It wasn’t just that he folded the worse hand to a better hand (the other player did indeed have a flush), it was that in nearly identical spots Postle would call or raise when the other player didn’t have the best hand. But Brill had seen Postle do things like this time and time again. It may not seem like a big deal to fold a one-card straight with a flush possible on the board. … He’s Jesus Christ if he folds right now.” If he folds this hand I’m going to fucking get up. When she’s not in the booth doing commentary for Stones Live, she’s a regular in the streamed games and has played across the table with him many times. “He runs so pure if he makes this fold,” Veronica Brill said into the microphone during the Twitch broadcast as she waited for Postle to decide what to do. The regulars at Stones are in such awe of Postle’s abilities to know where he’s at in a hand at any given time that they call him “Apostle” or “the Devil.” They show custom graphics during the broadcast when Postle’s in hands that show him with horns on his head, or with a halo and long hair and a beard-as Jesus Christ. When they have a better hand than him, but hands that aren’t very strong, he bluffs with nearly 100 percent success. When they bluff against him, he will re-raise with hands like bottom pair. Mike Postle is one of the loosest players in the game, opting to play nearly half of the hands he is dealt, and is known to take marginal hands all the way to the river, where he then outplays his opponents. Postle checked, the next player checked, and the third player went all in for his last $2,500. The turn was a 5 of clubs, giving Postle a straight to the 6, but also potentially making a flush for one of the other two players. Already the action in this hand is ridiculous, and the pot is almost $4,000. Five players were in for $350 each for the flop, and the pot was nearly $2,000. Postle called, as did two other players after him and the two initial raisers.
Before it was his turn to act there was already a raise to $100 and a re-raise to $350. Even the commentators, two regular players from Stones Live named Veronica Brill and Jake Rosenstiel, were watching the game on a half-hour delay as they commented on the action.Īfter about three hours, one player at the table, Mike Postle, the most successful competitor in the Stones Live broadcast’s history, had run his stack of chips up to about $12,000 when he found himself in a hand with pocket 6s. The audience was able to see the players’ face-down cards because of RFID sensors in the cards and on the table, and the game was broadcast on a half-hour delay so that viewers couldn’t relay information from the broadcast to the players during the hands. The game was being streamed on Twitch, part of a regular broadcast from the casino called Stones Live. On January 12, a group of poker players gathered at Stones Gambling Hall near Sacramento to play no-limit hold’em.
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