#3 is a huge reason why he cannot play the higher stakes. At some point his monkey shove will be called and then that charade is done

Nice Find.

MUST WATCH and tweet/share it out

New video i just found. Watch this one about another example of Rfids not working!!! Here we can see another example of mikes rfid not registering his hole cards. Watch as he tries to get his cards on the rfid again. It doesnt work so he has to actually peel instead of look in lap at phone. Clear evidence!

01:13:15 is about when it happens. Its very subtle but pay close attention to the left side of the screen. (Im on mobile so im sorry i dont have a timestamped link.) But check 01:13:15 for the hand.

Also you can see Mike called the inital 75 blind. Then he shows veronica the 6 3.

https://youtu.be/hqq-FCkt4Mk

Has there been any UB account linked to Postle to back up his "biggest winner on the site" claim?

Weren't you exiled from this thread due to all of your nonsensical posts a couple days ago under penalty of being banned from all of 2+2 if you returned?



ETA: Yep, found it:

When game is deep you can have a very high VPIP and win big.

Is there any real evidence here? No I guess? Just shitting nice poker room reputation without evidence?

This is a good example for when Mike changes his hat for the commentary booth, commenting on his own play.



You can see that he wears different hats here, either swapped for a similar but different one or he took the stuffing out for the commentary

Link to the session
https://youtu.be/ed90Z6vSVwk?t=15788

edit look at the difference

An observation I learned about God mode from watching Postle:

If you are in God mode, it actually can benefit you to play a lot of hands OUT of position. Here's why.

Two of Postle's big moves take advantage of acting first. He will either:

1. Donk a turn or a river with a huge bet to force a fold of a winning/chopping hand or a hand with equity.

-or-

2. Make a small blocking bet that his opponent is unlikely to raise, or that he can fold to if there is a raise, if he is either drawing dead but can't credibly check-fold or is drawing live but doesn't want his opponent to charge him the maximum.

When you are acting last, you can't do these things as effectively. In scenario 1, first, of course, your opponent can shove on you, and second, your opponent can bet enough that even if you raise, your opponent is priced in and has to call your raise.

In scenario 2, when it comes to you, your opponent will have already value bet his hand and set the price. Indeed, many of the most suspicious hands for Postle were scenario 2 hands where he "found hero folds" to big bets while way behind- if he had been out of position rather than in position, he would have made blocking bets and reduced his exposure.

This has interesting theoretical implications, but it makes sense. One of the big advantages of position is you act with information about what your opponents already have. But if you already know that information, it is sometimes advantageous to act first so you can have more control of the pot.

what are you even talking about? "You really need to think this **** through before you post this type of stuff." I think you should heed your own advice buddy. bc i am not saying what ever the hell your mis-wired brain thinks i am saying.

"When game is deep you can have a very high VPIP and win big".

Being able to win at 1/3 2/5 with a high VPIP is not the point, let me explain and use analogy real quick.

Could you theoretically beat SnGs/Tourneys without ever stealing blinds when your under 12bbs? Sure it's possible, but it is not optimal, what does this have to with Mike? Mike has the greatest win rate of all time over a 300hr sample at 1/3 and 2/5. The greatest low stakes live player of all time should at the very least understand how to play those games optimally, mike does not play 1/3 and 2/5 pre-flop optimally.

Imagine if you found the greatest low stakes SnG player of all-time, and they told you they did not steal blinds, would you not immediately be suspicious? I know I would, and when I see the greatest live low stakes player of all-time with a 63% VPIP at 1/3 2/5, I immediately go......... what the ****.

It's 100% not Justin. The absence of a sleeve tattoo proves it.

Mike has direct access to the graphic system that's used for the stream. We can make this conclusion with one video where the graphics are messed up and are displaying only the first two cards scanned as if it were a NLH hand, instead of all 4 cards for the PLO hand they are actually playing (video here).

Assuming the scanners at the table still scan all 4 cards placed over the reader and that the graphics are only wrong because they are just displaying whichever first two cards were scanned (due to the graphics settings for the stream), then we can safely conclude that Mike has someone on the inside (likely on within the crew that handles the streaming, graphics, etc.) sending him or otherwise allowing him direct access to these graphics in real time. I suspect it is in real time, as you can see Mike in the video frantically trying to have his cards scanned, something I haven't seem him do in any other hand.

If he had some sort of device on him that could hijack the table's scanners and display what cards they are seeing on his phone, he would have likely played this hand like his normal cheating self (like a god, confident, not panicking the whole hand). BUT since he didn't, we can assume he does not have any sort of way to hijack the tables scanners.

If anyone can confirm that the dealer at the table doesn't change how many cards it is supped to scan and the the table scanners don't have different game modes, then we now know FOR A FACT that Mike has someone on the inside. This would also explain why Postle's performance suffers whenever Justin Kuraitis is out of town. If he was able to hijack the scanners directly, he wouldn't need an inside man every time, just for the initial setup.

If you are high stakes player and you play live 2/5 optimal is, that your VPIP is huge since you outplay your opponents so hard postflop in deep NL.

Yes, it would not be fun which is why I would guess that he's not even following the thread. He probably buried his head in the sand hoping this will pass.

He could just shove wider for value.

So what you're saying is that he was playing bad over a 33 hour period. That's never happened to a pro ever (/sarcasm).

His point is that all this lawyer talk and arguing about wiping hard drives is totally tangential to the theme of this thread, and, they really should be split off; or just stop already....

It happened a few times in this game. Guys calling river shoves with A-high or JJ on a AAK board. They'd seen enough of the streams to know how he plays.

Damn why didn't I think of that! I have played with it before too. Great idea.

BTW something very interesting I found last night about the streams- not sure if anyone else has noticed this.

I downloaded a stream because I wanted to try and enhance and zoom in on some phone footage, and when I started looking at it, there was like an extra 15-20 minutes of footage - ie there was a countdown clock until the show started so it was preshow footage.

It was real late, I don't remember if they were using the readers or not, or anything about the footage in particular as that was my stopping point for the night.

This was youtube - so to clarify it appears they set the stuff on youtube to not let you see the preshow footage.

Anyone knows where is Mike Postle these days? I heard he might be on vacation in Singapore a while ago but not sure.

Very fascinating observation. I knew of course that position went out the window when superusing, but I just assumed superusing IP > superusing OOP. It appears youve made a very compelling case that when superusing, OOP is actually better.

ty for resurfacing post no. 3 in this thread for that substantially profound piece of information. the world is now a better place for what you have done here today

Keep us updated on this. You are going to need some massive file storage. How is OpenCV vs Tensorflow for performance? I was thinking about repurposing one of my mining rigs - say a 4 gpu one to try the same thing using Tensorflow for color match or just use its built in object detection.

That's how it is with poker. The casino only cares about the money that they have an interest in. If this was happening in their pit games it would have been snap looked into.

Oh ffs I am not going to argue with you, the vast majority of the time having a VPIP of 63% at 1/3 2/5 is not optimal. If you want to have some theoretically situation where your 1/2 table is filled with a bunch of super nitty players that fold 68% on the flop because they missed their pair on the flop ok sure. THIS LITERALLY NEVER HAPPENS AT THESE STAKES.

Mike also was playing with the average 1/3 2/5 player pool you expect to see at these stakes anyways.

I'm already mirroring all of the YouTube videos onto S3 - for processing i'll probably fire up some GPU spot instances and let it run, just refining the process at the moment to make sure it's working alright enough

not sure re: performance between OpenCV and tensorflow but ony my laptop on CPU it's running at around processing at 8 frames per second so on GPU it might get through the video quickly I hope