{"id":129192,"date":"2020-03-06T16:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T00:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=129192"},"modified":"2020-03-06T18:09:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T02:09:45","slug":"stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Stones Gambling Hall Pushes for Dismissal of Mike Postle Poker Cheating Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stones Gambling Hall has submitted a motion to dismiss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/poker-players-sue-stones-gambling-hall-mike-postle-for-30-million\/\">the $30 million lawsuit<\/a> against owner Kings Casino LLC, Mike Postle, and tournament director Justin Kuraitis. The motion argues that the allegations of cheating during live-streamed poker games is nothing more than sour grapes from losing players.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_129194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129194\" data-style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-129194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit.jpg\" alt=\"Stones Gambling Hall Lawsuit\" width=\"1200\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit.jpg 2016w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit-142x105.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit-148x110.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit-404x300.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-129194\"class=\"text-description\">Stones Gambling Hall has filed to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges poker player Mike Postle cheated during livestreamed poker games. (Image: Paul Dyer\/Archello)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>24 poker players have sued Stones Gambling Hall and the two individuals, accusing Postle of getting inside information about their hole cards during the streaming cash games sessions.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Stones Sees Nothing But Sore Losers in Lawsuit<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Stones fired back against those allegations in a court filing that was submitted Wednesday night. In that filing, the poker room denied that any cheating had occurred during the livestreams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis lawsuit reflects the oldest complaint of gamblers \u2013 that their lack of success means they were cheated,\u201d the motion for dismissal filed by Kings Casino LLC states. \u201cStones had no stake in who won money or lost money in the poker games. All Stones did was to provide a venue for the poker game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move provoked derision from the poker community, with professional player Allen Kessler calling it \u201cembarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Embarrassing response to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mac_verstandig?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mac_verstandig<\/a> Postle lawsuit from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StonesGambling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stonesgambling<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Rather than own up to any wrongdoing they just deny anything happened.<\/p>\n<p>How anyone continues to play there is beyond explanation.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/usst1Xj0Vx\">https:\/\/t.co\/usst1Xj0Vx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Allen Kessler (@AllenKessler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllenKessler\/status\/1235782819730907136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Maurice VerStandig, who filed the lawsuit, told <em>The Sacramento Bee<\/em> that he planned to fight the motion to dismiss the case.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\"><p><em>\u201cI find it regrettable that they have elected to portray my clients as sore or otherwise frustrated losers,\u201d VerStandig told the Bee. \u201cBut we look forward to responding to their legal contentions through the judicial process and will do so in due course.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stones responded to the initial cheating allegations by suspending its streaming cash games. The gambling hall also announced that it would investigate the claims, but says it hasn\u2019t found any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have found no evidence that indicates there was cheating in the games in question,\u201d Stones said in a statement. \u201cStones is confident that it will prevail in this unwarranted lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Lawsuit: Postle Posted Outrageous Win Rates<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The players who competed against Postle feel differently. In the lawsuit, they claim that Postle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/poker-experts-suspicious-over-mike-postles-high-win-rate-as-he-denies-allegations\/\">won at a statistically impossible rate<\/a>, posting winrates far beyond those of world class players. Postle also consistently made incredible reads, folding to better hands and calling bluffs correctly on almost all occasions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\"><p><strong>In short, Mr. Postle\u2019s poker winnings \u2013 considered in the prism of both metrics and hand-for-hand decision making \u2013 on Stones Live Poker have been not merely outliers, but, in fact, exponential outliers, representing a quality of play multiple degrees higher than that achieved by the best poker players in the world,\u201d the lawsuit reads.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There were times when Postle lost on the Stones livestream. However, the lawsuit states that this happened only when a \u201cchief confederate\u201d identified as \u201cJohn Doe 1,\u201d was absent. That may or may not be Kuraitis, who defending Postle when many in the poker community accused him of cheating.<\/p>\n<p>While Stones denies any cheating took place, it also objects to the lawsuit on the grounds that the players don\u2019t directly accuse the poker room of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaintiffs do not allege that Stones benefited from Mr. Postle\u2019s alleged cheating,\u201d the motion to dismiss reads. \u201cPlaintiffs even tacitly concede that cheating by players harms Stones\u2019 business and reputation. It is confounding that Plaintiffs now sue Stones rather than seeking its assistance in their shared goal of preventing cheating in poker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stones Gambling Hall has submitted a motion to dismiss the $30 million lawsuit against owner Kings Casino LLC, Mike Postle, and tournament director Justin Kuraitis. The motion argues that the allegations of cheating during live-streamed poker games is nothing more than sour grapes from losing players. 24 poker players have sued Stones Gambling Hall and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":129194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stones Gambling Hall Pushes for Dismissal of Postle Cheating Lawsuit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stones Gambling Hall has filed for the dismissal of a lawsuit which alleges that Mike Postle cheated during live streaming poker sessions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stones Gambling Hall Pushes for Dismissal of Postle Cheating Lawsuit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stones Gambling Hall has filed for the dismissal of a lawsuit which alleges that Mike Postle cheated during live streaming poker sessions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-07T00:46:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-03-07T02:09:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2016\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1496\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit\/\",\"name\":\"Stones Gambling Hall Pushes for Dismissal of Postle Cheating Lawsuit\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-07T00:46:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-07T02:09:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77\"},\"description\":\"Stones Gambling Hall has filed for the dismissal of a lawsuit which alleges that Mike Postle cheated during live streaming poker sessions.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stones-gambling-hall-pushes-for-dismissal-of-postle-cheating-lawsuit\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stones-Gambling-Hall-Lawsuit.jpg\",\"width\":2016,\"height\":1496,\"caption\":\"Stones Gambling Hall has filed to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges poker player Mike Postle cheated during livestreamed poker games. 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