SHOCKING POKER CHEATING: Why Everyone Is Freaking Out About Mike Postle 

Just folding AK on a K84 flop to one bet is enough evidence for me

Stones investigated Stones and found nothing wrong? Seems legit.

It’s incredibly disturbing that there’s a cell phone at the table in the first place! All cell phones should be banned from any poker tables in competition. This accountability is due to lack of rules and enforcement which is total stupidity

You only look in your lap for 3 reasons. 1. You’re cheating on your exam 2. Your step mom came for thanksgiving dinner and she’s disappeared then reappeared under the table and is unbuttoning your jeans 3. You’re Mike P checking your phone to see what everyones whole cards are

I'm a teacher. He looks exactly like every student I've ever had trying to hide their phone on their lap.

We've been spying on his phone the entire time guys, he's just playing Candy Crush Saga.

The commentators were surely in on it. Folding top pair top kicker on a completely harmless flop is just insane. If Postle had been not complete doorknob, he would call here in order to keep the con going a little longer.

Hands above the table has been a rule in my group for a long time. Never had one person try to cheat us out

8:04 is when it starts....this guy takes forever setting it up!

That perfect win ratio reminds me of the scene from the movie Casino when De Niro's character talks about catching cheaters "If they weren't so greedy they'd be harder to spot, but they're all greedy."

The fact phones are allowed during live play at a tourney is what gets me. Most venues won’t even let you hold a device on regular table play. Let alone a tourney.

If opponents cards are being relayed to him, somehow, they need to put the livestream on a delay, a delay of at least one hand. In fact, just ban phones at the table. That'll solve possible cheating!!!

judge: anything else? 69: have you heard of Mike Pos..?

There’s too much money involved in poker. There should be no electronic devices allowed in any game.

"We have investigated ourselves and have determined there was no wrongdoing"

"Touch your left eye if we need to text him that he's being too obvious"

"it's so easy when you can see the cards" - Mike Postel.

mike postle on his phone during the poker games looks like kids in school trying to use their phone without the teacher knowing

I'm blown away at how the guys next to him, or anyone really didn't find it suspicious the way he was looking down and taking so can long!!

Yes Doug you are right even great players get shit out on!!! This is stone cold cheating!

Either this fella’s looking at his phone or he’s given new meaning to checking the nuts

If he is actually cheating or is watching porn on his phone - doesn't matter. If there is a no phones at the table policy - then he is cheating by having the phone.

You can not cheat in a tournament game unless you have inside help. His behavior is suspicious enough to where any one should have called for an investigation. Had I been at one of those tables I would have gotten up and made him show not only what he was holding but I also would have called him a cheat and done what should be done to cheaters.

His greed got him caught. If he hadn't won so much, so fast, and played in a way where it was obvious that he knew his opponents hands, it's unlikely that anyone would have found out.

He’s stream sniping!! - ninja

I love how he makes a soul read when he was staring at his lap the entire hand.

I have never seen someone cheat so many times and not get caught..

He's watching the live stream of the game he's playing in because everybody hand is on the screen

Less evidence of cheating in other games at a casino gets you tackled by security.

If someone is smart enough to cheat like that, why aren't they smart enough to lose a few hands to make it look better? How are phones even allowed in an event that is live?

Who doesn't throw away a 5/4????? what kind of commentator tries to make a 5/4 sound like a smart bet??????

“If there’s an angle, my brother will find it!”

Electronics should not be allowed at the table. Period.

Stone did not enforce the rule of “no phones”. Therefore Stone needs to pay back each player in all of the tournaments (after the rule started) their buy ins and expenses.

Here in Australia, you're not allowed to pull out your phone at the table. Pretty common sense rule.

I ran poker games in Moscow for 12 years, I NEVER allowed mobile phones on the table, i dont care how much the players scream and yell, its asking for trouble. This came about from personal experience on a BJ table, when phones were allowed, the phone was left flat on the table with the camera pointed at the dealers hands, the dealer was holding the cards rather high so thet the camera could read the dealt cards clearly , this was relayed to an accomplice sitting in a car outside then relayed to a hiden microphone in the players ear . The player was now winning $100,000 before someone (im not sure who it was ) at the table realised, I was on the poker table. This was Moscow, so lets say the player was escorted by " security" outside to the accomplice in the car , they were forced to repay the $100,000 and i believe a hefty fine was imposed of $50,000, Cheaper than the potential hospital bills . Anyway that started the ban on mobile phones on the gaming tables , there were only mild complaints. To me its disrespectful to other players using a phone on the table and completely uneccessary

Would love to see Postle play on the friday game at the Bike, would be hilarious to watch him get destroyed, or have to switch his play style to a nit

Soul reads when you're looking at your lap the whole time.

hes also using someone on the outside to scan rfid tags from a distance. its not hard and looking for text updates

The hands you point out where he seems to know he's beat are interesting. 18:35The first hand where he folds top pair to the straight we need to know how much the bet on the turn was. If it was an overpot bet from a conservative player he could suspect that this player has the straight, or at least 2 pair or hit a set. It depends on how high the bet is relative to the pot and the behavior of the player making the bet throughout the night. 18:40 is interesting, but again, how much is the bet he folds to relative to the pot and how has this player been playing up to that point. If it is a fairly conservative player making a bet that's way over the pot you can put that player on having hit a pocket pair and fold AK. Even a pot sized bet from a conservative player who has bet top pair wins at half pot or less earlier, making a pot sized bet could indicate that he's hit a set. The call may not be as unusual as it seems. In fact, the guy with the set pushed all in. It looks like Apostle raised, was reraised and then the guy with the set pushed. This is actually a fairly easy fold. You can put the reraise or the all in on a flush draw. But you also have to put one of them on something better than top pair to justify that kind of action. This isn't a good example either. It's actually an easy fold. 19:00 The 5 K K Q flop depends on the behavior of the opponent as well. In the hand, they both check on the flop. Joe may be slow playing a set on the flop. Then Joe makes a small bet which means either he has the set and doesn't want Postle to fold, or he wants to make it seem that way because he wants Postle to fold so he can take the pot. Postle reraises two bets over which in that situation means either he has the K and wants to get value while he has Joe on the hook, or he wants to make it look that way to bluff the pot. Joe calls on the flush draw. On the river Joe checks. Joe could be checking because he has the king and wants Postle to bet into it. It may also mean he has the queen but doesn't know if Postle has the king. Of course it can also mean he tried to buy the pot on the turn with a small be to make it seem like he hit the set, and when he was raised he called on a flush draw. If he hit the queen he may not have called since he'd be drawing dead against the kings that postle could have. At the river you know he doesn't have the king because if he did he would have reraised Postle on the turn. Based on his behavior in the hand it is easy to put him on a missed flush draw without a pair. The preflop raise means there is a good chance he has an Ace. Ace Jack or Ace 10 of clubs at best where he may have called a potential set on a flush draw plus a possible straight draw. It isn't hard to put him on Ace high which means it makes sense to value bet the river because Joe is likely to call. Joe may think Postle tried to buy the pot on the turn and he also missed the board but without an Ace. There's nothing unusal about this play either.

He’s picking up all them live tells from his lap...

No casino type games that involve money should be live streamed. They should all be delayed at least 10 minutes to ensure there is no inappropriate tech involvement. Also no electronic devices should be allowed at a table including music players and headphones. There's always a chance that someone could be feeding information to the players thru the devices

I haven’t been allowed to have my phone out at a holdem table since before 2009.... So this being allowed, especially on a streamed event id off to begin with.

Doug, how are they seeing the player's hole cards? Are there cameras in front that read them or is it some sort of scanning system of the cards? If it's the old camera at table format, what can't the players just refuse to show the camera their cards? That then removes the possibility of someone feeding him the info digitally

This is the most obvious case of cheating I've ever seen... I hope he gets sued

If someone cheats, it's actually better.

With the RFID on the cards, this could be done very easily. A smart phone can be used to read RFID codes by using an app. Use the app to read the IDS and match them to the cards so you know which is which. Gaining this information you then use an RFID transmitter to change the cards displayed. This gives him the option to show different cards than what he has. I am by no means an electronic expert, but in the past year I have been working with Arduino micro controllers and have been working specifically with RFID based electronics for using a key card to access my house, so I do have some background in working with RFID.

As an outsider looking in, seems pretty dumb that ANY game of poker allows a cellphone or any similar electronic device at the table. Feels like Day 1 type of stuff right there.

If stones casino doesn’t make good on this we as a community should stop playing at the establishment

I don’t mind either a lie, cheat or steal in this particular situation

I still get pissed about this two years later. Just ridiculous cheating

Something I noticed from this. This misread the hand situation. They actually claim that both cards are misread. 8D 6S turns to 9S 8S so the likely hood of both cards being wrong is highly unlikely. I know I’m late here

“Yes they really are Matt Burkeys cards” 😂😂😂 Get him to the Bike 😵

I’m glad it wasn’t 5 hours to hear this story.

Doug your humor is postle-la-less… Miss the hell outta you man. You’re one of a kind and greatly missed on you tube

The 5-4 play might be a superhuman poker bot play, as they play randomly, which means they occasionally bet awful hands and raise to bluff like crazy, just by random chance.

18:53 Everyone: He could have Kx Postle: Well he can’t have Kx because he has A9s

At 9:47 I had enough of the superusing

Whats the name of the background song playing?

Wild after all these years I still find these little communities that totally live in their own little world. So interesting. So let’s see all the drama in this world now.

Would love to see a quick montage of all of Postle’s river decisions.

Let me make it EASY for everyone "IF HE WAS THIS GOOD WHERE ARE HIS WINNINGS IN WSOP AND BRACELETS, ALONG WITH WPT CHAMPIONSHIPS!?!? Nope only in Stone cash games...

Here is a quick fix.. A localized cell blocker at the table itself. Anything within 5 feet of the table gets zero signal. Blocks msgs and calls .. it is a paperweight at the table.. step away to use it.. You test the hands played . Do not tell its being used.. intermittently in series of hands turn it on or off. And watch the results...watch the players. Statistical data will not lie. I would say its very most likely he is not streaming to get the results. He has someone feeding him info.. could be msgs or being sent by an app directly device to device. He is being fed the info and it has to be someone there.

In chess tournaments these days, all cellphones and laptops are surrendered to the arbiter during plays. Same thing should be done in poker games to avoid cheating.

Absolutely baffling why streams would not be at a 5 min delay or something.

He's obviously watching Daniel Negreanu's MasterClass course on his phone Poker god

he doesnt even need to know what the cards are.. he justs needs a marginal player in the back with access to the live feed telling him to check, bet, or fold

I wonder if it’s a situation of “stream sniping” where someone’s watching the feed live and sending him everyone’s hands

Mike is as sneaky as a high schooler trying to hide their phone in class 😂

Thank you for exposing all questionable plays and players it's people like you that make beginners like me feel more comfortable playing

The host is almost as sarcastic as me. Keep up the good work.

anyone know the song playing in the background at 16:00?

"The graphics were wrong" does not necessarily mean "the RFID misread the cards." The cards can be correctly identified by the RFID but they show different cards on the screen. That said, dude is 100% cheating.

Forget live at the bike I’m sure he couldn’t beat my local casino players at 1/2 😂😂😂

I still work at stones and this scandal still haunts us. So many rumors and assumption but most of us all feel the same way.......

If there's no delay- he could b watching the stream live - or in contact with someone watching the stream live - in order 2 determine what the other players have

Doug clearly you are just making this up because you cannot see all the livereads Mike has on his opponents tells. Mike doesnt have to tell you them, but they're there.

GTO is really OPTIMAL if you know the other player's cards

Nice that the Video is without ads.

his stomach was literally against the table when you say he was supposedly looking down...there's no way to see your phone if that's the case...

Now that he’s “exposed”, let’s see if he continues his “winning streak”. That’ll give us the truth...

“Why everyone’s freaking out” Literally never heard about this. Come to think of it, why tf is this in my recommended!? I don’t gamble and don’t know how to play poker lol wth. With saying that, this video did a good job breaking it down. I stayed and watched the entire video. 😅

They should put this man at the table with Negreanu, Phil Helmuth etc. and let’s see how he does

I don't even know how to play poker yet I watched this. Funny wee involuntary movement from dude @ 9:51 Like a wee shiver or something lol

"it doesn't seem funny now"

im with Joey im getting pissed off watching this. i played in a HU tourney w/ Mike at Thunder Valley near Sacramento 2 years ago. it was a big day for me so i remember it well. i won the first lvl in about 10 hands and had a 2 hr wait for the next lvl. i railed Mike's match and noticed he knew the guy he was playing and that they made virtually no plays against each other and just folded for 2 hrs before Mike won. I remember our HU match because of one particular hand where Mike check raised the turn all in and i tank folded. the pot was pushed to Mike and i said " i wanted to call you so bad " to which Mike very quickly responded with a sigh of relief looking away saying " that would have been bad "... we started talking and he told me he's been playing 13+ years and used to play with Devilfish. to think someone who has taken the game so seriously for so long would do this is disturbing to say the least. i look back and think there's a fair chance he had some extra advantage and was very slyly using his table talk to distract me. Mike went on to win 2nd or 3rd in the tourney and i drove back to Reno so upset that I didnt jam the turn in that one hand. hearing Mike in commentary talking about his brother looking for any angle, coupled with the sigh of relief he had in our HU match absolutely makes me think these were freudian slips. thanks for bringing this to light Doug, Joey and whoever else. i think there's more to this story however i dont feel comfortable sharing it here as it is just an assumption at this point - LuckyPuppy

Bro that was every student in college and high school cheating off their phone during a test lmao

I naturally assume that anyone messing with their phone at the table is a phucking cheat.

Someone on the show is definitely in on this scam. Guys in the booth are way too jolly about this obviously weird behavior

Once you said "won all his sessions" I'm inclined to believe cheating. EDIT: after watching whole video I'm 98% sure he is cheating. Easiest way in the world to test the theory is have him play somewhere else. Will that happen? Hell nah

Every casino poker game, that I have ever sat at anyway, did not allowed the use of electronic devices at the table. Why on earth would Stones allow this?

Mike Postle vs Garrett Adelstein, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, David Viffer Peat, Scott Seiver and Tony G. That would be entertaining to watch MP become surprisingly human as his god-like poker skills vaporize before true poker genius.

Doug, this is AWESOME. Great skills, very nice video. This story rocks! Brilliant researches These guys are going down... thanks to you in part. Eye opener. This is GROSS!!!

It's obvious he's cheating but you left out some of the more alarming hands. Him losing the min on the river with the nut flush versus a straight flush and again with a weaker boat. Both times he lost the min. And then you have the famous 9-5 hand from twitch where insta jams post-flop into AQoff and 64ss, says he can't lose the hand, and then the 7 peels on the turn giving the guy a gutter and he verbally says "oh shit" when his opponent hasn't shown his hand yet. I hope this guy rots in jail for a long time.

I know for a fact at one major California Poker Casino, The staff pocketed the re buys, and didnt add all the re buys to the pool!!

With his left hand constantly off the table, he’s more suspicious than Chevy Chase in Spies Like Us. 🤣🤣

that rap god part so good

I find it amazing that he got away with it for one second. He never should have been allowed to use any electronics during a game.

Reminds me of the cheating major, who 'won' on Who wants to be a Millionaire, on UK tv. It was utterly ridiculous and everybody knew it. His cheat : a fellow contestant (far cleverer than the major), coughed to indicate the correct answer. No phones involved :)

If you notice, he is always physically sits on the curved part of the table or with one player on his direct left but with the player to the right of him, on the curve of the table. Because he then only has to worry about about the player to his left seeing what he’s looking at on his lap. And if he sits on at the “head of the table”, then no players have an angle/line of sight to his lap.