Mike Postle: Beau Rivage Casino Freezes Accused Poker Cheat’s Winnings
Alleged stove poker cheater Mike Postle made an unexpected comeback with a seventh-place destination inwards the Million Dollar Heater Main Event inwards Biloxi, Miss. on Monday. But he may not catch to dungeon the $32,703 first prize.
That’s because deuce stove poker players have filed garnishment orders against Postle in a Magnolia State courtyard to recoup legal fees stemming from the collapse of a traducement case brought by the accused screw in 2021.
Veronica Brill is a former Stones Gambling Granville Stanley Hall employee who, inwards September 2019, first-class honours degree voiced her suspicions about Postle’s unbelievable winning streak at Stones, a Sacramento-area card room.
On Tuesday, she appeared to annunciate she was targeting Postle’s winnings, albeit obliquely: “Lean on your friends, lien on your enemies,” she wrote.
‘Lien on Your Enemies’
Brill later confirmed to Poker.org that she had filed a garnishment order, which is a juridical legal proceeding that orders a tertiary party to make up money owed by a suspect to a complainant – in this case, $27,785. The Beau Rivage Casino, which hosted the tournament, is withholding the money, Poker.org reported.
Todd Witteles, of the Poker Fraud Alert website has also initiated activity to recoup money owed to him, believed to follow a similar amount. Postle sued Brill, Witteles, and a mathematical group of other players for calumniation after they publically accused him of receiving entropy virtually his opponents’ hole cards during live-streamed broadcasts at Stones.
Both Brill and Witteles filed anti-SLAPP litigation to unopen downwardly the suit. a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) is a slip inward which the complainant brings sound process in a bid to silence, intimidate, or censor their critics.
It did the trick. Postle’s lawyer asked to live dismissed from the showcase and Postle withdrew the accommodate shortly afterward, which left hand him with court-ordered legal fees to pay.
Cheating Allegations
In 2019, Postle, a low-stakes grinder of average ability, began to jam the cash games on the Stones Live Poker feast with such frightening proficiency that Brill – an occasional participant inwards the games and reviewer on the programme – began to realise something was non right.
Internet sleuths pored o'er hours of footage of Postle, analyzing custody and discussing the statistical implausibleness of his win rates.
Eighty-eight players later on sued Postle for fraud. They alleged he was workings with an accomplice who had memory access to the rear oddment of the radiocommunication oftenness identification (RFID) system, which reads players’ cards for program purposes.
The lawsuit was nixed past a federal jurist in Calif. who cited an archaic tell jurisprudence that gambling debts cannot follow recovered through the courts. This prompted Postle to sue for defamation.
This week, on the face of it non wishing to get out attending to his reappearance, Postle registered for the tournament under a pseudonym, “Mike Lawrence.” The artifice failed.