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

The

cheating

allegations against Mike Pasal are quickly becoming the biggest story in

poker

in 2019. In fact, this story is so big that I'm wearing sleeves. Something crazy happened in

poker

at this time. An accusation that the guys cheated there, but the accusations made against a man named Mike, my brother may do it. What's going on, man to shoot? Man, if you're just catching up, I'll give you a rundown. Mike Pasal is a regular on the Stones Poker broadcast. Basically, he plays in a lot of these and has a pretty solid track record. In fact, according to this Reddit post, Mike has never posted a losing session.

Some users have commented that there are around 25 consecutive winning sessions. Also some people told me that they found a losing session that he had once, so you know if Mike's record is 25 and one or thirty, you know, it's still an absolutely crazy stretch. Live I felt like I wasn't going to do this, but I spent the last hour between the last clip and this one reviewing every Stones Poker stream. the last few months and checking how Mike Pasal did now the numbers I'm about to give you don't include the buyback. I tried scanning, it's certainly possible I've missed some purchases there so we have to take that with a grain of salt though and a lot of them build up a stack early so it's pretty unlikely for me to buy here.

What those numbers look like, as you can see, he did pretty well earning over $60,000 in his last 11 sessions. and never record a loss, I mean, these results just don't seem possible. They spent over an hour preparing that prank. It's important to note that these numbers do not include Reeb's eyes. Now, in a lot of these situations, he stacked up early, so. I don't think it would be possible for me to buy them, but there certainly could be some that have gotten away, the numbers may be more like plus 40,000 and if someone could really spend 20 or 30 hours thoroughly.

It would be great to adjust this to make sure these numbers are a little more accurate, but I'm not going to do that, so take it with a grain of salt, in fact, a lot of people have been looking at their hands as well. Joe Ingram made a five hour video going through all of these guys hands, let's take a look at the results like Mighty God, is he a God? He knows this guy is a God when he treats himself like God. Mike Pasal is missed by many, many, many people. In the community of souls I pray p.m. about which I am always examined.

I'm ready, but anytime, anywhere, if you want to watch that video and have 5 hours to spare, I'll put a link in the description below, but a lot of these hands were very damning. in some downright crazy boats that are multi-directional and Mike always seems to manage to maneuver into the perfect situation and look, poker has a lot of rods, but the issue at play here is that Mike apparently has a connection with people. whoever operates the program and then also during the hands, often covers his face or has a hat and is looking at his phone.

It's a bit of a risky situation overall and it doesn't really look good now before we get our Pitchforks, it's important to remember that people are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I really don't want someone to tell me to leave. In fact, I have not received notice from my lawyers about the defamation lawsuit. I mean. I know the wheels of justice turn slowly, but I feel like Charlie has had plenty of time anyway, let's get back to it. I'm going to start with who Mike Pasal is, what his poker career is like and how he would start playing stones according to Mike's Hendon mob has been playing poker for some time, in fact his tournaments date back to August 2005 and so-so He played most of the time.

There's a small gap there in o.9 from 2011, but overall, This guy has been playing a lot of poker for a while, he seems to play mostly with smaller stake buy-ins; In fact, his highest score is just over $100,000 on Tunica and if you look at many of his recent tournaments, he is playing some pretty small bets on Stone's. Mike is also involved with stones at least to some extent. ; in fact, if we look at his LinkedIn he says he is the creator of the new patent-pending poker series, the dream seat that was going to be or maybe still is a new technological creation of tournament cash games that he essentially believe.

What's also a little strange about this is that he deleted his LinkedIn that says this yesterday, so he decided to delete this so this information is no longer public. It's not exactly the appearance of bet since the creation of the show, as well as some comments I've received from people a little closer to the subject, it's clear to me that Pasal actually has a connection with some of the people behind the scenes at the show which is an important element when we think about what's going on here, in fact there was a tweet from his alibis vulgaris showing that the possum's brother was in the cabin and was telling some childhood stories about Mike, let's take a look a look, so I want to go.

Back to the wheel of destiny and coloring the wheel, so there are always different things. There was usually between 50 cents and $1 to spin the wheels. My brother had the wheel perfectly aligned and my brother put some quarters behind the wheels. This is what he did. He said it goes fine, the wheel just doesn't roll very well so I had to put some weights on it to counteract it, it rose fine most of the time, when it rolls probably like 90% of the time we always stop one away from the bill of $5 It will be the worst prize ever, so my brother would win half of the winnings, whatever he distributed, so my brother Edwin Yelm usually wins between 30 and 40 dollars for my brother to make.

He'll make it a good con. Oh, that was a great story man, yeah, if there's an angle, if there's an angle for my Braille, do it, he'll do it, oh, it's less fun now, I honestly can't, I honestly can't believe this clip exists, it's frankly incredible anyway, let's move on. from Mike in the past, let's look at the hands in question now, many of these hands are very, very, very suspicious and the reason is that I really don't think they are possible. I have to make a caveat here, which is It is certainly possible, at least theoretically, that a person can make a series of extremely precise decisions without knowing their opponent's cards, but with each decision you see, it becomes less and less likely that it will be random and more likely that there is some type of other.

Something that lets them know what to do. These hands really started to come to light thanks to Veronica Brill, who mentioned this privately to a few different people and then finally posted a video on YouTube where she shows off a long series of very strange hands. by Mike I'll put a link to that video in the description below and you can also read about what Veronica has to say on the topic on Twitter at Angry Poleaxe. You know, she got some criticism for coming forward initially, especially a lot of people. who thought this was not possible, but it is very important for people to come forward with these types of problems that are happening in the community, if they believe that there is a problem, not even to say that someone is surely guilty, but it is better so that we all have these discussions so that we can ensure a fair gaming environment.

I want to go over just some of the best moments. There are so many hands here and you can go over them for hours like we did Joe, but let's refine. In some that I think are particularly damning, let's start by looking at a hand in which Mike Pasal decides that he will go all-in with five fours offsuit. Now you might be wondering how that can be good, well this is where the action begins. with Ace King raising 245 over some limps, there is no parlay pot when you play live poker, there can be a lot of different blinds so there is a bit of difference than normal and then Chris Moneymaker decides to triple bet with Ace King from another suit so that both players have ace king, which is a bad place for both of them, since they block each other's leads and now other hands have substantially more equity against them, hands like I'm going to make something up like it's 5 4, like this which, for example, all sudden might be a pretty reasonable hand if you knew they both had a sting, but if any of these players had a hand like a pocket-high pair like tens, jacks, queens, kings, or aces, but not Mike with his crazy style he is going to masterfully maneuver his way into this pot with his 5 because this is crazy this is crazy this doesn't exist now in PLO sometimes people have difficulties where they have a hand like nine eight seven six and know what both players are very likely to have aces because they keep transplanting, it may make sense and it may be somewhat clear that what is happening is not a thing in the nobles and keep them where both players could have a skink if someone has queens, you are toast here so you simply have to fold there is another important factor here there are some important cards that are dead now the player behind these two players Ace King has come Queen which is one less king from the deck that could be attacked so that the a

postle

win, but the first two players folded hands that had four or two of the first three players, so the net effect here is probably worse for Mike overall, but my question would be did he observe those first folds compared to the later ones, but let's discuss that a little later.

Either way, it's important to know that this player also has a king, so the King Queen folds and now Mike's actions, but one thing that seems very strange to me about what happens while this is happening is that we look at Mike while these other players make In the decisions we see that Moneymaker raised and now the actions pass to this player with king, queen and Mike staring at his lap, what is he looking at what's down there? I have also heard from several players that Mike often has his phone in his lap or that he has even said that he keeps his phone in his lap where is he looking?

Let's think about this big picture. A guy picked up Ace King. A guy made bets. Ace King. Another guy is failing. You're looking at your phone on your lap and finally. I decide to go with five, four, two suited players, both with a king. Yeah, I'm learning as I make the video here because I was wondering what he does when he leans over and looks intently at those tiles that I went back to. before the hand and you can clearly see that Mike is on his phone, he places it in his left hand and slides under the table.

Now there are a couple of different angles where we hold other players, so we don't know what happened with that hand. In the middle I don't want to be accused of clever editing tricks, the whole plot and painting me as some kind of villain starts with his editing, but given that his left hand is placed in a very similar situation, it's fair to say that there was a There Chances are good that the phone is still in your hand or on your lap now when you lean over to look at those chips, which by the way is a very unnatural thing to do at the table, how often do you do this to look at your chips I guess ? he is saying with this look he is looking at his chips no this is what you do to look on the floor look in your lap to look at something that fell that is what you do that for don't do that to check your chips he is looking at something under the table and we know that his phone is in his left hand and his left hand is still under the table.

He now watches what happens when this player points at him, he probably says it's your turn to act or something, he watches the way he reacts. the reaction is almost like he's been called, he suddenly stops shuffling his chips, leans back and then turns his wrist in his lap and shows his arms, so there's a sleight of hand under the table and now he's in upright position showing his body completely this is where this gets really interesting in 300 808 in this broadcast we freeze the image we can see something that is very slight but there is certainly something silver on his turned hand what color is his phone well it is also silver, so what the guy was on his phone during the hand, plus the fact that they recently instituted a new phone policy, so he's not supposed to be on his phone anyway, the point is that he's on your phone looking at something before a really crazy.

The decision is made, let's say you are a winning player with 5-4 offsuit. How do you commit your money? I can't think of a way either, I mean, maybe if you were drunk and tried to bet, but the guy spends like a minute and a half making this decision this is a calculated effort in a complex situation because two guys have ace king so we have some pretty suspicious things about the a

postle

here now what are the commentators saying? They're obviously saying things like how can this? This is obviously happening, this is strange with a player putting you in with five offsuit fours for a lot of money for a huge pot, maybe the biggest pot of the night. what ishappening, this is very bad, both players have confronted King, which is a bit strange, we need to respond but no, they decide to take a different route.

Pasal is thinking thoughts with the five four thinks he might be isolating pretty loose. Pasal hopes to channel his power of the possible thinking that says oh yeah, you guys have ace king, I have 5 4 I. I think it's very unlikely that computers are to blame in any way here because if people like tears of comp to find out what's going on with the possible cheats, it probably would have been leaked sooner, but I have to say, I love the old eye movement. here when you realize the direction this hand might go you think it might be isolation is pretty weak so i had to take the opportunity to attack some wolves with the tweet when you try to explain cancel 4k pre look 5 4 off soon let's move on to another hand, this is one that really caught my attention.

You know, one of the most ridiculous Hansen's, this hand is a bomb shot that you're not familiar with and basically the way it works is

everyone

puts up a certain amount of money and then they get a hand and a flop is dealt for

everyone

to players see the flop and anyone can have any hand, so it's a little different than normal No Limit Hold'em, where you put people in ranges of hands that they would want to play preflop, everyone has all the hands, you can't knock out people with good endings and you have to play bad ones, it's a way to be able to pay the rake and then someone also wins a big pot, then the rate comes out of the pot, the flop comes ten, five, three with two clubs, I really felt that we were falling into a hand in poker hands there, but anyway, if we look at the eight people in this hand, we could see a wide variety of hands for people with flush draws, max flush around the second max flush draw and then everyone else has something quite weak, in fact, the hand that is actually, at the moment the showdown value is only the bottom pair even though there are eight players.

The thing about explosive tops is that although most players have very weak holdings, anything is possible, anyone can have to match you, of course, you can have ten, five, ten, three, obviously. or five, three, two officers, all those hands will be dealt to you for free, you can have top pairs, we will have good top pairs, you can have any of the draws, so it's a situation where just because there are so many people in the pot, I have to proceed with caution, so the camera zooms in on Mike once again and we see Mike in his signature pose with his right hand on the table, his left hand wedged between his legs, where it remains during the hand facing a bet between two flush draws. which Mike decides to call with conscious justice and the nuts now isolated, okay, they have some reasonable socks behind if he beats us to the nuts, so nothing too suspicious here decided to call the bet with the top straight draw.

It's interesting to know that he does everything with his right hand here while keeping his left hand firmly wedged between his legs, let's go ahead and turn, a cat comes and Mike goes first here now he thinks about it and decides to check and now he likes an uncomfortable like straight shirt to maneuver while looking between his legs, which is where his left hand was in the same position when he was holding his phone earlier, so once again, in a great spot where Mike does something pretty wild, he checks something on his lap earlier. making his decision anyway, another bet here on the turn, once again Mike has the option to call with his channel, this one isn't that good overall, although he still has pretty good odds now, he's less likely to hit This hand. and also he has less money behind to win, but at the same time calling is quite close.

Now the really interesting thing about this hand is what Mike decides to do on the river: the board matches both players and Mike decides to block, he blocks a situation. where neither player could have a top pair, either player could have two pair or a set, either player could have Rivard make some kind of trip, although in reality it is unlikely that anyone would have a three and it is also why this is so strange, what is

mike

? saying that he has a lot of Jams here, maybe like a week to listen to River on a boat, there really aren't many hands.

He even says that he had what this Jam looks like to me. I think my opponents are weak and the only information he has to go on. that call is that one of them only called, so there's another amazing play from Mike when two players botched and the thing is, maybe in one of these hands a setup would be nice, but there are so many of them, now Stones had to deal with a lot of Accusations that

cheating

was going on because cheating was probably going on, so they instituted a no phones rule that apparently wasn't very serious because people were still talking on the phone.

It's going to get a little repetitive going over all of this. hands with crazy plays, but here's a small sample, yes, another fold for a turn bet with top pair versus top straight, folding with ace, king versus eights only on the flop. King 8 3, there are all kinds of plays that have happened consistently, there is a hand. with the third pair becoming the one who raises for value and bets there for value against an ace high, there are a third as many of these hands that are honestly a little ridiculous, so when you look, you look for something specific and I can see it and I'm not going to say it and guys, see if you can spot it, but don't get in if you see it, keep it to yourself, but the most interesting part of all this is that you can't find hands where you made a bad play on the river.

At least I haven't, you can find hands where he tried to bluff and failed mostly in places where people made crazy calls, but I don't think I've seen a single hand in this entire sample where he made a really bad play. In the river game there was a hand where he got the pot over the pot and I think he just called when he probably should have been raising the boat and raising and that's basically nothing marginal. Another aspect of this is that sometimes in big situations the RFID picks up the wrong cards and those situations tend to be favorable for Mike now, basically making his place seem more reasonable now instead of breaking one.

I want to show you some parts of Joey breaking this down for you. I like common mistakes, they get excited, I like these guys, man, they're funny because high makes it 2 point 4 K, yeah, the graphics always seem to be wrong, just when Mike makes a crazy play, huh, yeah, now Mike has it, oh how convenient. It's uh Oh, third door, how convenient it is, okay, this is, this is man, there's no way I'm listening, they've been saying, they've said this three times four hands, the graphics turn out to be I don't believe it, man, what you're saying.

It seems to me that this guy gets the graphics out of him, Ron is consistent in places where he just happened to have a situation, that's it, man. I'm getting a little pissed off watching this, this man, are you serious? Yeah, the graphics are bad, get out of here man. this is yeah that's what they're trying to say man that's that again so now I heard they were wrong three times and this guy had a this is this is now they changed 89 yeah right yeah right uh huh. I hope it shows eight nine, yeah right, oh my god, what's going on, dude?

Here's the thing, not only are the graphics wrong now, are they seriously, seriously, it's already happened the third time with the eights, the ten in verse, they were also wrong and with the six nine verses they are wrong - OH, the graphics are wrong, so this crazy Bluff is actually crazy, but they won't catch him Oh, the graphics are wrong, oh, that makes sense, yeah, yeah, except that's not how RFID works like RFID works. each card has an individual ID, for example an ace, maybe r69 32b, and every time the reader sees our 693 TV, it knows it's the ace of hearts, so if one card is wrong, it would be wrong for the entire the session, it would not happen randomly.

You made a mistake once, maybe you didn't pick up a card because you weren't placing the correct sensor, maybe another card was placed over the ID, but essentially the point is that if two cards are dealt in the RFID area and one of them is wrong , it's going to be bad for the entire session, this is something other people weighed in on, for example, Berkey tweeted that seeing some of this is disturbing. I owned RFID Tech and let me tell you, the graphics almost never hurt a hand that you would have to miss. recorded a card, which means it would be consistently wrong, so the next time you see Matt Berkey making one of his signature plays, know that yes, those really are his cards.

I also want to point out a separate issue, which I think is the commentators and analysts. It really says a lot that in each of these broadcasts they basically talked about how possible he's going to win, he's going to backdoor the knots, he's going to make the right move, he's going to have the right read, he's going to win this session in that session. , listen and it basically creates this atmosphere of oh yeah, Mike just wins every time, that's what Mike is, it creates this kind of aura of when he's just winning too many times, too often, oh that's just Mike, you know that I should move, Mike, but look.

The way poker works is not like other games where if you are really amazing you may never lose at poker even if you are not an expert. Amazing players often make mistakes and only win maybe 52 to 55 percent of their sessions. In certain types of games there are particularly big favorites plus like 55 to 60 percent of their sessions they don't win as long as they don't anyway here's the problem. I can't say with 100% certainty that he is guilty because I wasn't there and I have no proof, however I can say that there were a number of factors here that are quite damning and make it almost certain in my mind that the man is cheating. .

These are the reasons why the number of winning sessions in a row is absolutely. Out of control professional players do not win, they often win a much smaller number, the streak you are on will be something like 0.1% probability, Even if it was a very good number two, some of these hands are complete and utter. Reid Sol's ABS solo reads I've never seen before in my life and I've played a lot of poker, in fact the only soul readings I can remember that are similar to this were when someone hacked my computer and beat me by a bunch of buy-ins and I ended up getting refined by PokerStars, which is actually the closest hand I can remember and they were cheating me during that, it's not normal to be able to just raise and value a third caller in huge pots, that's not normal.

In fact, good players control the pot in those situations quite often to avoid losing too much money. I can also say that on the river Mike placed extremely well, in fact he proposed this proof that he made a bad bet on the river. It's a $40 bet. There is also the The problem with RFID is just made up, there is no way what they say is correct unless there is some difference in their technology compared to other RFIDs, which seems impossible to me. I mean, we add all these things together, we add the connections to the stones themselves.

I know this is a lot of evidence that he cheated, so now we're at a point where I think it's very, very important, what we do from here, Stones, needs to issue a full and thorough investigation into the matter. right now, that's why you You'll rest easy knowing that three days ago Stone tweeted earlier this year that an allegation was made that a player was cheating in our game. We conducted a full investigation and found no evidence that any cheating had occurred. Stones Life, she remains a safe poker shooting platform. The recent accusations are completely made up.

Wow, okay, I was worried, but you know this came out a few days ago, so you know it's probably a very thorough investigation. I mean, even Kevin Martin, one of the nicest guys in poker, jumps in here and says. I really like you guys, but you might want to redo that research. The tapes look bad. One arm constantly in a jacket holding the phone. He raised a really bad selection of hands. He placed a terrible fundamental of four, but magically calls and bluffs in perfect spots after the flop. And this is where we're at the point where we have to come to some conclusions here, so I have some ideas that we can do as a community to solve the problem first.

I think Stones should post the pictures of just the microphone specifically so you know how it works. It goes from player to player in the context of a hand, well, just the footage of Mike and how he operates in all the hands so we can see where his eyes are and what he's doing. I think that would be very helpful. I love having an interview with Mike where we discuss a lot of this stuff. I think there are many things to address and I would like to do so if that is not anoption and finally I think this is a fun option.

How are you? We have Mike play in a different current where there are no rocks, maybe we can get Mike down on the bike and see if these same moves go just as well. I have a feeling they won't turn out as well, but they certainly would. It'll be easy to watch and, frankly, if the guy manages to go undefeated at Live of the Bike, I mean, maybe this guy is the best poker player who ever lived. Mike Pasal is a god or he's not you.