he doesn’t actually think it isn’t safe, he’s 99% a content creator now
paying her back would be admitting he was wrong, neither he nor anybody on his side is ever doing that
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Isn’t his youtube channel basically dead?
his website upswingpoker does pretty well
Everything I knew about him before this is he was a totally stand up guy. Still think he is and just caught up in all this insanity.
My vague understanding is that an RFID reader that small would not be strong enough to read Robbi’s cards if it were in Robbi’s water bottle.
Also, the RFID signal from a card doesn’t tell you what the card is, from what I understand. The card RFID just gives you a serial number, probably non-sequential if they are serious about security, and you have to map it to the card in the computer being used to produce the stream.
Reading the RFID signal at the table seems to be a dead end. Any cheating would seem to require someone on the inside with access to the data. The path to coming close to a definitive answer is either finding someone in production who is a likely confederate or determining that no one seems likely to be involved. Instead of chasing shadows on streamed video, the super sleuths who think she’s guilty should be trying to get a list of HCL employees and digging into their lives.
GMan’s donation reminds me of when Bryn Kenney added a buy-in to the WSOP main event giveaway organized by Nadya Magnus.
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Watching this video I am now 99.9% no cheating. There is no world in which someone does this interview, and several others , days after cheating someone for $300k+.
Lol she claims they are going to play HU!
I don’t think the water bottle is likely but I have no idea which is why I think having an expert go over this for the community and these stream houses is important. What’s the range? Does it correlate to size? Can it work through different objects? They work through the table from close range, obviously.
Correct but you can map it in any reading system. They should be rotating decks regularly and not using the same deck again for a couple months. But these decks aren’t cheap, either. So I doubt they’re rotating them as much as they should.
I disagree but we really don’t know. Hence needing an RFID expert to help the community.
The inside would include the shuffle manufacturer, card manufacturer, table manufacturer, RFID reader manufacturer, graphics software manager, stream software manager, hardware managers for the stream production, and perhaps more.
In that session. Why did he not play with the ahead/behind knowledge
I don’t think it’s fair to call this a fact without a lot more evidence that this type of cheating would be this trivially easy with widely available equipment. I’m not saying it’s not possible, and I don’t know a lot about the technology, but reading cards from across the table seems like a stretch.
Your posts contain a lot of reasonable skepticism and uncertainty, but this part struck me as moving too far toward certainty that it’s even possible.
I agree 100% that this should be a wakeup call and security processes (and transparency) should be ramped up significantly. Unfortunately it’s also true that they wouldn’t want to be completely transparent about their security setup and any countermeasures in place.
Finally, as described, your device seems closer to a pack of gum than a stick, and this is not an insignificant difference.
Would returning to the ancient era of hole-card cameras be any easier in terms of managing the security of the game?
Didn’t Postle give an interview 7 days after the allegations went public? 9/28 to 10/5 is what it looks like.
Like I said, there are plausible scenarios where the method isn’t confirmed to be working until a couple hours later, or it can only work against certain players based on proximity, and it makes sense to stop after accusations.
At this point evidence can rule out some methods but not others, while ruling out some methods could potentially increase or decrease suspicion on various people.
I believe the ability to read an RFID is correlated to how much power you use in the reader. Also, I think metal objects can interfere with the signal. Just look at how far off the cards are from the reader when it can’t read cards.
I think they generally use two decks per night, rotating each hand, which is how long a regular deck would be used at a normal table, but they do have to replace at least a few cards each session because the cards are more fragile than a regular deck.
I saw a video of this device in action. You could 100% use it to read your neighbors’ hole cards, so at a minimum one person could get 2 players’ hole cards in a given hand. A team could get at least 4.
Again, I’m not saying Robbi and/or Rip did this. That post was very clear about addressing this vulnerability as a community, not leveling accusations.
I’ll try to find the video later, I’m out running errands.
Shrug. I wonder what youll think about this thread a year from today
Yes, definitely. But it would drive up production costs significantly.
Yeah imo this should change. Each deck should get 30 minutes then goes into storage for a while under lock and key. It would make it extremely difficult to bring an outside reader in and map their decks. Over the course of a year it wouldn’t cost them anything extra, up front they’d have to shell out for more decks.
Yeah to clarify I should have said a pack of sticks of gum, if that makes sense. Like the packs of old fashioned size of sticks, not the small ones like Orbit.
Maybe the better description is the about size of a flash drive.
The thing is that i think somewhere in your head you think there were a lot of weird things happening during the stream on and off the table. When in fact there was absolutely nothing strange other than that one j4 hand. Everything else happened exactly as you’d expect
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