What about using a program like NASA's Lucis? Back in the day law enforcement would often send photos and videos to NASA to get them enhanced. Not sure if this technology is more widespread today or not.

The human eye can only discern like 32 levels of contrast but a typical photograph has 256 levels of contrast (digitally that would be represented as 0 to 255 with 0 equaling black and 255 equaling white). A program like Lucis makes those small differences in contrast large enough for the human eye to discern when it otherwise couldn't.

This does not sound like their reasoning, lawdude. From page 7:

“The plaintiffs have a good faith basis upon which to allege the identify of the person who is John Doe 1…The Plaintiffs, however, are cognizantly refraining from making such an allegaltion against this particular defendant herein until greater information can be gleaned through the discovery process, in recognition of the sensitivity of making such an allegation. If necessary…however, the Plaintiffs are prepared to amend this Complaint and identify John Doe 1 by his legal name…their election to not do so at this time is solely derivative of a desire to be more cautious than required, given the gravity of this matter.”

The picture they paint of John Doe 1 throughout the rest of the complaint line up with numerous points within this thread here, specifically being out of town during a losing session and brushing aside suspicions raised.

To me it seems they are ready to specifically name his as being negligent, just don't want to label him a cheat...yet.

Dougs latest PLO video on Postle is hilarious.

The PokerGFX company guy mentioned the logging function that the software has. I wonder if anybody has ever looked at this to see what kind of actions were taking place. Did Justin look when Veronica first voiced her concerns several months ago?

There might be some juicy info in the logs, like IP address the info was sent to, etc.

You would think if Postle had an inside conspirator, that person would have turned off the logging function. However, maybe not. And, if so, maybe the log would show who disabled it.

There are quite a few episodes outside of the WSOP where Mike didn't cheat when Taylor, Justin or both were present.

that sounds promising, im sure someone in the poker world has got to have a friend who works for NASA, it would probably be easiest to get a hold of a programmer there

Should be interesting to see what Verstanding argues damages could be. theoretically money lost to Postle, if instead was won(or just not lost), could boost a BR for higher stakes and more profit/return. Gonna be juicy.

Edit: O wait, they listed an amount. 10 Mil. Damn lol. Also crazy they just split it evenly, if you played a single hand on stream get yo ass as a plantiff!

Wonder what happens when you put the url into a mobile browser. If it doesn't launch video on it's own, then something like VLC has options on both iOS and Android for opening network streams very easily:

https://www.vlchelp.com/play-youtube...-online-video/

https://www.applegazette.com/iphone/...th-vlc-mobile/

That's not a proper use of Doe pleading, if they are talking about JFK. (Perhaps, again, this underlines that this complaint is basically better viewed as a press release.)

Here's the rule of the statute of limitations as to JFK, a NAMED Defendant:

In other words, any claim based on the same general set of facts (i.e., the cheating scandal) and which caused the same injuries relates back to the date of filing of the original complaint as to JFK. There's no need (and in fact it is improper) to name him as a Doe. He's pleaded.

And here's California Code of Civil Procedure Section 474, dealing with Doe pleading:

Doe pleading is about when you are ignorant of the name of someone who injured you, so you don't name him. But when you do name him, he's not a Doe, and you can relate back any claims arising out of the same facts against that named defendant to the date you filed the Complaint.

If it turns out John Doe 1 was JFK, they were using pleading-as-press release, trying to include a bunch of juicy allegations that they, perhaps, didn't have all the necessary evidence to support, in the pleading anyway.

Did not cheat when A was not there doesn't mean must cheat when A is there.

I think something like is covered in a basic LOGIC 101 class.

Nice demonstration. But for this to work Mike would have had to also be logged on to the same local network the server is on to access the local IP address. The „server“, if the network is setup correctly, should not have access to the internet (and therefore can’t stream to twitch i.e., and also, more importantly, the video feed could not be reached directly from the internet, i.e. Mike’s phone). Let’s hope the network has been monitored, there might be some evidence found there as he, again, would have had to be logged in to their internal wifi.

Just wanted to say this is brilliant, glad you signed up to post it. "Douche canoes" amazing.

After watching the video posted today from Matt Berkey on how the graphics software works, it occurred to me a way the Mike Postle could have done this all alone. We know that Mike has a good relationship with the Stones management. We know that Mike has some knowledge of how the system works simply based on being there. It is likely that at some point Mike was in the back production room with some of the Stones people and was able to see what software is being used to make things work. It would be a simple process for him to go look up that software and get a basic understanding of it. If you watch Berkeys video its very straight forward. Given this knowledge and his relationships, he could know that management is watching the stream live.

Now, here is what I suspect happened. He was just casually in the back room one day armed with enough information to know he just needed to see that IP address and he would be good to go. He could just simply ask, “So how does all this stuff work.” Because everyone knows Mike, some production guy just shows Mike the basics all the while Mike knows this information already and during this little demo, the guy clicks on the stream tab and BINGO Mike sees the IP address of the server. Think about how simple this would be to pull off and no one would ever realize or suspect anything nefarious about it.

All Mike needs to do now is log on the the Stones wifi and it will be the same network as the stream most likely and enter the URL of the server stream in a media player on his phone and now he has full access to the hole cards in real time and no one has a clue.
This would also explain how no one from Stones was involved as he could have found someone else to watch the stream live for him and feed him information after the phones were removed from the stream.

Just my thoughts

You really don't have to teach me logic 101, but it is this lawyer's assertion that there is a relation between suboptimal (as in non-cheating) play by Mike Apostle and the absence of John Doe. Thus it is relevant.

I'm just curious because there are a lot of things I don't know specifics of.

1: Does the public know the date of the original investigation by Stones? Any chance it was in November of 2018? Anything happen at all in regards to November of 2018?

The original post is post #4642 in this thread. So much footage out there so much more to see... Also know this stream is from July 30th 2018. He was still learning as this was only his 2nd or 3rd time cheating.

Check out berkeys Twtter

https://mobile.twitter.com/berkey11

IANAL. Regarding the John Doe section, can an actual lawyer explain what the sentence "The plaintiffs have... directed a litigation hold letter to such person" means?
(My emphasis)

It means that whoever John Doe 1 is, he or she was sent a letter from Plaintiffs' counsel indicating that they are representing Plaintiffs with respect to this dispute, that they believe in good faith that they have claims against the addressee, and that demand is made that John Doe 1 preserve all of their physical and electronic evidence, records, and files that relate in any way to the dispute. It usually includes a threat that failure to do so can result in court sanctions.

Agreed except about the part of the gfx machine not having upstream access to the internet - it likely does to support sending the stream out to Twitch, unless they're using a separate media box to serve that role.

That said, the IP address generated by gfx for the stream would be a local IP address, accessible only on the local Stones network. The only way around that would be define a port forwarding rule on Stones's router to forward traffic between that gfx server and specific port and the public IP address of Stones's internet connection.

The lawsuit document seems to say Justin (JFK) starting his streaming role at Stones in 2018, but he appears to have been running the show at the first "vlogger's game" in July 2017. This looks like him in Neeme's vlog...

https://youtu.be/umjah0VGdmA?t=382

The new Berkey video. Great job Berkey team.

So damn easy it's literally criminal. I have a new respect for Matt for the work he has done. Very impressive!

Hey Lawdude I really appreciate you breaking all this down 4 guys like me who dont got enuff book learnin to understand whats up

thank you

If we're getting really nitty, the server the software is on is getting its IP address from a DHCP server on that segment (or helper address). Or has a configured static IP.

Which would almost certainly be a non-routable on the internet, private address, agreed.

What kills me is, as others have posted, this stuff is being broadcast on WiFi in the casino? Omg. Even encrypted, oy.

Wouldn't take much effort or expense to pull some network cables around. Wow.

He mentions the chip moving in here. The mixed game starts with PLO8 which Postle later complains about. The first hand, he sets his chips up in the position he naturally does and then very quickly realizes he needs to move them. I believe it's the second hand where he moves them to the left so they're out of the way of the deep card peel.

Postle, Kuraitis And Stones Subect Of Multimillion Dollar Lawsuit

https://www.pocketfives.com/articles...awsuit-626929/