seems like the news outlets getting pretty over Mike's shtick of being the best...

"Of course, in order to sell the idea that he is, indeed, the greatest $2-$5 player in poker history, Postle was also happy to share some highlights from his poker past. At one point in the podcast, he claimed to be the winningest player ever on the now-defunct poker site UltimateBet."

https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-new...heads-up-match

Fair enough.

It's night and day the difference. The playing style, the demeanor, the posture.

twitch chat

Think the commentators are more naïve and gullible than anything. I mean if they were in on it they would have probably toned it down and not made jokes about him being a god ect.

A simple example, in god mode he would never bet this flop here in position vs a guy that has 7 high.

Out of the 5000 comments that I scanned not sure if it’s been said, but does he always sit in seat 2? That sets off alarm bells to me before anything else. Is this normal for a cash game, “oh player MP always gets seat 2”.

ITS LANCE!

Not always, but most of the time. There's a graph already posted in the thread a few times that show his seat selection and winning pct

You will also notice early on when he uses his phone, he does it with both hands and it's up by his face. He also never stares down into his crotch during hands.

That guy is always calling for the cards that would give Mike the nuts. See the QT vs KJss hand on QT9 board - That guy is talking about how river will be a Q/T. With someone calling for specific cards every ****ing hand, you will with a large enough samplesize find spots where they are right. See Negreanu predicting turn and river on youtube.

I mean, what's the cheater explanation here, how the **** would the booth guy know turn and river? Like, even if that man was in on the cheating, try to conjure up a way for him to know turn and river. There isn't one.

I'm convinced that none of the commentators are in on it (except Taylor Smith, tech-guy who comments once in a while). Their blind praise for Mike can easily be explained by human psychology: Their brains have been conditioned to always see Mike make the right move, so that's what the predict he'll do. Because everytime they've said "well he'll probably fold" but he doesn't their brain has been like "ERRRRR YOU WERE WRONG, why not just expect Mike to make the RIGHT move so you can be RIGHT?" - and thus they start predicting he makes the right move, because then they are right and their brain gives them a "I'm a good commentator and can predict what happens correctly"-feeling

I would not exclude this Justin Kelly commentator.
Too many questionable lines about MP's hands
Affiliated with ACR
Great timing to up and leave for Costa Rica

They should be investigated also, it seems very suspicious.
Of course innocent until proven guilty and it'll be very hard to get hard evidence with actual punishment to commentators

100%. Most of the commentators appear to be not great at poker, kinda dumb in general, often drunk and only half paying attention a lot of the time. They hype Mike up because he's the biggest winner, makes crazy moves, appears to be by far the best player in their game, and gets people in the chat excited.

Things like the commentary being 'suspicious' on the T6s hand because the guy says 'watch [this guy who runs insanely hot] hit [his only outs] here, you know it's coming'...everyone who plays and watches poker says stuff like this all the time? It's completely normal. But because this general situation is very not-normal, people are projecting meaning onto it that isn't there. What is even the theory here? That the commentator actually knows the deck order, knows Mike is about to win twice and he's just gleefully rubbing the viewers faces in it because....lulz?

Also a very obvious point but I'm pretty sure if you're running a enormously risky criminal conspiracy on camera every night for a year, you would want as few people knowing about it as possible - not be yukking it up with half a dozen different commentators, who you would then presumably have to pay off/share profits with, and any of whom could rat you out.

tl;dr - commentator stuff is dumb, leave them alone unless you're bringing evidence that isn't 'that isn't what I would say/that isn't how I would react'.

It is likely some people like the commentators did not know what was going on but received big tips etc.

I kinda agree with this to be very fair. I just think the commentators are pretty much blindly hyped up because Mike happens to be right all the time. And since they're clueless about poker they just go along with it.

guys, when you try to connect any random thought or statement as evidence of a conspiracy you do nothing but ridicule the argument

stop

ffs, those guys are probably paid less than the dealers, it's not exactly a high demand job and bar for entry to do it is willing to spend that many hours trying to tell a few hundred strangers online how interesting some very boring and unedited poker is

just leave the commentators out of it, this is like accusing McDonald's of stock manipulation with actual compelling evidence and then trying to argue your cashier today must have also been on it because she said "have a nice day" clearly indicating she too was in on it and profited from the scheme

re: commentators

If you listen to commentators commentate over Phil Ivey I bet they're sucking his dick too. Doesn't mean they're all cheating.

Also take into account that if commentators were fantastic poker players, they'd probably be playing poker to make some moolah. So they're not going to be able to look at things properly.

At first i was of the opnion of "nothing to see here".

Having now watched all of Joeys videos and listened to the Mike Matusow podcast he is 100% cheating. He must have someone in on it either relaying messages through some kind of device in his hat which is somehow connected using his phone, or he has somehow hacked the system and is getting hole card data relayed to him in real time..

I was really hoping it was all legit, but just cannot see how it can be.. Looks really bad on Mike and Stones. Hopefully they will get to the bottom of it and this absolute sham is stopped and players refunded..

I have gone through almost minute by minute on the July 18th 2018 stream which is The Impostle's first ever use of god mode.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1252155464

I figured this stream would have him being his least skilled at how to hide his actions.

Some cliffs notes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAw9HiSpG9w&t=7680
1. He's texting someone rather frequently just before entering god mode and at other times in the session. Finding out who could point to a collaborator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAw9HiSpG9w&t=12480
2. When JFK TD comes by the table, Postle seems more nervous and pulls his chair in and hides where is phone is. Might mean that JFK TD is not involved at least not at the start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAw9HiSpG9w&t=13977
3. When a card reading malfunctions, Postle texts someone and then a couple minutes later, Taylor Smith (I believe) comes by and fiddles with a tablet behind the table and changes out the dealer's headset. Postle doesn't seem as nervous about this event and after a few minutes after Taylor leaves, Postle resumes god mode.

Here we can see where the phone is exactly and how it is in between his legs. Also this is an early stream of Mike's God mode. He is in seat 1, not his preferred seat 2. He makes some mistakes and I think this stream may possibly give us more answers in the sense that we can see his phone ALOT in this one folks. Click below for where exactly he puts his phone. Whats on that phone when he goes to the food tray behind him???

https://youtu.be/HvE09nhHLJk?t=10207

02:50:10

July 27th 2018 Stream.

(can someone teach me how to link a picture or screenshot from these streams directly to the page here?)

This game has a home game vibe. Players have cutsie nick names. Fact is in the US and A every one loves a winner. How many people pulled hamstrings jumping on various sports franchises winning band wagons. Postle always seemed to win. Of course the commentators are rooting for him to win. It is a completely unprofessional environment - and these commentators do not need to be unbiased.

to quote mp I am 10,000% sure he's cheating - but I cant wrap my head around who is giving the assist

Also T-Bone is the MAN!!

This is a replay of the original stream on July 18th 2018. Strange that they did a replay of it. Might be worth comparing to the original. This is the ONLY time they have ever replayed a stream.

For screenshots, you generally need to post it somewhere online and then add the link to it using the picture icon in the text tools.

Hi all, first post, long time player.

Everyone doing a bang up job, and he's guilty, no doubt.

I can't defend his actions as him being mad at a football game or some other sporting event. You throw your hands in the air and make gestures like he's doing, except you don't pound your fist into your hands. I can't think of one situation where this would be just getting mad because your team or player made you mad.

You pound your fist into your hand when you have been subtly trying to get your point across to someone and they aren't getting the message.

It seems clear to me that he is EXTREMELY angry that someone on the inside isn't doing their job and it is causing him dire grief.

Just my .02.

Keep up the great work!