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Originally Posted by SimpleRick
Was Russ Hamilton ever caught cheating on video? Or was there only an IP address linking him to the crime? It's not the same, anyone thinking Mike Postle can make a comeback in poker and comparing it to Chris Ferguson playing or Russ Hamilton playing are just plain wrong. The Ultimate Bet cheating scandal didn't center around Russ Hamilton as the Mike Postle cheating scandal does. That's why you called it the Ultimate Bet cheating scandal and not the Russ Hamilton scandal and why no one is calling it the Stones Live cheating scandal but rather the Mike Postle cheating scandal. Totally different cases, different times. Mike Postle's live poker career is over and he's probably too inept to beat online. GG Mike, you played yourself out.
You couldn't be more wrong in about your last 5 posts to this thread.
I'm not sure how new to poker you are but he isn't getting 86'd from any casinos if he choses to play there. If you aren't going to play anywhere that would let him play, you are going to be left with nowhere to play. Or course it's hard to prove since he is never going to show up at every single room so we can find out.
Poker rooms have plenty of scumbags of all types playing, the casino doesn't care. If somebody gets banned from casino A. They show up at casino B. If they get banned from both they show up at casino C. Casino knows damned well what happened at the other casinos because plenty of players let them know. Unless you are stealing from the house the casinos just don't seem to care quite as much.
You act like this story is the biggest contraversy in poker history. It's no doubt a big deal, but so was the Ultimate Bet thing, the Full Tilt thing, the guy begging at the airport thing. In a few months until eternity this will be just be known as the Stones live stream thing. He was only cheating on the live stream to the tune of a couple hundred K that only effected those in that game.
It will be interesting to see if Postel begins playing at casinos again. I'd imagine he will just do something else for a living instead. He probably has 100k stashed away from this cheating to give him a head start on a new career. He was probably a winning player who was trending down after many years anyhow, might not have even been winning straight up anymore. Probably was looking to get into something new anyway. I doubt he has the full $250k. Probably only got half because he had to split it with whoever he was working with. Probably blew some of it as well.
He did seem to like attention. So maybe he tries to make some money off this whole thing. Who knows..
I doubt he tries to resume his previous life as a "grinder" but don't think for a second it's because the casinos won't let him play there!