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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6265657, member: 397965"] Yeah its a pretty good article providing a lot of information about the personal situation of both Veronica and Mike. I had not heard about the messy divorse of Mike, but this is obviously exactly such a situation, which I suspected might have pushed him into looking for an "easy" way out of his financial trouble. The weak point of the article is, that the journalist dont seem to quite understand, what it is, that is so suspicous about the way, Mike played. Its not, that he was not "following a GTO style" or had a very high VPIP. Sure his VPIP was very high, but that was kind of normal for these streams, and other reasonably good players like Harlan also had a high VPIP. What is much more damming is the inconsistency in playing style, where he always seem to make the perfect decision not against the entire range, his opponent could have, but against their exact holding. Like the example, I have already given, where he just check-call instead of going after the rest of his opponents stack, when he have the near nuts, but his opponent happen to have him beat. But then later on in the same session he check-raise in a situation, where its much more likely, he is beat, and he has far more money at risk. This just does not make any sense, and neither do the hands like that one against Marle, which became the provervial straw to break the camels back. Nobody fold top pair with a gutshot to just a normal C-bet on the turn in a heads-up pot HJ vs. BB. You at least call and see a river, and then maybe you can consider a fold, if the opponent fire a large third barrel and you dont think, they have enough bluffs in their range. Or perfect tailored bet sizes like the massive overbets, when the opponent happen to have the same hand, so that Mike was essentially freerolling. And all the cases, where he picked perfect spots to bluff without ever getting it massively wrong and bluffing into the nuts. This to me is the real evidence, not his winrate or his VPIP or anything like that. And then of course his table demeneour, where Doug Polk did a great job of finding some of the most damming moments. Like being visibly annoyed, when the stream only displayed 2 of the 4 cards in a PLO hand. Or starting to raise his arms after getting caught bluffing, before his opponents hole cards had been revealed. [/QUOTE]

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