This is begging the question. If I ask how you know he’s cheating, you can’t say it’s because his results were very different after cheating. That requires me to assume the conclusion.
Impossible? It seems like the only way a winrate could literally be impossible is if he won more than was ever in play or something. Why couldn’t he play perfect merely from guessing correctly a bunch of times in a row? It’s obviously not impossible.
You are merely claiming it cannot be done and I don’t really see why it can’t. I watched TV poker on Travel Channel back around 2003 and remember it was quite a setup. There was some unknown angular Swede winning every pot against a cadre of old Vegas pros and the announcers were suggesting it was so improbable and they’d never seen anything like it. He was intimidating–sleek and muscular like a jungle cat. I remember this one announcer in an off-the-rack suit said something like “You can’t put in another raise with an Ace Jack here, folks.” I’m thinking why not–these players are all giant pussies. Sure enough this Swede does exactly that and some idiot reluctantly counts out a call. “Now the ten of spade comes off. He really has to hate that card.” And this balls-of-steel Swede wastes no time sliding another clay castle into the middle with absolutely nothing and the hefty fellow sighs and folds. Of course, this dude could have simply whipped all of their asses at any point like Tiger Woods on the 97 pro tour. And, predictably, they kept folding the winning hands until he was hoisting a giant dinner plate. I suppose he must have been cheating too.
This is like a madlib for every conspiracy theory I’ve ever read.
I don’t believe this is accurate. He wasn’t absolutely 100% perfect. I remember people showing some examples where he called and lost.
So basically your position so far is that he must be cheating because no one has ever been this good before. The things he’s doing are impossible because no other person has done them. I think you need more specific arguments than that because it’s not clear to me why he can’t simply be that good. Like, just looking at it as an outsider I see a guy owning a bunch of sore losers who decided to retaliate. There must be some esoteric reasons specific to poker you can give since so many pros seem convinced he’s cheating.