Berkey has always annoyed me as a player coming off a bit of a douchebag with a superiority complex akin but not as bad as a certain player who’s name sounds like A lick Tor el lee. (He doesn’t deserve any google mojo). But Berkey has always seemed to be at least an honorable guy and straight player at the table the type who would call out shit if he saw it and would be the kind of a guy if he was a cop would write a ticket to his own grandma if she was speeding 😂.
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That was my impression, too.
I never had any real interactions with the guy, but he seemed arrogant from what I had seen of him on livestreams and social media.
However, as you said, he's never had a reputation for being dishonest, and he put in a lot of time on this situation in trying to figure out exactly what Postle was doing. Made me think better of him.
lol
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"Donk down, that’s what you say to someone after they have lost 28K straight?" - Phil Hellmuth, online
Don't get me wrong as I think Mike is guilty as fuck. But the blue screen on the phone....if you look at the top of the phone it looks like a white search bar and the blue "could" be his wallpaper and only have a few icons at the bottom of the phone that we can not see. And the image is very poor quality.
(5 mins later)
I just now found the slow motion video of this and the top white bar appears to be a light reflection. Check it out here
https://streamable.com/0a3bw
Haven't listened yet, but Joey Ingram on the Ryen Russillo podcast on the ringer today.
https://www.theringer.com/2019/10/9/...ssillo-podcast
Gordman found an interesting thread in /rpoker in which the commenter identified the exact time and session in which Postle started cheating and copied it into the related thread on Flying Stupidity. It’s great stuff but I don’t see a copy posted here, so, I’ve copied it here in case folks aren’t looking at that thread. Great stuff.
https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/sh...l=1#post864550
COPY of a post I made on the other thread using stills from the time lapse vid that show Postle starting to use his phone in his lap.
This time lapse one is great material, but the juice is at the end. At about 33 minutes and change, Postle plays his last hand before moving his phone to his lap. He loses that hand to a triple barrel river bluff, and even reacts in a home game fashion of displaying humorous upsetness at being so brazenly bluffed, after which his mood changes when he sets up his phone in his lap and gets down to the business of being a superuser. Here are some stills from that part of the video.
Postle’s mood is jovial as he contemplates how to respond to villain’s river bet pre-phone-in-lap:
Chatting to opponent just before folding:
While next hand starts, Postle preps his phone...
... and starts to place it...
...on the seat between his legs.
Done!
As he slides his chair back towards the table, he’s careful to keep his torso away from the table to have clearance to see his phone when he lowers his head to spy it.
But before he has a chance to check his phone, someone walking behind him catches his attention, causing him to quickly swivel his head around to see where they are.
And as this person moves behind him, Postle then glances to the other side to see if they have passed.
Satisfied that the interloper can’t see his phone, he drops his head towards his lap...
But that simple downward look apparently wasn’t giving him a clear enough view of his phone screen, so he cranes his neck to the right to get a better angle at it.
Alrighty then! Time to get serious as a superuser.
I would agree with you here in this case if the opponent with A4 (who was OOP) hadn’t made the exaggerated check on the flop on this *live* game.. Players at higher stakes are likely to be more careful and not telegraph such things, but lower stakes recreational players in *live* games, not so much. OOP Players with long-shot weak hands on the flop in a multiway pot who weren’t the preflop aggressors will tend to tend to try to be invisible, checking as quietly as they can so as to not draw attention to themselves and induce a bet from the pre-flop aggressor they’d prefer to not have to call to see the turn. But one with a hidden strong hand wants to do the opposite, and the exaggerated check is an attempt to falsely advertise complete disinterest in the flop, hoping the players behind will get giggidy with it.
Again, I’m not talking about what you’d see in a higher stakes game featuring mostly pros, such as ones more frequently featured on Live at the Bike, but in the three-plus years I practically lived at the lower stakes games at Caesars AC, I can’t tell you how many time I got burned by that fake signal before wising up to it.
On now to discuss Postle and his Crotch Theory Optimal play.
Just watched most of this vid for the first time and I LOLed at seeing Postle using an exaggerated check in a hand to induce more action from others in the hand he knew he was crushing, when only someone in God-mode would know this.
At about 25:25, the action after the turn card falls is on Postle, were his pocket Ks are way ahead in the hand against three other opponents, including the flop aggressor, despite the board showing two As on an otherwise dry board. Here, he sits shuffling his chips for a short while, Hollywooding for his audience of suckers.
Then, getting ready to exaggeratedly-check-to-feign-weakness, he releases the chips he is shuffling in his right hand and balls it into a loose fist.
Then quite suddenly, he raises up his balled hand...
...and quickly brings it back down to knock on the table, signaling a “I’m not happy with this board” check.
Sure enough, after the two other flop limpers check, the stone-cold-bluffing flop aggressor fires a second barrel, this time a pot-size bet that was about 4x times his flop bet. Postle then practically snap-calls that huge turn bet with two players still behind to act, but did so rather smoothly, as if to say “Don’t mind me (,suckers). I’m just calling because I’m a donkey.”
(Sure you are, Mike.)
P.S. I’m not claiming to discover this example of Postle “most likely”’cheating, that was done by Joey Ingram, and included in this guys vid as an example. I just was amused to see that Postle did the exaggerated-check in a hand after I mentioned above one of his opponents doing it against him in another hand, and discussing how it’s a thing that one can readily see at lower stakes live games.
https://twitter.com/twt/status/1182118572987949057
Blowing up huge.
Also I have a friend who works as a DJ at Sirius XM who is only a casual poker player, and doesn't follow poker news. I mentioned to him that there's a "huge scandal in poker right now" and he responded, "Postle?"
Good ol' Mikey is famous now.
Second but way down the list is the PokerNews Article about WPN basically regressing into Botland and also apparently they arent paying rake out as they agreed..
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2019/...t=pn-hp-hero-4
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Video covering the story including Matt Berkey
https://www.ktnv.com/news/local-poke...ard-technology
First Stones tweets in about a week:
https://twitter.com/twt/status/1182815293489344512
https://twitter.com/twt/status/1182815378835001344
Postle's got a great attorney.
“I guess he wins a lot of hands of poker,” Portanova said. “I don’t gamble, because that’s how many hands I lose. But we don’t know what the facts are.
“I can just say this: When I play poker I lose almost every hand, so I know such streaks are possible.”
Veronica now on with Douglas Polk
Also lol at Postle lawyer probably want to put in a fold right now if you were him and find someone else.
Can any lay person detect if they are playing with an rfid deck? Or is it impossible to tell? Just curious
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