so damages in a case like this are typically capped at actual damages plus fees,

or treble (which they also mention in filing)

Something else?

Doug posted the PLO hand where Mike the messiah frantically tries to pan his cards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUd8tlRVcFo

Can someone embed please? This is one of the smoking gun examples imo

There's definitely some kind of indication the cards did not scan. The dealers are wearing a headset and will receive instructions to tell the players to scan their cards correctly if they didn't and are in a hand.

Just an observation about this proceeding as a civil suit- despite the gravity of Postle's conduct, the damages are not going to be all that high for each plaintiff.

The actual measure of damages in fraud and conversion actions is out of pocket loss. It's almost impossible to prove that, because you'd have to prove the difference between what you lost when Postle was in God mode and how much you would have won or lost had he played normally.

So instead, what's likely to happen is some sort of disgorgement of profits as a substitute for damages. And you've got a whole bunch of plaintiffs here. So if $250,000 is divided up among these people, you could be looking at people getting between $10,000 and $20,000. It might get trebled under RICO, so you get $750,000 instead. And you might get between one and two times the compensatories as punitives. So the realistic upside of this suit is maybe $1,250,000 against a defendant who perhaps doesn't have that kind of money.

If Postle chooses to mount a defense (which I think is unlikely), the legal fees of all these lawyers is would very easily end up swallowing much of the potential award. If he doesn't, they'll get a default judgment and the chance to go after whatever assets he has, pay their lawyers (if all 4 of those firms listed on the Complaint are billing rather than being there for PR purposes, that could be a significant sum even if it's just for drafting the Complaint and taking it to default judgment), and divide up some small sum of money amongst themselves.

So maybe litigation by press release makes sense in this situation. The real legal throwdown will be if criminal charges are brought.

This is genius, good stuff

Yes the 86o/89ss hand has been talked about extensively, in the past 10 pages or so...including a statement from the guy who makes the software.

It had to have been changed mid hand by the graphics operator. No other explanation. No way for Mike or anyone to alert them to the hand.

According to his own text with Veronica he's a tax cheat dating back to the Full Tilt/Ultimate Bet days. And on the podcast with Matusow he claimed that he had won half of what people are speculating or about 125k.

Even if he did lose all the money gambling on sports you still have to report the winnings from poker and the losses from sports betting. Mike is going to get audited so hard. Let the IRS get him like they got Capone. Guy is a ****ing poker cheat and a tax cheat.

By chance, is the guy that's running your IT Department named JFK?

Apparently Cali has a 5k limit on declaring winnings, so Postle was getting someone else to cash in his chips.

That can easily be verified too with the video recordings from the cage.

He is in deep crap.

So much great stuff in that doc.

So it seems they think Mike had just one co-conspirator (almost certainly the person named here), although they leave room for more.

And clearly they are going after Stones for the big payday, blaming the casino for the lack of security, and never taking concerns of cheating seriously. All the while promoting the games to unsuspecting victims, etc., etc.

I can see where JFK would need to lawyer up, since it's going to be a mess now between him and the casino, as my guess is they are going to try blame it all on him, as a rogue employee. Not sure if that's going to work, since he was an employee of he casino, and put in charge of the operation.

I suppose the casino will want to show that JFK did not follow standard procedure, did not alert executives of serious issues being raised, etc., etc. Not sure if any of this is true, but I would assume the casino will try their best now to distance themselves from JFK.

By the way, when do the police show up and start arresting people?

I think you get money from the perp and the establishment, they neglected and tried to cover it up.

If they said they invesigated, GC should have been involved long ago.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Police don't arrest people because a civil lawsuit is filed. Police arrest people when the police believe a person committed a crime.

Based on my read, they're not only alleging negligence by JFK, but that he is John Doe 1, feeding Postle, and his his chief accomplice. See #68 on page 14 & #102 on page 23.

I think the best way you're going to get Mike is to scare the crap out of his back room accomplice, then offer a deal and get him to roll over on Mike.

However for that you need cops. The Gaming Commission isn't going to put the fear of God in someone. Do we know if the cops are even interested in this case?

I don't know anything about the CGCC - but if they're anything like the rest of California politics - they're utterly corrupt and might have similar motivations to just make this go away as Stones does.

Then I suppose Mike is not alone in having problems with the IRS? If you helped Mike cash out to avoid declaring income, aren't you now involved in a felony?

This situation is similar to the 86o that got changed to 98s, except just one card got changed. Apologies if this has been asked before. It shows that in the stream it is possible to edit the RFID info separately from the live images, and in both these cases, the editing was done exactly at the timestamp at which the stream left into the outside world. What is the logical explanation for why the editing is not done at a timestamp on the stream before this happens, so that noone will notice it? Is it Taylor who monitors the outgoing stream and edits it on the fly?

It is also Taylor who monitors the RFID info as it gets recorded and warns MP when a JJ is read as J4o? Half an hour before the stream leaves the building.

Is Taylor an octopus in disguise?

Great stuff - JOEY add this into your next investigation video!

I understand that. My question wasn't so much in light of this civil suit. It was more in light of the investigation here and other places on-line over the past 4-5 days, and now making it's way into the mainstream press, with very compelling evidence that crimes have likely taken place. Major crimes, involving the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars. And because some of that evidence is likely on servers and laptops within the casino, wouldn't the police want to take possession of that as evidence?

I am sure the IRS will be involved now at least. In this situation, doesn't the IRS get their cut of any back taxes and penalties(If anything is owed to them), before any lawsuit money is paid out?

Id appreciate it if somebody could get this to Joey.

Yeah, lawyers all think they are hot **** but there isn't a lawyer alive that could hold a candle to Joe Jamail.



So, they're more like Joe Jamail? You should put Mike Postle into contact with them because he's gonna need someone really really good.

I don't get this. What do you mean by 5k limit on declaring winnings? Do you mean that in California; 5k is the threshold for declaring gambling winnings? If you win 4k you don't have to declare it as income and at 5k and above you do? If so, why would such a threshold mean "Postle was getting someone else to cash in his chips?" I can give my wife all my chips to cash in while I go to the bathroom. So what? Having someone else cash my chips doesn't mean I haven't declared my income from gambling.

Dump RFID and fo back to cameras.