Controversial video poker professional Rob Singer, who is featured here on our website on pages where he explains his strategy, told me that he has been challenged to a contest by a member of another message board forum.
Here's what Rob told me in an email and in a phone conversation:
The challenge involves "30 hours of play on any machine, and he'll (the other message board poster) will match what I win in cash and if I lose I'll pay him the same amount."
Rob said to me -- "tell him I'll do it! And here are my conditions: I'll play 30 hours worth of sessions on my $1 thru $100 single-play strategy. Up thru the $25 machines will be at the Aquarius in Laughlin on BP & SDBP. The $100 machine, if necessary, will be at Bellagio."
For those of you not familiar with Singer's strategy, he uses a win goal, but if he loses at the low denominations he moves up to higher denominations until he wins.
Rob continued: "Because of the high limits and therefore high win/loss possibilities involved, we each will put up a $300,000 cash escrow with Anthony Curtis. (Anthony Curtis is the Publisher of the Las Vegas Advisor, and the challenge was made to Singer on the LasVegasAdvisor.com message board. I have also interviewed Anthony Curtis and you can see our videos on our Vegas-related web pages.)
Singer also told me that he'd like a 30 day notice of when the event is proposed to be held.
If the challenge or contest does take place, we will be there to videotape it and the results.