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Originally Posted by Loctus
So it, to me, doesn't seem like wrongly registered cards are wrongly registered all the time, actually..
Agreed. Since everyone's been focusing at Postle hands, they see RFID errors that affect Mike quite often, but I was searching for smoking guns on other streams last night, and the wrong cards are 'randomly' shown for other people too. (In one spot, the black guy Paul had a trash hand, but the screen said he had aces, and the commentators said something like "Oh, we've been told the graphics are wrong again".)
The RFID software apparently gets "confused" sometimes, which is why the broadcast producer, which seem more often to be
Taylor, not Justin, informs the commentators prior to the delayed broadcast. The 89ss hand is just extra weird, because Taylor (I presume) manually overlaid the "correct" card graphics on the river. Usually they didn't bother changing them, but just warned the commentators with words to the effect of "The cards are wrong when the board comes XXXXX".
FWIW, I got a really bad feeling last night when watching bits of the hand history interview between Justin and Mike, shortly after I read his tweet (now hidden) where he said Mike was his favourite player because of his sick plays (and he added a clip where Mike was clearly superusing). I find it really hard to believe that Justin would conduct that interview in such a relaxed manner if he knew what was really going on. He just acts like a fanboy that really believes Mike plays like a god.
Imo, either Justin is a narcissistic psychopath that gets a buzz out of brazenly displaying his own "crimes" in public (almost as if he wants to get caught), or he's just the ultimate fanboy of his friend, and literally never thought or believed that Mike was up to no good. (Hence the sham "investigation". He never questioned Mike, because he believed him implicitly).
It's somewhat plausible that Justin was naive enough to think that Mike really
was a poker God. (Amusingly, this reading has Justin as an
apostle of a false God.)
Like some of the commentators, caught up in their promotion of the stream, it's possible that Justin really believed in the myth.
If the latter is true, it's presumably Taylor that is the insider that is Mike's most likely accomplice. The whole thing is so confusing, that I don't know what to think any more. :/