Justin Kuraitis, the poker supervisor who oversaw Stones Playing Corridor when Mike Postle was accused of cheating in 2019, spoke publicly for the primary time in years and known as out dozens of poker gamers who took half in a lawsuit towards him.
These 88 gamers have been a part of a 2019 class action lawsuit claiming they have been cheated out of six figures on the Northern California on line casino. The lawsuit was largely dismissed after which settled in September 2020 with plaintiffs, who have been represented by Mac VerStandig, receiving $40,000 — only a fraction of the thousands and thousands they have been suing for. Postle was not named within the go well with.
Kuraitis, who has lengthy maintained Postle’s innocence and denied data of dishonest, took a victory lap on the time and known as out the plaintiffs for “the ache and unfairness of their allegations and the wrath of the social media mob and web bullying lingers.”
4 and a half years later, Kuraitis made it clear his emotions towards the plaintiffs have not modified. In an X Spaces conversation hosted by Omar of The Omar Present, Kuraitis mentioned he hoped Postle did cheat them.
“As a result of the people who he cheated, the people who joined that lawsuit to try to get a pair further bucks for his or her playing habit and sued me and dragged my identify by the mud with nothing however pretend made-up knowledge, I truthfully hope they obtained cheated out of tons of of 1000’s of {dollars}. I actually hope they did. So if he did cheat, at the least he cheated these folks. A minimum of he cheated these f***ing folks.”
Mike Postle, Justin Kuraitis Break Silences in Wake of Settlement
Kuraitis 80% Positive of Postle’s Innocence
The previous Stones poker director has lengthy maintained Postle’s innocence, however he certified his place on Wednesday, claiming that he thought there was round an 80% probability that Postle was harmless.
“I do not know if he did or not. I actually cannot say for positive,” he admitted.
He additionally claimed that he personally reviewed all streams performed by Postle and logged his wins and losses, although when pressed to reveal a win charge he mentioned he was solely “greenback quantities.” He would not expose the info apart from saying it assorted drastically from the info gathered by “web sleuths.”
Kuraitis additionally spoke about his employment at Stones and claimed he was by no means let go over the Postle state of affairs. He mentioned he stayed on as an worker all through the COVID-19 pandemic and left amicably when he was demoted to a seller place. He mentioned he has no need to ever return to poker.
Kuraitis has lengthy criticized poker media and mainstream retailers that coated the scandal. Throughout Wednesday’s Areas dialog, he revealed he deliberate on suing ESPN, Barstool Sports activities, and different retailers for defamation, however the go well with by no means materialized, partially due to how troublesome it’s to win defamation fits.
Postle additionally spoke in the course of the practically eight-hour X Areas dialog, as he did in a similar conversation in February 2024.
The explosive Areas interview got here every week and a half after Postle whistleblower Veronica Brill launched a YouTube series breaking down the scandal from her perspective. The fourth installment of the “God Mode” sequence was printed on Wednesday.
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