Postle called, as did two other players after him and the two initial raisers. Before it was his turn to act there was already a raise to $100 and a re-raise to $350. Even the commentators, two regular players from Stones Live named Veronica Brill and Jake Rosenstiel, were watching the game on a half-hour delay as they commented on the action.Īfter about three hours, one player at the table, Mike Postle, the most successful competitor in the Stones Live broadcast’s history, had run his stack of chips up to about $12,000 when he found himself in a hand with pocket 6s. The audience was able to see the players’ face-down cards because of RFID sensors in the cards and on the table, and the game was broadcast on a half-hour delay so that viewers couldn’t relay information from the broadcast to the players during the hands. The game was being streamed on Twitch, part of a regular broadcast from the casino called Stones Live. On January 12, a group of poker players gathered at Stones Gambling Hall near Sacramento to play no-limit hold’em.
