Another cards situation....

(Thanks to my anonymous friend -- news from "Pat the NES Punk", Pat Contri...  When my friend sends me material unsolicited, it usually means, "RUH ROH!!!")


So the gist of it is this is a $30,000,000 lawsuit which is almost-certainly coming on the heels of streaming a number of poker tournaments at this Stones Gambling Hall in Sacramento, CA.

The main player involved in this is a guy by the name of Mike Postle, and another accused cheater is Justin Kuraitis.

Postle is being streamed having cash games at Stones, with all the trappings you see on ESPN World Series of Poker broadcasts.  The amounts of money do not appear to be that large -- these appear to be "5-10" games, the large blind (and what has to be called to stay in the hand by everyone else) is $10, and the player before him antes half that into the pot him or herself, and only needs the other $5 to call should he or she choose.

(For THIRTY MILLION in damage, AT THIS LEVEL???  This must've been bad!)

Postle is winning, basically, every damn time.  (Which usually doesn't happen.)  His strategy has been investigated, and it's completely off.

So what's the angle that's allowing him to win every time, even against other regular players?

Postle is accused of sitting with his phone where he can see it when he is seated, but no one else knows, and he actually is able to get a feed of all the RFID chips embedded in the cards, so he knows all hole cards at all times!

Which one of the hosts of the vlog indicates probably means Postle is in cahoots with at least one member of the production team to get that information in real time!

According to Doug Polk, Postle made $325,000 using this method, and the vlog notes that is six times the expected return at this level, even for professional players!

The vlog asserts that pro players are asking why Postle isn't playing higher stakes.  That's easy, and it's the same reason you see low-level matches in various sports get point-shaved and thrown:  Fewer people are looking at that level, be it a Challenger-level tennis tournament or an "Added Game" on the college football boards, etc.

Polk has about a 30-minute video on this.