Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Alleged cheating in live streamed games

The poker world is talking about a potential cheating scandal this week which has wider implications for live streamed games in general.





A number of players have accused US player Mike Postle of cheating on several live streamed games at the Stones Gambling Hall in California. In around 15 hours of footage over a number of games he is estimated to have won around $150,000 with no losing sessions. 

How Postle is alleged to have cheated has not been made clear, the nature of the accusations stem from the fact that during the live streams he has made a large amount of near perfect plays like folding 2nd best hands to small bets and hero calling with seemingly weak hands that were ahead. There are too many to mention (indeed it is the volume of them that has aroused suspicion) but, as always, Joe Ingram has been doing his detective work and listed a number of them below as well as producing a five hour video on them:

The streamed games have a 30 minute delay and cellphones were not allowed in some some of them. For a very deep dive into the hands a thread on 2+2 has been exploring the streams in more detail.  

While the poker world is talking about this now this is not the first time Postle has been accused of this. The Stones Live Poker team announced over the weekend that a previous investigation had taken place and no wrong doing found:

Postle has took to Twitter to defend himself, posting several of the disputed hands on his timeline. In a Twitter thread he explained that he has a high variance style that involves picking up on tells and behaviour based reads:

Regardless of the outcome of this story it does shine a light on the potential problems that could arise generally in other live streamed games where the potential to relay hold card information to a player is much greater.  

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Barry carter
Poker Expert

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.