lol, maybe he wants to see if he has big enough balls ?

Gotta be Mike

The math has been posted many times. It is not very tough to do.
I've been on 2p2 for well over a decade. No honest player has ever claimed winrates like this.

Thank for your insights. Much appreciated. I wish you were in charge of the investigation!

my opinion are that these types of people are attention seekers who have very little social awareness, very unintelligent, and are also extremely lazy. so they jump in with their first thought and just love the attention they are getting so they keep at it. Its never going to be Mike, he wouldnt post in here, and if he did, we would never know it, im sure hes lurking though.

If the authorities or gaming commission aren’t involved, there is no investigation.

Potentially Mike himself or an accomplice(s). They could easily just swap the PC's hard drive out and into a pocket and swap it with a clone.

I'm wondering if you're viewing it as a Hollywood-style "hack". There would be no "hacking" involved in this type of scam. There's screensharing software for free everywhere, not to mention OBS is already loaded on the hole card computer, which is screensharing/broadcasting/recording software that can stream out to private links in addition to public links.

The gaming commission is involved for sure.

So far, from what I have read here and other places, 2 things are for sure, Gaming commission is involved and a civil lawsuit is in the works.

Them when forensics are done, it will show a new harddrive. That is also a very bad thing for them.

Can you provide a link where the California Gaming Commission has confirmed that there is an active investigation?

Yeah, he explains all his rediculous calls pre with some logic like that.

He said that someone will give him a random hand for the night and say, “I want you to win a big pot with XX!”, and Postle says “no problem”
That in itself is pretty damning.
Tell GMAN (or any other crusher) to play a huge pot with 95o on LATB, he’ll tell you to **** off.
Tell a superuser to win a big pot with random cards, no problem chief!

Do you know with 100% certainty that this is true? what evidence do you have to support this claim? if not then please do not mix facts with wishful thinking, it just undermines the entire thread.

This is excellent work.

No, they don't confirm active investigations.

You can't just "swap hard drives out" of computers. What you are describing involves purchasing the exact same hard drive AND preinstalling whatever software is installed on it, then doing a physical break-in of the Stones facility housing the computer.

Again, not saying this has never happened in a case, but you are basically making these people into criminal masterminds. There are very few criminal masterminds in this world, and the ones that do exist aren't pulling off $200k poker scams on live television.

Bless you, sir.

Other than you saying they are investigating "for sure" and perhaps others saying "for sure" how did you conclude such a thing, if not confirmed by the Gaming Commission?

https://pokerfuse.com/poker-podcasts...podcast/15475/

35:30 they start talking about that.

Yeah this exactly.

Most of the time, if the tower is in front of you, all you need is a screwdriver, bro. If this is only a production computer, sitting in the production room, I highly doubt it has any sort of lock on it.
No. At least, to pull it off "perfectly". As long as the computer appears to be running and functioning as normal, no one would be the wiser until they checked how long the computer has been operating within the system itself. Again, you're assuming that I'm thinking they're pulling off some sort of perfect crime. Stop.
Uh, yep.
Why are you assuming it require a physical break-in? The tower could easily just be sitting in the production room AND owned by a third-party.
Saying that they could potentially be destroying evidence = successful mastermind activity?
No idea what this closing point means.

Sorry mate, more people saying "for sure" is not confirmation that the Gaming Commission is actually currently investigating. I would hope that they are; but I nor anyone else (other than the Gaming Commission itself) can actually state definitively that there is a current/ongoing investigation.

Umm, just like I shouldn't dabble in law just because I watch Matlock, you shouldn't dabble in computers because you watch CSI.

Really, wiping and restoring a single-purpose computer like this is so trivial it's not even funny.

Export configuration. Wipe drive. Reinstall windows and drivers from OEM DVD. Reinstall application. Reconfigure and re-apply exported configuration.


FBI: "Hey, why is the install on this machine fresh?"

JFK: "We thought we might have had a backdoor or a trojan, so we wiped it and re-installed everything."

FBI: "You might have destroyed evidence! What were you thinking?"

JFK: "Oh, sorry, we though we had a virus. On a critical machine like this it is SOP to re-install."

FBI: "Grrrrr."

I have been following this thread from the beginning, but got behind on all the replies and wanted to read all before posting with "my" version and non biased observations.

I think it is 99.99% clear that Mike cheated.. there is just no way to defend some plays and the winrate.

This was all investigated by smarter people on here then me, but then we went on the conspiracy theory here a little bit too much in MY opinion....
there was never any proof posted of any device used (apart of the obvious phone)... the bone conducting headset was never proved... the "james Bond keys" where never proved... and in fact they dont even seem that likely.. they MIGHT have tested something like that, but why, if they already had a winning system...

In the last sentence there is a big assumption as well.. i said THEY... why would it be they??

I believe it is VERY WELL possible that Mike is/was doing this all by himself.... The absence of Justin when he as not in God mode could easily be explained by the fact that (for instance.. dont know specifics of course) Mike is a "friend" of Justin and has (unbeknownst to Justin) access to his laptop/login/stream which means he can watch that on his cellphone... Justin appears more of a fanboy then a guilty party most of the time...

The switching of the card on the river is something that happens on a lot of streams and i am not worried about that... Just feel that if Mike told Justin that on his visit to the table, Justin could tell the 'graphics guy" to make the switch when the hand would come up on the stream... the guy forgot and Justin told him "change it goddamit" and the guy did it on the river/showdown moment.....

for me the fact he cheated is 99.99% proven, but the fact he had help i am definitely not more then 20/80.. At least no help to the level some people think here.....At page 120/130 of this thread a lot of posters shied away from Justin, but one rando posts something and he is back in the guilty column again... I DO believe he is at least gullible, but thats a far cry from guilty...

I hope the truth will come out, but i also hope that posters here will stop looking for unicorns as for ME, it is simply of a case of one guy who "cracked the code" or has remote access to the "supercomputer" when his friend (justin) logs in to it........
So many other points like the Justin/Mike interviews during games etc, to bring up as well, but i dont want to make this too long..

Ps.... anyone going to the WSOP-c event in Monterrey/Mexico next week?

Some lul descriptions of MP's playing ability and talent in this thread. I mean when you are playing against a God...

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...0&postcount=14

Yeah, I'm sure Mike did all this. He couldn't even bother not 3bet shoving 62o bottom pair for $1600 but he's covered his tracks perfectly on this. He actually swapped out the entire server for one he had prepared for just this scenario. All his phones were burner phones and the money trail will lead investigators to an 89 year old man named Modesto Cunanan who lives in a small hut just outside a tiny village in the Philippines. When investigators check the security cameras they will discover that all cameras were on a 24 hour loop and haven't recorded anything of significance in the last 18 months.