Possible scandal in the Pokerverse

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A well known player that plays on the Stones Casinos poker stream is being accused of cheating. https://streamable.com/0epeq

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https://fox40.com/2019/10/03/poker-world-puts-stones-gambling-hall-under-the-microscope-amid-cheating-allegations/

A local gambling scandal has lit up the poker world on social media.

Wednesday night, three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Doug Polk said he is almost certain something nefarious has been going on inside the poker room at Stones Gambling Hall in Citrus Heights.

"It's been quite a big story in the poker world because we've not really seen something quite like this, such brazen cheating," Polk told FOX40.

The allegations surround a frequent poker player at Stones who, over years, seemingly never lost.

"He won almost every single time he played, and no one's that good," Polk said.

FOX40 will not be naming or showing the face of the man accused of cheating. As of Thursday night, FOX40 had not heard back after reaching out to him.

The other key aspect is the radio-frequency identification technology used when Stones broadcasts its poker games online. The technology allows those behind the scenes to know what cards players have when the game is broadcast on a delay.

Polk said told FOX40 his theory about the allegations.

"It's really hypothetical at this point, it's just the most logical conclusion. Somebody in the back was working with one of the players to transmit that information in the middle of the hand to a player at the table so that he knew the exact two cards you would have," he said.

Poker player, podcaster and YouTuber Joey Ingram said he was originally contacted by a now-former employee of Stones with the allegations that he agreed to look into.

"The guy is potentially on a livestream doing this, making hundreds of thousands of dollars, taking money from players," Ingram told FOX40. "And then it leads to the question: Are there other people that are doing this? Did this happen to me when I played in these games? It just makes you wonder what else is going on out there."

After the revelations, Stones issued the following statement, which reads in part:

Yesterday, we temporarily halted all broadcasts from Stones. We have also, as a result, halted the use of RFID playing cards. We have taken these steps proactively while we conduct a multifaceted and thorough investigation into every element of these games.

Now, Polk and the poker world are very interested to see how the investigation plays out.

"This adds a little bit of confidence to people that you are going to get a fair game and if you don't, there will be ramifications for the people that cheat against you," Polk said.

While Stones conducts its own investigation, FOX40 also reached out to the California Bureau of Gambling Control about an investigation on its end. They said, "To protect its integrity, we are unable to comment on, even to confirm or deny, a potential or ongoing investigation."

[Spooky]

So it seems the day he started cheating has been discovered. On July 18th 2018 he started putting his phone on his chairs between his legs.

This guy watched every single hand the guy played from January 2018 until this year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/comments/ddzqgp/when_mike_postle_first_cheated/

...at the end of July 18th 2018 stream, I noticed for the first time in a cut that Mike did not have his phone on the table. So I stopped. Went back to the beginning of the stream and he had it on the table. Went back to middle and it was on the table. So at 2:01, pretty much dead middle of the stream, Mike sits back and drinks his water, and he puts his phone between his legs. He then scoots toward table and then looks back at the phone to make sure he can see it. You can see in the clip that mike has the phone on the chair in between his legs.

In the previous 7 sessions before July 18th at 2:01, he earned $855 on average per session including his PLO sessions.

In the 7 sessions following the July 18th session, he averaged $4000 dollars per session for $27, 750 dollars total.

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Nothing has been "proven" yet, but the amount of perfect decisions he makes for a year and 1/2 after his phone goes between his legs can't be coincidence. Commentators of the stream joked that the only way he could make some of the plays he made were because he somehow knew what his opponents had (The commentators are watching a 30 minute delayed stream with the viewers). He had to have either had inside info sent to his phone from the streams graphics guy or had the live feed sent to his phone.

Someone posted a video of him looking at one of the cameras and mouthing what looked to be "Lance, cards." and they slightly shaking his head no. It just so happens that a guy named Lance's cards were not being picked up by the RFID reader. How would Mike know this in real time?

He would also have strong reactions to cards that came out of the flop, turn or river that, if he had no idea what his opponents were holding, should have been pretty benign cards but just so happened to improve his opponents holdings. Why would he react to these cards this way?

[Eric]

Crazy

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A law suit has been filed.


https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A323fafc0-e583-4c19-91be-dc7d1610c53b

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Veronica Brill: The Real Local Hero Of The Stones Live Poker Cheating Scandal

https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/24337-veronica-brill-the-real-local-hero-of-the-stones-live-poker-cheating-scandal

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A parody Dateline investigation.

https://youtu.be/gLnYlZQSIjc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYxcXlHtS5A