The biggest scandal in the history of live poker
The Mike Postle cheating scandal is quickly turning into the biggest live poker scandal ever as Stones Live stuff seems to be involved as well. Check out the most comprehensive update on the Mike Postle cheating including new evidence and everything we know so far below!
New evidence and facts in Mike Postle cheating case
We reported last week about the Mike Postle cheating allegations and since that a lot of new evidence and facts have been brought to light.
We have put together the most comprehensive update on the cheating scandal on the whole World Wide Web and present all new evidence and facts below.
The poker community got together on Twitter to fight for its right
The cheating accusations against Mike Postle were originally brought up by Veronica Brill aka “Angry Polak/Veronica 2.0“ on Twitter:
Veronica Brill is a regular at Stones Gambling Hall and on the Stones Live stream and has been playing a lot with Mike Postle as well as even commentating his plays, while being able to see his hole cards.
Mike Postle‘s strange plays and unrealistic win rate of $253,000 in 277 hours of play made her suspicious:
If someone is displaying a probability of cheating on a live stream you don’t make the entire room not be able to use their cellphones in an attempt to reduce everyone’s anxiety and then still promote the player as one of the best.
— Veronica 2.0 (@Angry_Polak) September 28, 2019
You take that player off the stream while you launch a proper, objective, investigation done by a third-party. Once it’s shown that the player has not been cheating you make your investigation public and let the player back onto the stream.
— Veronica 2.0 (@Angry_Polak) September 28, 2019
Furthermore, Mike Postle is good friends with the stuff of Stones Live and is also going to produce a new poker live stream show, so he is an expert on the technology behind the stream and know about its potential flaws.
Veronica Brill and Joe Ingram brought up the cheating accusations
Other big Twitter and YouTube accounts such as Joe Ingram, Doug Polk, Matt Berkey and Haralabos Voulgaris, were quick to pick up on the rumours and launched in-depth investigations of Mike Postle’s hands.
Besides Angry Polak special thanks and credits go to Joe Ingram, who put it more than 80 hours of forensic work analysing hands of Mike Postle played on the Stones Live stream, which has led to clear evidence against him:
Impromptu livestream – I will go over every single hand that @Mike_Postle played during a session on @StonesLivePoker to take a look at his entire play vs various hand histories that have been posted. I’ll speed it up to move from hand to hand.https://t.co/gvhOjXmazx
— Joey Ingram (@Joeingram1) October 1, 2019
Watch all of the shocking Joe Ingram investigation videos below:
Doug Polk also did several great videos on the matter here is one of them:
Watch the most suspicious hands played by Mike Postle and our analysis below:
We have collected and analysed the craziest and most suspicious hands and scenes from the Stones live streams, in which Mike Postle played below:
INSANE HAND – Mike opens 95o – calls 3bet – calls 4bet
INSTA OPEN JAMES $3k on the FLOP INTO 4bettor
Says I can’t lose this one when guy has 64 on J-9-3
Turn 7 – Says Oh, shit
River 7 – Says you scared me…..
Everyone looks on in disbelief as Mikes act begins… WTF! pic.twitter.com/lSZl7l8qM0
— Joey Ingram (@Joeingram1) October 2, 2019
This hand alone speaks for itself. Mike Postle open-raises with 9h-5d and there is a 3-bet, a 4-bet and an All-In behind him.
Mike not only calls the 4-bet and All-In out of position, but then insta-jams All-In on a Jh-9d-3h board stating: „I can’t lose“. Once a 7 appears on the turn, he says: „Oh shit“ followed by a „You scared me“ after the 7 River.
Analysis: There is no way in this world you would call a 3-bet, 4-bet and a call All-In out of position with 95 offsuit, if you don’t have help from outside such as access to the hole cards or board cards. After seeing this hand, it was clear for me that there is some form of cheating going on and there are several like this being played by Mike Postle. Could it be his playing style or a coincidence? – Well, maybe if you are a person that believes in Santa Claus?
Check this one out Joey.
Cold calls 63ss after open-3bet-4bet.
Not surprisingly 3-bet & 4-bet are AQo and AKss.
Proceeds to magically play every street perfectly.
Thoughts @Mike_Postle?https://t.co/4qnJyobTsV
— Kevin Martin (@KevinRobMartin) October 1, 2019
In the next hand, Mike Postle cold-calls a 4-bet on the button with 6h-3h! The flop brings 9s-8s-3d and although Postle flops bottom pair, he is still a massive 33% underdog against the As-Ks for nut flush draw and two overcards of his opponent, but he still insta-calls the All-In of his op