In suburban Sacramento, one poker player got so good that casino regulars started referring to him simply as 'God.' But many who played with him had a less ethereal hypothesis: God was cheating. (From 2020)
Brill could detect no trace of such a cerebral approach to poker in Postle's game. Time and again he made decisions that seemed to fly in the face of game theory optimal. The biggest oddity that stood out to Brill was the high rate at which Postle stayed in games prior to the flop, as measured by a statistic called “voluntarily put in pot,” or VPIP. Postle often stuck around with hole cards that would lead most elite players to fold.
By the late summer, however, there were so many whispers about Postle that his rivals were no longer content to take Kuraitis at his word. Rosenstiel, the Sacramento pro, says he approached the casino's management and proposed they look for potential security flaws that Postle might be taking advantage of. But management refused, assuring him there was no truth to the cheating rumors.
After a sleepless night, Postle sent a long and rambling text to Brill. He blasted her for going public instead of coming to him to discuss the matter privately, and he wrote several hundred words in defense of his poker skills. “I played against and consistently beat some of the best players in the world,” he claimed. “I profited over 2 million online from summer of 2003 until the beginning of 2008.
In 2008, Brill moved to Del Rio, Texas, to marry a US Air Force fighter pilot she'd met while he was taking part in a training exercise in Alberta. Four years later, the couple relocated to Sacramento when her husband was promoted to fly U-2 spy planes out of a nearby base. Though she had little professional experience outside nursing, Brill convinced a local hospital system to hire her for an IT job.
Ingram doubted there was anything to Brill's story, but he decided to check out a year-old game on Stones' YouTube channel. Before long he was deep down the Mike Postle rabbit hole, reviewing hours of Texas Hold 'Em footage in lieu of eating or sleeping. “I watched every hand he played. The guy's running and gunning and making these amazing plays, amazing bluffs,” Ingram says. “I watched four sessions that first night, and it was the same thing in all four sessions.
With public opinion turning against him, Postle sought to seize back control of the narrative. He agreed to appear on an October 4 podcast hosted by Mike “The Mouth” Matusow. Sounding groggy and disjointed, Postle pleaded his innocence and argued that he'd been targeted by opponents who envied his minor fame: “There was a secret hatred for me for being made into, I guess, what you would compare to a reality TV star.
But the brain tumor story was a lie: An MRI taken just over a week before her “surgery” showed that her brain was normal. Before Postle became aware of how thoroughly he'd been fooled, he also learned that his wife was struggling with serious mental health and substance abuse issues. The couple tried to work out their problems in therapy, but the marriage was doomed: Postle filed for an annulment in December 2015.
Justin Kuraitis, Stones' tournament director, called Milner in October and asked whether the RFID table had vulnerabilities that Postle could have exploited.
As the legal pressure mounted, the dwindling number of people from the Stones scene who'd stayed in touch with Postle worried that he was buckling under the stress.attempts to get in touch with Postle this past winter, including by visiting his home. I could tell right away the place was in rough shape. There was a downed tree in the overgrown front yard, the knob on the security door was loose, and the bent second-floor blinds were shut tight.
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