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Stones Gambling Hall in Sacramento, California says it will not livestream poker games pending an investigation into cheating allegations made against one of the game's players, Mike Postle.
Postle has been a regular on "Stones Live," a live poker game streamed on Twitch. His success in the game has raised eyebrows.
The original accusations were made by Veronica Brill, another poker player who has played with Postle on "Stones Live." Since then, others have come forward with similar complaints.
Brill has no specific accusation of what Postle is doing and even admits that she can't be sure he is cheating. So why does she think he is cheating? His results are too good, according to Brill.
She said (and several professional pokers players who talked to CNBC, agreed) no one could do as well as he has, for as long as he has, on these livestreamed games.
Postle has not yet responded to CNBC's request for comment. He has defended himself on Twitter as well as on a poker podcast, "The Mouthpiece with Mike Matusow," saying "it is absolutely impossible for me to be doing what they're claiming. It is 1000% impossible."
[...] In a statement Stones Gambling Hall said: "We temporarily halted all broadcasts from Stones. We have also, as a result, halted the use of RFID playing cards."
The RFID cards contain chips, that combined with readers in the poker table, transmit information about each player's hole cards, so that viewers can see the cards on the broadcast (which is on a 30-minute delay to protect game integrity).
At this point, there is no specific allegation, no "smoking gun" as Berkey said. But many pros are pointing to those RFID cards and the hole card information, saying it's just not possible for Postle to play the way he does and win the way he does.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Vokbain on Monday October 07 2019, @10:05AM (6 children)
This should have been easy to test. Simply swap out the cards for regular ones without telling anyone and see what happens. Go through the motions so it looks like a regular game.
If his system isn’t working suddenly, I’m sure a change in his behaviour would be easy enough to spot without even waiting to see the rest of the game.
(Score: 5, Informative) by shrewdsheep on Monday October 07 2019, @10:08AM (4 children)
Or even better, change the coding of cards and see him loose.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 07 2019, @11:31AM
This. Should have easy to order a pack with altered identification and compare each player's performance.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 07 2019, @11:48AM
I like it. If he continued to win, then you either chalk it up to luck, or you go looking for the insider who is supplying the player with info.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 07 2019, @03:17PM (1 child)
See him loose what?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday October 07 2019, @04:53PM
See him loose a slew of expletives, obviously.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by zocalo on Monday October 07 2019, @01:37PM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!