Mike Postle was born December 26, 1976 in northern Wisconsin. He started playing card games at age 4 with his family. Mike began work in the casino industry right after his high school graduation in 1995. He then moved to Tunica, Mississippi in 1998 at age 21 to continue casino employment. That's where he learned Texas Hold’em and simultaneously fell in love with it after playing home games and then watching the classic movie “Rounders”.
Mike began playing full time in 2003, just a few months prior to his good friend, Chris Moneymaker, winning the World Series of Poker. Mike quit his casino job months later and has played poker for a living as his only income since. He moved to Las Vegas in 2008 and then to Sacramento, California in 2010 right before the birth of his daughter, Annabella. He married in 2011 but he got the marriage annulled (due to fraud) in 2015, which happens to be the same year he earned a Player of the Year title and officially met poker personality Veronica Brill. A custody battle then ensued from 2015 to 2017 where he eventually gained full custody of his daughter later in 2017.
Mike was one of the biggest online poker players/winners from 2003-2007 on various sites, most notably Ultimatebet.com. Ironically, he has further insight regarding that story, which was coincidentally one of the scenes of the biggest online poker scandals in history. And then in late September 2019, Stones Gambling Hall, located in Citrus Heights, near Sacramento, California, came to prominence due to a cheating scandal that became known as Postlegate where Veronica Brill publicly accused Mike Postle of cheating in poker games he participated in during livestream events. This led to him being “cancelled” by most in the poker community.
