheating scandal. As soon as the idea that cheating is even a possibility is even planted in your brain it's going to totally change how you perceive everything. With all the evidence in our face, many people are still skeptical - so people who are commentating (itself a distracting job) are supposed to make incredibly bold, public, and unprecedented accusations of the organization that hired them?
Here's some food for thought for people who are suspicious of commentators: there's at least one player who PLAYED with and LOST MONEY to Postle that made a vlog complimenting his play rather than accusing him of cheating.
If something like this had ever happened before I would give the commentators much more grief for not being suspicious. But this is an unprecedented scandal.
And for all we know, some commentators may have made those accusations privately, we wouldn't know. I think Veronica deserves a TON of credit for being brave enough to take this public. If she was wrong, SHE might have trouble being welcomed back into a poker scene.
I am, of course, not ruling out that any commentator COULD be in on it (although if I was inside man I'd see no reason to cut them in). I'm just stating that their lack of public accusation against Postle before Veronica, to me is zero reason to be suspicious of them. I also laugh at people who even implicate Veronica. I would bet my net worth that Veronica is in the clear because if she's in on it there's a tiny chance she'd face jail time and why the hell would she ever risk prison time for something that has extremely little upside and massive potential downside?
JFK is the one who had accusations taken to him by commentators and top pros . Cheating WAS planted in his head. He does not have the commentators excuse to say he just wasn't considering that angle. And he didn't just do fail to find evidence, he actively discouraged further investigation. I'm seeing more evidence linking Taylor to it which is also interesting, but even then I like Postle/JFK/Taylor more than just Postle/Taylor.
JFK feeding Postle was the explanation put forth last week that cleanly explains every piece of evidence put forth so far. People want to theorycraft all sorts of other explanations, but the simplest one is still there, still sitting strong, and has not been disproven whatsoever.