Was Justin (JFK) still doing real-time texting of the hole cards, while he was on a beach in the Bahamas? (There are at least two confirmed Godmode sessions from when JFK was out of the country).
I think it's much more likely that the holecard data was being beamed across the room, either via text, or directly from the RFID/ActionTracker/pokerGfx software in the 'peek room'. By Taylor Smith.
For the bulk of the sessions under investigation, there were only two people in the building (not the commentators, not the floor manager) that knew the holecards. Taylor Smith and Mike Postle were those two people.

. If you're just tuning in most prevailing theories have Taylor as the prime suspect like Arty said and Justin just guilty of gross incompetence.

Justin's 'investigation' turning up nothing looks bad either way but if he's actually innocent it might not be a bad idea for him to turn over all evidence he has and throw the guilty parties under the bus.

Reason everyone is so hard on Taylor is that a lot of circumstantial evidence points at him(always being in building, fixing something at table and GODMODE is back on, etc) and there are graphics changes that still have no good explanations. Mike couldn't have done that by himself and that 86o to 98ss hand is mindboggling. I've been waiting for one thoughtful logically consistent way to explain this and have yet to see one(outside of the graphics operator changing it - which is pretty implicative and Taylor has been confirmed to be the operator at that moment).

Cardplayer interview with Veronica, she slams on Justin pretty hard

Interesting that JFK pushed the IT director out of the Stones Live operation. I also have to laugh every time I hear that he defended Mike by saying he used the martingale strategy.

Kudos to Veronica for making the tough decision to go public with her suspicions.

ummm... they had like 100 total viewers or less of these streams...

Guys guys it’s all OK

He uses the MARTINGDALE strategy in poker.

It’s too high level for any of us to understand.

Justin is either extremely dumb or he thinks everyone else is extremely dumb.

According to Veronica on Tuchman's Under the Gun podcast, yes, and that's when he started using the bone-conduction headset hidden under the hat.

Although I haven't looked through the videos to see exactly when phones were banned and when he started using the headset to compare those two.

first time in a good few days managed to catch up...

This hand is problematic, in that it makes no sense. Didn't fully appreciate why when discussing all those posts back. Whilst it makes no sense though, not sure what it tells us about the cheating.

seems you are doing God's work (no pun intended). Can I ask though, have you considered the possibility that the insider may not have been any of the ones you have been logging, but another permanent technical member of the stream? To my the best of my knowledge the only footage of the Peep/Producers' room is on the phone vlog of one of the regular players there. Can't remember his name sorry, pretty sure he was interviewed by Joey? Who did that show. Think there were two people in there at the computers. Pretty sure one wasn't Lance, not sure if the other was Taylor.

Keep up the good work!

It tells us nothing about the cheating, but we do need to make some sense of the J4/JJ hand(which I think can be done) to confirm that the 86o > 98ss hand makes absolutely no sense and essentially implicates the graphics operator.

I wasn't necessarily referring to the viewers. How about the other players, the commentators, etc. Now the players don't know what he has all the time, but clearly they know something is up, when they are calling with J high and other plays. None of these guys feel cheated and decide to watch some streams? No one suspects a guy who comes off as being no genius, but is somehow a world class soul reader? Commentators joking about how he can see all the cards not making the leap that maybe he really can see all the cards? I guess in the end that's exactly what happened, I was just surprised it didn't happen sooner.

What's surprising to me is how obvious Mike's crotch cheating is now, but no one at the table seems to have noticed at the time. Veronica had her suspicions about cheating but didn't know how he cheated and never seemed to notice the crotch looking even though she was at the same table many times. I don't remember whether Polk or Ingram or other podcasts ever asked her if she ever noticed the crotch looking when she was at the same table with Mike.

I'm not sure I take it as you do with him laughing in people's faces, but I'm socially awkward and the idea of prosecuting somebody for being socially awkward is abhorrent to me.

IF he's guilty and low man on the totem pole, then yes, just like the heroin dealer who is an addict, selling as a straw man for the real distributor, he should be offered a deal IF no evidence exists that can break the ring, and get a deal (not avoid prosecution, the very idea of offering a deal is that you are being prosecuted). Especially because he has a daughter that he is raising. Impact on others should be considered, as should the role someone takes in organizing a criminal act.

The 86 to 89 is not mind boggling. Jamie Kersteader's K7 was turned to KJ then back to K7 on a recent PAD. Was your mind boggeled by that one? Do you know anything about RFID technology so that your mind was boggled by the 86 hand? Naw, your a pitchfork wielder who was told his mind was boggled so his mind was boggled like so much of the "evidence" in this thread.

They must have known he had his phone down there, and didn't think anything of it. He can be seen occasionally bringing it up into view and putting it back.

I recently finished Malcolm Gladwell's new book "Talking to Strangers", and it's pretty relevant to this case. In part of the book he describes cases of spies, the Madoff case, and sexual abusers (Sandusky, Nassar) who operated with impunity for years before being caught. In the latter case he had even abused students with a parent in the room. He attributes this to a theoretical bias humans have towards assuming honesty in others. It certainly seemed to be operating here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-default_theory

http://timothy-levine.squarespace.co...default-theory

His demeanor when he knows the cards and when he doesn't is totally different, along with his play. This coincides with his phone either being hidden or on the table as well. He's not all smiles and laughter from being socially awkward. You can see when someone puts him to what should be a tough decision. In one case he smiles and stalls before calling, in the other case he obviously agonizes over the decision, as most do in that spot.

I also question how he could be low man. It's not like there was a ton of money to be split. Something like 250K over the course of a year? If you're not getting a good chunk of that, with the risk he was taking, it's probably better to just get a job.

Also, I assume someone will subpeona his cell phone records, if that's possible. Might not get the contents of texts, but may show the metadata like who texted him and when. Probably getting texts from the same number every single hand if this is how it was done. Maybe they used burners, who knows. Even then maybe geolocation can still be used to show that two people in that casino texted during each and every hand when crotch looking was a thing.

It doesn't make sense for poker room manager to praise a player's play or say allegations of cheating are false. It would be normal to say something like we haven't found any evidence, but we will continue to investigate.

JFK's statements are incriminating and probably will be used by the plaintiff in the suit.

Combine this with the fact that accusations of cheating are something of a cliche in poker. We've all heard the losing player say that poker is RIGGED, I tell you RIGGED! So there's even more of a tendency to discount evidence of cheating. We're so used to false insinuations of cheating that we don't quickly notice actual evidence of it.

That's a lot of money. Split 4 ways it's still a lot of money.

Seems like a bit of a risk to me too frankly, but you don't know what's going on in the lives of people that lead them to commit crime. It's rarely just "I want a nicer car". And if you think about it, the people involved probably didn't realize how lucrative it would be. Or that it would blow up.

Given how MP acts, IF he's involved, I think he was recruited, and then took the cheating to a frequency where he was bound to be discovered (unless he's just that good and lucky!) because he's, well, he's who he is. We all heard him on Mouth's podcast. He sounds clueless to me. You really think he thought this up on his own?

Very ignorant post, rfif doesn't work that way, I know there's a lot here but if you search the that you'll get a full discussion about how it's impossible for RFID to give the wrong cards and how it would have had to have been edited by someone in the booth while action was live IE the booth person has no idea either

RFID either scans a card or it doesn't much like grocery shopping you don't ring up Cheerios and it mistakenly rings up apples

If the cards don't scan properly, they'll show the cards from the prior hand

But RFID error or not, the guy in the booth can't possibly know what he is supposed to have so he took a big leap of faith in changing postle's have to the nuts which was very bold given that couldn't have possibly known what he had and it begs the question what his motivation for taking that risk would be

This part is pretty telling:

SS: How much control did Justin Kuraitis have over the livestream?

VB: The whole livestream was a one-man show and it was Justin. Justin made every decision. He had sole control of Stones Live Poker. He had an IT director of Stones that he pushed out of the entire operation because the guy was asking questions, and wanted things done properly and wanted to oversee some of the IT portions of it.

Justin was there for almost every livestream. He would stand behind this podium and watch the entire show with his headphones on. And he had this like microphone on his blazer. I assumed he was talking to tech, and he may have been, but he would watch the entire show, and he would make comments during the show. If the cards were quote-unquote not being read properly, or they were wrong, Justin would quickly change them and make a comment like, ‘Oh, Postle’s good, but he’s not that good.” He was very involved in the show.

https://youtu.be/Pe0Aa5rogQA?t=182

I remembered seeing the Peekroom on Jamans streams also, i found it again with Taylor inside.

I mean come on man. At least read up/do some research before making a post like this. His entire stream sessions have all been gone through and analyzed.

ok thanks. I'm sure there is another shot with a couple of people sat at the computers. must be another video. thought it might be the 'Avoid Mike Postle' one, but can't immediately find it in there.

The irony.

I have read this entire thread and as far as I know no one has broken down every hand he has played to where it could be determined what percentage of draws he hit during this period. I'm saying that would be a lot of work for no real gain.