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While most of us just want to play an honest game of cards, we, unfortunately, live in an age where cheating is more prevalent than ever. Exercising a basic level of vigilance can really go a long way in avoiding falling victim to various poker cheaters and scammers. We start a series of posts about different forms of cheating you may experience in live poker games around the world. This articles were originally posted by ZapahZamazki at the biggest Russian poker community Gipsyteam and afterwards translated by Worldp.

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A poker player by the name of Mike Postle finds himself at the center of a cheating row after the poker community’s watched some extremely suspicious cash game hands from a Californian poker room.

Stones Gambling Hall in Citrus Heights, California regularly streams its cash games on the internet. Viewers tune in to watch $1/$3 and $5/$5 no-limit hold’em games that play quite loosely. Postle is a regular in these games and even has his own “Postle and Pals” personalized games. He is one of the stars of the show thanks to his loose-aggressive style that bamboozles opponents and viewers alike.

Postle is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, winner in Stones’ steamed games. Commentators swoon over him as he makes seemingly impossible calls or bulldozes his way to victory time and time again. People wonder how Postle manages to never lose any meaningful sums or endures a losing session. These poker fans may now have the answer: he is cheating.

Cheating Allegations Surface

Veronica Brill, a former commentator for the Stones live stream, sent several tweets on Saturday. These tweets drew attention to potential cheating in the Stones games, although Postle was not named. Brill’s tweets sparked a thread on the Two Plus Two poker forums and this, in turn, started an investigation.

Two Plus Two has a long history of outing cheating in live and online poker. The infamous POTRIPPER cheating scandal at the now-defunct Absolute Poker was outed on Two Plus Two. Countless more cases have been investigated over a period of several years.

Joey Ingram, a prominent member of the poker community, combed through hours of footage saved on YouTube. Ingram created a five-hour video of his own where he labeled several of Postle’s hands as suspect, without directly stating Postle was cheating. Ingram created a second video further explaining why certain hands were not normal.

Televised Hands Show Blatant Cheating

Several hands stand out from the crowd, mostly because they are ridiculous calls or perfectly timed bets. The hands do not follow Postle’s crazy image either. For example, Postle is involved in a quite ridiculous bet then three-bet hand on the river of a 6c-4s-Kh-Ah-Ad. Postle’s opponent only had a busted backdoor flush draw. Yet despite this crazy play, Postle managed to get away from pocket kings against aces preflop, and only called a single bet with a full house against a bigger full house.

Another questionable hand highlighting the now obvious cheating involved Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker in a $5/$5 cash game. A $45 straddle was in play, one player called, as did a second before one raised to $245 with ace-king. Moneymaker raised to $705, also with ace-king, and Postle called despite holding five-four offsuit. The action folded to the original raiser and he moved all-in for $2,900. Moneymaker re-shove for $4,100 and Postle called off his $3,400 stack.

High stakes cash game and tournament specialist Scott Seiver, is just one elite pro who has chimed in. After seeing the aforementioned nine-six hand, Seiver tweeted, “Holy sh*t I didn’t see this one. Anyone that doesn’t understand the clear cheat that happens here should switch games they play.”

Stones Gambling Hall announced it was suspending all poker broadcasts with immediate effect on October 2nd. The Stones tweet failed to mention any cheating, although it did say it was conducting an investigation with outside experts. No other comments have been made.

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The cheating saga promises to roll on not least because of the large sums of money lost in the game. Postle is thought to have won at least $200,000 from these games, or approximately $1,400 per hour.

Poker Cheat Attempts to Defend Himself

Postle has attempted to defend himself by claiming he is a winning player over a 16-year period. He claims to be a big winner in online poker circles yet refuses to divulge his aliases. He has also failed to explain why a player who makes large sums of money and who appears to have exceptions poker skills grinds $1/$3 cash games after 16-years in the game, when the plays he has been making are so advanced they would not look out of place in $1,000/$2,000 games.

Sports betting guru Haralabos Voulgaris said it best when discussing Postle’s cheating. “What I am witnessing is either a time-travelling wizard, a cheat or the greatest poker player of all time that can’t seem to get his head about 1-3NL.”

Occam’s Razor states the simplest solution is most likely the right one. Using Voulgaris’ statement, Postle was most definitely cheating.

In this article, we are going to go over some of the methods people use to cheat and gain an unfair advantage. Poker is indeed a game about believing or having an edge over the other players.

Cheating is gaining a completely unfair edge that no one can compete against, not even the best poker players in the world. Similarly, cheating in sports can get you a lifetime ban from the sport. Getting caught cheating in poker could also have extreme consequences.

We will be going over how to cheat at poker, but it is more for educational purposes so you can avoid getting cheated by someone else. Cheating in poker is essentially stealing money from the other players at the table. You aren’t playing poker any more when you’re cheating, you are stealing.

Live Poker Cheats

There are many more ways to cheat in live poker than in online poker. This is because you are dealing with a live dealer and physical cards.

Holding Cards

In Texas Hold’Em this cheating method would be more difficult to pull off as you only hold and discard two cards. In a game like Pot Limit Omaha where you get four cards, this would be a lot easier to pull off.

This method will involve holding onto 1 or more cards when you discard the rest of your hand. The card(s) you have held onto will be brought out in a later hand. An Ace or King would be likely candidates.

Marked Cards

Very tiny marks or dots on the back of cards can be made undetected to the untrained eye. They can even be subtle enough that you wouldn’t notice them at a very close distance. Some cheating players even go to the extent of marking the back of the cards with special ink and they wear special sunglasses so they can see the marks more clearly.

Online Poker Cheats

There are less ways to cheat in online poker due to there being no room for error of dealing, collecting chips and having a randomized deck that cannot be marked.

Collusion

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This form of cheating is not limited to just online poker, but can also be found in live poker. Collusion is basically teaming up with at least 1 other player at the table and you will play together as a team.

This can be done by sharing hole cards with each other and performing certain betting, checking and raising actions that trap other players’ money.

Sharing cards also gives an advantage for card removal and will allow all cheating players to bluff and win at a higher percentage than the other players at the table.

This is probably the biggest threat to online poker. Any successful poker site that wishes to stay open long term has to be extremely vigilant in detecting, banning and preventing future colluding players.

Soft Playing

Soft playing is not the same as collusion. Soft playing is an unfortunately common practice among friends who do not wish to take each other’s money. Players who are soft playing are not sharing hands or colluding against other players.

However, when these players are in a hand together, they are not looking to make big pots or bluffs and will check a lot of hands down.

It’s one step below collusion and isn’t fair to the other players at the table. This style of cheating is a lot harder to catch as you would need a big sample of evidence to definitively say these players are soft playing against each other.

It’s very dangerous to soft play. If you are caught, the online or live host has no way of knowing if you were simply soft playing or implementing a collusion strategy.

Multi Accounting

This strategy is similar to collusion, however, it is much easier to detect and get caught. It is basically creating multiple accounts and having them all sit at one table. If done correctly, you more or less cannot lose.

This is easier to detect on most poker sites as they do not allow you to have more than 1 account. They will not allow you to sit at the same table when played from the same IP address. A lot of poker sites won’t let you log in when using a VPN and there isn’t much of a work around for this. Some poker sites even collect other information such as hardware ID, or some other identifying information on your computer and would be able to quickly detect this.

How To Not Get Cheated In Online Poker

Do not play on sites that don’t have a high level of security. Play on a site that has strong repercussions for cheating. A site that has developed great detections for colluding is going to be the best site to play on. You want a site that is going to ban and seize all funds of cheating players and implement evolving strategies to catch future players who attempt to cheat.

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Report any players you are suspicious of cheating. A good poker site will do a full investigation into this player and might even reward you.

How To Not Get Cheated In Live Poker

Don’t play in any games where there isn’t some level of trust. Casinos are usually a safe bet and they will be sure to seize the money from a cheating player and give him a lifetime ban from all of their casinos.

Summing Things Up On How To Not Get Cheated In Poker

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Don’t play on any poker site that doesn’t have high security. Don’t play in a live game that is hosted by someone you don’t deem as trustworthy. If you think someone is cheating, report it and leave the table.

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