Mike Postle Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings and the Stones Case

Mike Postle’s net worth has never been credibly estimated. The public record shows $608,917 in live tournament earnings across 130 cashes and 22 years, most recently a runner-up finish in Las Vegas in July 2026.

He is best known for the 2019 Stones Live broadcasts in Citrus Heights, California, where commentator Veronica Brill alleged that he had been cheating. Postle denied it at the time and has denied it since.

Postle has never been criminally charged and never convicted, and no gambling regulator has published any finding against him. The civil cases that followed were dismissed without any court ruling on whether cheating occurred.

The figure above is what he was paid, not what he kept. No published estimate of his net worth survives scrutiny, and this profile explains why rather than repeating one.

It covers his verified tournament record from 2004 to 2026, the six years with no recorded cashes, the court and bankruptcy filings, and his 2026 return to Las Vegas.

Mike Postle has a fully documented tournament record and no usable wealth estimate attached to it.

What is Mike Postle’s net worth?

There is no reliable estimate of Mike Postle’s net worth, and we are not going to publish one. No eligible source has ever produced a figure, and Postle has never disclosed anything about his finances.

What can be stated is narrower and more useful: a fully recorded tournament career, and a 2021 bankruptcy petition brought against him over roughly $54,700 in unpaid court judgments.

Why do Mike Postle net worth estimates vary?

Because almost none of them are researched. The ranking pages for this search term include affiliate content giving a $1 million to $5 million range with no stated basis, and at least one page asserting a date of birth that traces to no source at all.

Several of those pages also place Stones Gambling Hall in Mississippi. The venue is in Citrus Heights, California. Postle’s recorded residence is Southaven, Mississippi, and the two facts have been merged into one error that then gets copied.

There is a second problem specific to this name. Many results for the query concern Mike Post, the American television composer born Leland Michael Postil, whose wealth is unrelated to poker and considerably larger.

What can we verify about Mike Postle’s earnings?

The Hendon Mob records every one of those cashes, spread between January 2004 and July 2026, and places him 6,409th on the all-time money list.

Those are notional gross winnings under Hendon Mob’s own terms. They are not net of buy-ins, expenses or staking, and no public source separates the three.

Spread across 22 years that averages roughly $27,700 a year, but the average misleads. Six of those years carry no recorded cashes at all, and across the 17 years he did cash the figure is closer to $35,800.

What does the court record show?

An involuntary Chapter 7 petition was filed against Postle in July 2021 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California. He did not file it himself, and he contested it.

The petition concerned roughly $54,700 in unpaid judgments. It was settled in January 2022 on confidential terms and dismissed shortly afterwards, with no discharge and no liquidation.

Whether the underlying judgments were ever satisfied is not publicly known. A dismissed petition is not a cleared debt, and the settlement terms have never been published.

Postle’s record begins in Mississippi, not California. His first recorded live cash came on 22 January 2004, an eighth place at the Grand American Poker Classic in Robinsonville worth $4,140.

That year closed with two cashes for $12,863. The following January, almost to the day, he won the same festival’s Main Event for $18,450, the first of 19 career titles.

The Tunica circuit became his base. In 2006 he cashed five times for $68,198, finishing runner-up in a WSOP Circuit shootout in January and winning the Gold Strike Poker Classic in June for $45,909.

The peak of the early run arrived in January 2007. Postle entered the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event at the Gold Strike World Poker Open in Tunica and won it for $118,743, still the largest single result of his career two decades later.

That one result was almost his entire year. He cashed twice in 2007, and it remains the clearest illustration of a record built on a handful of large results rather than steady accumulation.

What followed was not a launchpad. 2008 produced two cashes for $2,458, and although 2009 recovered to five cashes for $37,394 on the back of a third place in the Spring Poker Classic Championship worth $33,429, 2010 produced nothing at all.

The geography of those years still defines the record. Tunica and Robinsonville account for 31 cashes and $342,125, roughly 56% of everything he has won in live tournaments.

The Sacramento-area venues came later, and none of them ever paid him anything close to this.

Postle’s tournament record runs from January 2004 to July 2026 across 130 recorded cashes. It is a 22-year career built almost entirely in small and mid-stakes fields.

The shape of it matters more than the total. Nineteen of those 130 finishes were wins, six years carry no cashes at all, and a single result in 2007 accounts for close to a fifth of everything he has earned.

How much has Mike Postle won in live tournaments?

$608,917 across 130 cashes, recorded by The Hendon Mob and checked on 11 August 2026. That places him 6,409th on the all-time money list, 3,039th among American players and 22nd in Mississippi.

His highest position on that list was 1,630th. Prize pools have grown faster than his results have, and the ranking has drifted down accordingly.

What is Mike Postle’s biggest tournament win?

$118,743, won on 16 January 2007 in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event at the Gold Strike World Poker Open in Tunica. It is a title rather than a runner-up finish, and nothing in the 19 years since has come close.

The fall from first to fifth is the point. His fifth-largest title paid $9,880, and that gap tells you where the remaining 14 sit.

His deepest runs without a win came in the same venues. Third in the 2012 Gold Strike World Poker Open Main Event paid $50,000, third in the 2009 Spring Poker Classic Championship paid $33,429, and second in the 2013 Summer Pot of Gold Main Event in Reno paid $22,152.

Does Mike Postle have a WSOP bracelet?

No. WSOP.com records zero bracelets and zero rings across both player profiles carrying his name, and the archive shows no bracelet event win at any point in the 22 years.

He has cashed 13 times on the WSOP Circuit for $39,306, the largest a runner-up finish in the 2006 Tunica shootout worth $16,440. None of those results is a ring.

The distinction matters, because his January 2014 win at Robinsonville is sometimes read as a Circuit title. The archive logs it as a $200 No Limit Hold’em event with no ring designation, and separately marks a 2018 H.O.R.S.E. event as a ring event.

Two venues carry most of the record. Tunica and Robinsonville in Mississippi produced 31 cashes and $342,125, roughly 56% of his career earnings.

Citrus Heights in California produced more cashes for far less money: 39 results for $92,779, about 15% of the total. Those entries include an August 2018 event run as a Moneymaker tour stop at his home room.

Volume and earnings ran in opposite directions. His three biggest years by money were 2007, 2017 and 2006, but 2007 produced only two cashes against 31 in 2017.

2017 is the one year that looks like a professional schedule. Thirty-one cashes brought $97,375, more than any year except 2007, and it included the $36,702 Stones Spring Classic Main Event title in March.

Nothing before or after it comes close for volume. The next busiest years are 2015 with 15 cashes and 2014 with 14, and both paid roughly a third of what 2017 did.

Six years carry no recorded cashes at all: 2010, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The record stops on 12 August 2019 and does not resume until January 2023, then stops again for three years.

There is no reliable stylistic read on Mike Postle from any source we are willing to use. What the record supports is a description of what he entered, how often, and where.

The spread is predominantly No Limit Hold’em and the buy-ins are overwhelmingly small. Most of his 130 cashes came in events under $500, with the 2012 Gold Strike Main Event standing as the exception rather than the pattern.

Behind the Hold’em sits a mixed-game record, and it is the most interesting thing on his sheet that has nothing to do with 2019. Six of his 19 titles came in mixed formats, three of them in H.O.R.S.E.

H.O.R.S.E. rotates five formats within a single event, so those three titles are the clearest evidence on the record that he played more than one game seriously.

The volume ran in bursts rather than as a steady grind. Thirty-one cashes in 2017 sit against two in each of 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2012, with six years producing nothing at all.

The geography splits along the same line. Mississippi produced the money and California produced the count, and the two barely overlap in time.

The only stylistic claim ever made about him in public is not one we can stand behind. Observers of the 2019 Stones broadcasts described him as playing in “god mode”, and no court or regulator has ever found that anything improper took place.

He is not the only player carrying an accusation that was never tested, as anyone following Martin Kabrhel and an unproven accusation will recognise.

Everything in this section is an allegation, a court record or a denial. None of it is a finding that Mike Postle cheated, because no court or regulator has ever made one.

What was Mike Postle accused of?

From July 2018 Postle won consistently in low buy-in cash games broadcast from Stones Gambling Hall in Citrus Heights, California. The table used RFID cards capable of transmitting each player’s hand to a control room.

Community session-tracking, reported in mainstream long-form coverage, estimated his profit above $250,000 and had him winning the large majority of the sessions reviewed. Those are community estimates, not audited accounts.

Veronica Brill, a commentator on the broadcasts, raised concerns privately in March 2019 and publicly that September. Stones has said an earlier internal check had cleared him.

Stones then suspended the broadcasts and commissioned an outside investigator, who stated that no evidence indicating cheating in the games in question was found. That is a venue’s own review, not a court finding, and it proves nothing in either direction.

Was Mike Postle ever charged with a crime?

No. He has never been criminally charged, never convicted, and no gambling regulator has published any finding against him. That is not the same as saying no investigation was ever opened, which the public record does not establish either way.

A class action brought by a group that grew to 88 plaintiffs was dismissed against him on 3 June 2020 by Judge William B. Shubb, with prejudice. The ground was California’s public policy against courts resolving gambling disputes, not a ruling on whether cheating occurred.

Did Mike Postle file for bankruptcy?

No, and the distinction matters. Brill and Todd Witteles filed an involuntary Chapter 7 petition against him on 21 July 2021 to collect anti-SLAPP fee judgments of roughly $27,000 each. Postle contested it.

It was settled in January 2022 and dismissed shortly afterwards. Whether the underlying judgments were ever satisfied has never been disclosed, and a confidential settlement is not the same thing as a debt cleared.

His defamation claim had named Brill, Witteles, Haralabos Voulgaris, Joey Ingram, ESPN and a poker media outlet, with Daniel Negreanu among the named defendants.

The Stones case changed how poker rooms think about broadcast security, and it is one of several disputes that did. Our guide to the biggest cheating scandals in poker sets it against the others.

Postle returned to live tournament poker in June 2026 after a three-year absence from the recorded results. He cashed five times in seven weeks, all in Las Vegas and all in low buy-in events.

The five results total $4,999, under 1% of his career earnings, across buy-ins ranging from $95 to $300. The best of them was a runner-up finish on 28 July 2026.

Does Mike Postle still play poker?

Yes. His most recent recorded cash is that 28 July 2026 runner-up finish in a $150+50 bounty event at the Venetian DeepStack Championship, worth $1,781.

No tour, room or venue has ever reported banning him, and nothing in the public record indicates he is prevented from entering events.

This page is updated whenever new results are recorded against his name. It sits alongside every player profile we have published.

This player profile separates verifiable facts from estimates and public claims. Results and court records were last checked on 11 August 2026.

How we handle ‘net worth’

We do not treat any net worth figure as fact. Third-party estimates are reported with their source and caveats. Where no credible methodology is disclosed, we say so.

For Postle we publish no figure at all. The ranges circulating online cite no basis, and several of the pages carrying them confuse him with the television composer Mike Post.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings come from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live results only, read from the results table rather than the profile header, which lags behind it. Bracelet and ring counts come from WSOP.com.

All figures are gross payouts before buy-ins, travel, taxes and staking splits. We update earnings after each major series.

How we cover controversies

We report what was alleged, what the player said in response, and where the matter stands. We do not take sides.

Postle has never been criminally charged, never convicted, and no gambling regulator has published a finding against him. A case dismissed on procedural grounds is not a ruling on the merits, and we do not present it as one.