This is a good post: questioning/challenging a datapoint/argument isn't the same thing is disagreeing with the conclusion.

We haven't even *measured* the actual sampled winrate from hands that we have on video tape yet.

Should the case ever reach a civil and/or criminal jury trial - which is possible but unlikely - I find it hard to imagine a scenario where no unsequestered juror has googled Mike Postle, Stones Gambling Hall, Poker, Cheating and reached pages like these and been informed.

Lol. Are you serious? Outside of the poker world, nobody gives a **** about poker. 99.9% of people I talk to about poker respond with some variant of 'isn't poker gambling?' Or 'o I play blackjack sometimes.'...smh...

You'd be surprised how many people don't peruse the internet at all. Lawyers in courtrooms have no problem finding people...

In case you missed it, there is a civil suit brought against them already. We are not talking about anything involving a prosecutor.

These illustrate how greedy he was. If he chose to fold even one of these it would help his case. I don't understand what is thought to have happened in the hand where his hole cards changed to 8s9s. Why would his accomplice (supposedly) change what was shown in the stream?

I didn't read his post, or anything after this post, but this made me lol.

Are you telling me that if you were chosen as a juror in a civil or criminal trial and were not sequestered that simply out of curiosity you would not try to find out more information about the case online during the trial? I find that difficult to believe.

they is no way a case involving a televised poker game and like $300,000 in damages max will have a sequestered jury. this is just a run of the mill case.

No, because it doesn't have to be unanimous and the jurors will sit there for 8 hours a day for 2-3 weeks , having experts tell them what to think.

Most online bots are caught from other players having incomplete information but it is still quite obvious.

Obviously, totally agree

Since judges will directly prohibit you from doing this, probably no.

Colloquially "perfect" could mean played really well. His plays, however, are horrendously bad. AK vs AK river shove is clear cut the absolute worst option you can make, it is only a good move to one hand, AK. It is only a perfect move if he has perfect information. And that is a distinction I think is important to make. To a layman, if you say he played perfectly, they will think that he just played all his hands well and won a bunch of money. That is far from the case.

I am going to be kind of cynical here. The civil suit doesn't really matter. It's probably going to be settled by Stones, and even if Postle is required to pay back his winnings and some punitive damages, that's not really going to be a lot of justice in this matter (especially if he is judgment proof). Most likely, it never goes to trial.

I am glad the victims are seeking some sort of redress, but that's not where justice will be done.

What matters is whether, and what, prosecutors are going to do. They are the only ones who can seriously punish Postle and his conspirator(s). And that's going to depend on whether they care about this and take this seriously. If they do, they have a strong case if they stay away from statistics. If they don't, there's going to be very little justice done here.

You do realize that jurors take an oath, and that any juror who takes such information into a jury room will at the very least be thrown off the jury and can be held in contempt of court and jailed.

Very True as Poker is not an exact Science & anyone who plays perfect winnable poker 77
Days out of 87 days & Winning at 1/3 2/5 5/5 at $300,000k. Now let’s prepare this for a Bot named Mike Postle on internet Poker. 1st Mike would be daft to play 1/2 or 2/4 on Internet online poker as the tracking leaving 1 or 2% for errors would be picked up more likely by Party Poker or Unibet very quickly. Party Poker is leading the way of catching Bots & the Site updates us all every month on how many got Caught & how much was stolen & they freeze their accounts & give it back to the player Victims ����.

Now I’m sure some sites that got shut down or just stole your money like Lock Poker.

If you worked on the security & programming System for a poker company then their is a way that a techie Programmer can feed in reel time all the cards on the Table! Then relay that info straight to a normal player who does a Mike Postle.
As a statistician from what I’ve seen & calculated with the videos out their is Pure Cheating where Postle & maybe JFK are colluding to con not money from very rich guys but the recreational players. These types of Rec players just think they are having a huge downswing & waiting for an upswing which all who played Postle Won’t be losing that much but Infact could be winning?

Why has Postle not got the Casino to do a 25/50 50/100 & 100/200?
Postle & JFK if they are guilty & imo they are or would be caught out a lot quicker. Pros & Rich Recs look out for all types of cheating & after their meet-ups drinks & back to the grind it wouldn’t take long for a high stakes player to pin point cheating & in a way we have all benefitted as we will all be scrutinising hats, looking at your ball sacks & frantically rubbing your cards together to say that the machine is not picking up the cards.

They tried to keep it 1/3 5/5 to go under the radar not to turn to cheating at 50/100 & 100/200 so they did not get caught until now.

There are juries found for sensational murders and celebrities crimes all the time. 99% of Sacramento has no idea who Mike Postle is.

Hi boredom:

See my book Gambling Theory and Other Topics for the formula for the maximum likelihood estimator of the standard deviation.

Best wishes,
Mason

I've been a juror on both a civil and a criminal trial, and in both cases, the judge gave instructions not to go home and search for any history on the case. And I didn't. Why would I? To satisfy my own curiosity, I'm not going to do my part to give the parties involved a fair trial? How weak of mind do you have to be to say, "It's killing me! I gotta read what happened!"

I do. Discovered incidents of it occurring are reported regularly.

1) I think it depends on whether Postle was getting the live stream from the server, a Trojan on jfks laptop or through an accomplice. I assume a digital footprint of some type would allow someone to figure out when an unauthorized source was getting the stream. I assume that information would provide a link to Mike's phone. Unless he was dumb enough to have the stream go to his main cell, I would expect he used a burner phone that he took some precautions of being traced back to him. So I would assume that without getting possession of the phone, it may be hard link of the phone to mike. If giving up the phone sinks Postle, I don't think he gives it up.

2) I would expect the internal investigation would be turned over to the gaming commission and or police before any search warrants are issued.

3) I expect the initial defense filing would be a request for a stay if there was an ongoing criminal proceeding.

Not to mention that "I only win when the stream is running, and lose when the stream is off" is just more data that proves that he is cheating.

Mike Postle would totally google the parties involved if he was a juror.

Would that be a crotch Google?