14 year-long friendship between Mike Postle and Ultimate Bet Cheater Russ Hamilton revealed

Russ Hamilton knew each other for a long time

Nobody would have believed it if it had come two days earlier on April Fool’s Day. However, alleged cheat Mike Postle and Ultimate Bet superuser thief Russ Hamilton were friends back in the day.

Russ Hamilton poker 14 year-long friendship between Mike Postle and Ultimate Bet Cheater Russ Hamilton revealed

Good enough friends that Hamilton hand-picked Postle along with several known cheats to appear on the Ultimate Blackjack Tour.

For those who don’t know their poker history, that’s the equivalent of OJ Simpson picking a young Oscar Pistorius for his neighborhood basketball game.

Hamilton achieved fame and fortune for winning the 1994 WSOP Main Event but gained his notoriety for being one of the men behind the Ultimate Bet superuser scandal.

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A God-mode backdoor hack was used to rip $millions from unsuspecting players, their hole cards visible to the cheats in one of the biggest scandals ever to hit poker.

Although he has always publicly denied his involvement, a recording of Russ Hamilton with others involved was later released that laid that to rest once and for all…

At around the same time, UB’s sister site, Absolute Poker, was going through a similar God-mode cheating scandal, involving the infamous Potripper account that has been compared to Postle’s incredible win-rate.

Potripper poker 14 year-long friendship between Mike Postle and Ultimate Bet Cheater Russ Hamilton revealed

Mike Postle, as you will almost all know, stands accused of a similar scam, being sued for $10million for allegedly using technology and/or helpers to cheat in a live-streamed poker game at Stones Gambling House in Sacramento.

The Mike Postle Scandal

If you haven’t followed the Postlegatecase closely, you can catch up by reading the articles below, containing all the necessary background information:

And so, to this week’s revelation that the ‘dastardly duo’ of Russ Hamilton and Postlewere friends.

A series of tweets by ‘Captain Jack Andrews’ set the backdrop for Postle’s involvement in Hamilton’s televised blackjack tournaments…

The world is full of coincidences. But what to make of this news when Postle himself stated he was “one of the biggest winners on UB” back in the day?

That brag came during the only public interview Postle has given since being accused, a two-part session broadcast by Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow and covered by VIP Grinders here.

It didn’t take long for Twitter poker fans to catch on to the possibilities…

Captain Jack Andrews poker

Russ Hamilton hand-picking Mike Postle

Two of Postle’s fellow ‘Russ Hamilton-picked players’ for the Blackjack tourney do indeed have previous involvement in the UB poker scandal.

Russ Hamilton had multiple accounts that he would use or ‘hand out’ to friends and pros for various reasons. Saccavino and Novinsky were among them.

Saccavino was found to have many more than the two usernames listed in the tweet – 63vette, Bgroup, Gravitation, and UtakeIt2 also among his super-user accounts.

Well, is it a case of no smoke without fire? Or coincidence, rumor, and innuendo? We’ll let you decide for now. However, rest assured we’ll keep digging along with others to get to the truth of poker’s biggest scandals.

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