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Originally Posted by lawdude
Here's a guide for people who want to defend Mike Postle:
I get it. I understand contrarianism. My parents (especially my mother) are contrarians. It's a lot of fun to go up against the prevailing wisdom. And to be clear- once in awhile, the prevailing wisdom is wrong. Richard Jewell didn't bomb the Olympic Park. The McMartin Preschool administrators and teachers were innocent. So contrarianism is important.
But if you want to defend Postle, what you need to do is not simply scream "witch hunt" or talk about presumptions of evidence, but actually come up with explanations for his actions.
Most importantly, in the hands. Postle told Mike Matusow that he's one of the best players in the world. So what was he doing in the JTo hand, where he calls the flop against a set of 9's and then folds the turn when he makes top pair? What was the mathematical or strategic or live-tell basis for all those crazy river bluffs that worked, etc. You want to put the work into this? We'll listen. Heck, a lot of people are watching Postle in these videos. You want to be his defense team? You can put in the work too- watch the other players! Maybe you will pick up some tell that Postle might have noticed, in their actions or their sizing or something. It's not going to be impossible to do this if Postle is actually innocent.
And then you also have to explain Postle's actions. Why does he look at his crotch and play with his hat? Why does he seem to know whether other players' cards are registering in the RFID? Why does he play like a God in some sessions and then play like a completely different player/playing style in other sessions? Etc.
There's plenty of room here for an actual Postle defense attorney. But a lot of people here have put in a lot of work. You want to play devil's advocate? That's fine- I don't mind a good devil's advocate. But put the work in and come up with something plausible. Don't just shout "witch hunt".
Up until now Mike did not want to release this information thus killing his future action.
Mike has been a professional poker player and known crusher of online and live games pre black friday.
He won over $100,000.00 in one tourny. He defeated Tom Dwan on the virtual felt.
He knew he could beat this game with Drinking $5-$10 regs for a good win rate.
Then he added another dimension to his game, on watching an online video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-osZbxq4Mc
In this episode a little old lady who has never played poker before is taught the basic rules and then live reads and within a week is destroying top professionals with some amazing calls, crushes with total soul reading skills.
When Mike saw this he knew if he added this heightened state of awareness into his already outstanding game it would be unbeatable.
He worked on this and through learning techniques was able to trigger this high level of awareness, he could pick up the slightest movement in his opponents and read weakness or strength.
He would trigger this by putting his chin to his chest this was just the trigger movement that he had chosen, he thought it was better than something obvious like finger to the forehead.
He realized that when other players were on stream that they were much more likely to being susceptible to giving away tells as being on stream added a consciously or subconsciously level of nervousness to his opponents.
So the mix of drinking, being on stream, recreational players, Mikes higher skill level, working on his reads at home on the previous streams. The gulf in class was immense this explains a high win rate. He was trying to play all of this down as not to kill his action.
Whilst this might look like cheating it was just a combination of things amazing to most that is why the programme above but really these techniques combined together with a loose low stakes game can achieve great even unbelievable results.
These points will explain all of the prosecutions allegations anything else is purely circumstantial.
Obviously this has let the cat out of the bag and Mike wont be able to use these techniques in the future.
I think this will address most peoples concerns and at the very least raise a doubt in the minds of the non poker playing jury members.
Aspiring prosecution attorneys can have some fun debunking this defence.