Are Poker Shows Rigged?

I think the answer with Postle is rather clear… he was checking to see if he had the nuts

Can we just appreciate the fact that a person with a criminal history who was working in the back room of HCL with access to hole cards, on the same night as the J4 hand, "stole" 10K off the stack of the person accused of cheating... yeah.

By far the most suspicious part of the Hustler cheating bit is that Robbi gave it back. I would never in my entire life give back a legit win on no evidence

Nobody is ever calling with J high there ever . She only beats that exact hand Garrett has & then its still a flip . She gave Garret the money back because she wanted it to go away as she had been caught along with the guy in the backroom & didn't want it to blow up . She called in totally the worst spot she could have & the only way she does that if she was cheating . She got let of light & is lucky to still be playing .

This is even more interesting in a way after reading and watching Negreanu and Ausmus during the 50K this week, because Ausmus was insistent that a lot of his hands that were shown he held were not accurate throughout the tournament so it might be funny to find cheating fails, where people thought they won but their cheating went awry by way of faulty RFD

Seems like Doug is saying come play poker at the lodge, high stakes players don’t play at a hustler casino live, throwing some shade at Nick Vertucci

Bro went hard against HCL. Basically called them out as a bunch of back-room cheaters at the end.

Doug should’ve added that Garrett donated the Robbi money to charity and didn’t keep it.

In case anyone is thinking that a cheat could use a RFID card reader at the table to cheat by logging which unique strings of numbers, say, the aces are transmitting, the number sent to the reader is different every time. Every time the card needs to be read, the RFID reader sends a newly generated number to the chip in the card, which then uses a secure algorithm to calculate and generate a different identification number to send back to the reader. That number is then plugged into another algorithm to identify the card for the viewers. The entire interchange is encrypted for good measure. So even if someone gets an RFID card reader close enough to another player's hole cards, it's not going to read anything useful.

His opinion on the title is within the last minute of the video, so you can skip the other 13 min. Oddly enough 30 seconds in I skipped to the end of the video knowing his thoughts of the title would be at the end.

I remember during the original Poker Stars Big Game, there was some speculation as to whether the pros were playing with their own or real money. The production suggested it was legit. However, in one big hand between Phil Laak and Daniel Negreanu, Laak tanked with trip aces on the river before calling the large bet and winning. He immediately explained the tank by saying, “In a real cash game, that’s a fold” … and his table mates’ expression made it look as though Laak just revealed a secret that he shouldn’t have.

Dude, Polk is arguing THE BEST poker narrator, announcer we have in the pro world. Few are as sharp. I love his breakdown of the game. The faces, the issues. Well done, Doug! Long time fan!

Postle got away with it???? I've lost all faith in the legal system

When is Mike Matusow heater gonna start?

Hey Doug, If I could convince Postle to come to the Lodge, would you let me play too? 🤝

‘My personal opinion? I have eyes, and a brain that works.’ Thank you for not being so diplomatic about it. Insane that so many pros say they believe she wasn’t cheating.

If a game is confident in their security they will allow players to ask, "what is your RFID security? What is your stream delay? Do you do background checks on dealers and production staff." They will give you a detailed and comprehensive answer (like Doug does here). If anyone ever says "we can't disclose any information for security reasons"...run.

for those who are unsure when he says i have eyes and a brain that works, he also agrees robbi cheated like every other rationally thinking poker player. hmmm just so happens the guy she was cheating with took/stole his cut(10%) from her stack!!!1 because he was upset she gave the money back to garret if thats not enough evidence i mean calling 100k with j hi lol no! not in this spot

Robbi was a committed recreational player who had studied Garrett and his habitual bluffing. She practiced for months or years to take him down. This was her opportunity and she made the most of it. Garrett publicly accused her of cheating, maligned her play, her and her husband and under pressure, she refunded the money on the condition that he return to play more in the same game that night. She was 100% confident she could win the same money back from him AGAIN and MORE. Unfortunately, he changed his mind, chickened out and absconded with the money she had won from him. In my opinion, she and her husband have a slam dunk case against him for character assassination as proven by thousands of online comments posted against her by people taking Garrett's word for it.

Depending on how often the decks are swapped, the RFID codes could be mapped. It wouldn't be hard to scan your hold cards. Eventually, you could scan the cards for most of the deck. If you had a strong enough scanner, you could probably scan the players to the direct left and right. You wouldn't have a lot of data, but even knowing the value of 1 hold card could mean the difference of a win/loss.