Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
I won't line item veto it, because there's too much that he showed only the parts he wanted to and predictably, as with any weakly spun argument, left out the parts that gutted him. I suggest if you really want to know FACTS, you read what I said.
Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
I see your and that jealous soul Spock's issue lies totally in my winning.
Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
Sure I poke fun at clowns like Spock who spend so much time looking up and providing partial statements, incomplete analyses, and his resulting lies even though he does what they all do when faced with the real facts, and denies it all.
Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
Remember, I'm the celebrity here, and anonymous cowards like Spock and anyone else who throws out unsupportable assertions and claims, only do so out of what they see as failure in a part of their life that is not so in mine.
Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
My "recent" barrage is a most extreme example of that, but the couple of examples from Spock's continuing jealous rantings are simply a small snippet from yearly play results, which obviously can be skewed either way depending on the degree of hurt he feels at the moment.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! For the guy who's always claiming everyone else has you "deep in their brain" you can't HELP but constantly mention me, (while spewing the same drivel), over and over again as evidenced above. I'm so deep in your head I can poke your Medulla Oblongata. But now we know why you frequently say that: because that's what YOU do! You can't stop obsessing over people! I kind of feel sorry for you; it must have been hell with Arci always occupying that tiny brain of yours year after year after year.
Perhaps "Hanoi Rob" would be a better name for you since you seem to have the idea that if you repeat something over and over again everyone will believe it. But, as always, where you turn to platitudes and fabricated fantasies about jealousy in your zest for retaliation, I'm able to actually do something you have NEVER done; document what I post. There are no places where I "left out the parts that gutted him", nor are there "partial statements" and "incomplete analyses". The "unsupportable assertions" are fully supported and any "small snippets" are there because that's all YOU posted. Unlike you I let my posts speak for themselves instead of your practice of constantly trying to convince people that you are relevant.
So now you have the envious task of admitting that you didn't include all your play because you can't stand to admit you are losing, or to stand by your own words. Your choice.
Most of this has been posted before, but since you seem to be so intent on making sure a new crop of readers is aware of it I'm more than happy to post it again. And horror of horrors! I'll actually supply the source so people can verify its accuracy and then decide for themselves how relevant it is! You should try that sometime.
2008
The 2008 figure came from a Gamblers Bookstore interview that aired on November 13th of that year.
At the 17:28 mark Rob states:
I had a very unusually lucky year. I hit 4 royals, I played 25 hours total, and I won directly from the machines 192,000 dollars
In that interview, at the 38:28 mark he also stated:
I could play up to 1400 hands per hour when I was like that, and I used to time myself. I don't think I was accurate because nobody could be accurate like that. But now I might play 500 hands an hour.
2009
I only have a few references for 2009, including what he wrote on VPTruth on 8/19:
Speaking of playing, mine has been on the puny side thus far this year. I believe I've played only 20 sessions and have won just under $11,000 while going 15-5. Of course, the majority of that came on a lucky hit on the $5 machine at M.
The other ones consist of 2 times where he states free play wins, (+$335 and +$650), and a third where he did the same, all of which were posted on VPTruth and all came after his earlier statement with the final one posted in late November:
The Hard Rock's $150 turned into $1670; Sam's Town $140 was cashed out at $540; and Tuscany's puny $30 ended up $4090 because of a dollar royal by holding a lone Ace. "
He ended the year on December 26th writing:
I won just under $11,000 at video poker early on, but I quit playing for profit after that.
2010
He was still writing on VPTRuth in 2010 and in article 516 posted on 4/20 he wrote:
I enter May 2010 ahead $24,500 for the year. I say lucky because I've been blessed with three $2 royals this year and I've not played more than 8 total hours
And this is where Rob's truly awesome powers came into play; on 8/6 in article 523 he posted what appears to be his ability to turn back time:
I've played a whole 5 hours in 2010 and most of it via the free-play route, but thanks to a very unusual four Royal Flushes (one on quarters and THREE on $2 machines) I've profited over $20,000
There were no additional posts that year that stated anything about wins.
2011
While Rob joined the forum in late 2010 I don't believe he started posting in earnest until the spring of the following year. (The index here doesn't go back further than 2013 on his posts). It was on 8/29/11 that he posted this, his first "win":
I stopped at the Edgewater the other day and within 30 minutes I hit a $2 royal playing 25c-$2 ARTT.
On 9/11 he reported this:
Two hands in I was dealt AhKhQhJh10d. She was really into this now and told me to hold the straight. After I giggled and explained the hand to her, the ol' fifth card flip-over popped up again and I had a $2k royal. You know I don't ever tip handpays, and this one not only took 1-1/2 hours (because they had to send out to the owner for the cash) but they couldn't figure how to write up the W2G properly and I had to help.
It appears that with this event Rob told a somewhat different story a year later about it on VPFree:
Last Sept. I hit a dollar royal at a bar in Pahrump while waiting for a take-out pizza. They told me I'd have to come back in 2-3 hours because they didn't have the cash, which I did, but they paid me in 20's.
On October 10th Rob wrote:
I don't play very often any more but I do have 2 royals ($1 & 50c) in Sept. in maybe 1000 hands
That doesn't quite mesh with the above, but the $1 royal matches the story he told a year later on the bar hit and BAGiant posted at The Las Vegas Advisor a week later about a .50 heart royal at that was accompanied by a message stating "Another Royal at the Silverton", which I found interesting because it was never mentioned here even though he was frequently posting yet it was the same suit and denomination as the one he reported the week before at a different location. Hmmm. Good luck to anyone trying to figure out exactly what went on there.
On 10/20 Rob reported this from Terribles:
On $2 ACES BP I was dealt unsuited AJQ with a 2 and 3. All the AP's would religiously hold the JQ, but I never do. The Ace happened to be with the letter "E" in the 4th position and I held it, but it really didn't matter where it was placed because I always hold only the Ace in that situation. Moments later I was looking at 7AAAA and in order for $8000.
Six days later he made this post about another win:
I know Alan is having trouble hitting a royal this year. Kind of odd that I haven't seen a SF in TWO years, but RF's are no stranger to me. I hit another one today on quarters, again on a 6/5 BP machine at the local bar playing $40 while waiting for a pizza and a pulled pork sandwich to take up to the RV.
There were no more wins reported that year, but in early November he wrote:
On the flip side, even though I'm now around Nevada casinos throughout the winter months, I still play, but it's maybe once every 10 days and for 90 minutes tops. In other words, recreationally and without goals or any real meaning--and nothing over $2. The days of sweating it out at the $10, $25 & $100 machines are over for me.
Maybe it was 3 royals, maybe it was 4. Who knows. If he can't keep his stories straight I'm sure as hell not going to be able to do so. But it was still 2 months, and using his statement of 90 minutes every 10 days at 500 hands per hour that comes to only 4500 hands with 3 or 4 royals and one A-C-E-S.
In all the time I've been reading about Rob's escapades there have been very few instances where he mentioned any loss, and since he claims an 85% win rate there wouldn't be many to see. He also claims to use a system of "soft profits" where he removes any win over 40 credits when he plays ARTT which he states greatly reduces the amount of any loss, something that has been conspicuously and inexplicably absent in his most recent win postings. There may be losses out there I'm not aware of, but based on his stated history, the "soft profits", and his purported "win rate" those losses are unlikely to amount to much. Perhaps another reader remembers scores and scores of losses being reported by him. Anyone? Bueller? That is of course unless Rob wants to fess up and admit there were huge losses he didn't mention before.
Kind of a
situation eh Rob?
This post, and the one directly below it, is the post I mentioned earlier where Rob "leaves after meeting his win goal" by continuing to play. Readers can make their own judgements.
All of this is immaterial anyway. Rob's original statement was
Other than the past 18 months or so, I've always had average luck.
I maintain that with or without additional evidence, what the above represents is vastly different from "average luck". This has nothing to do with how much he did or didn't win, and everything to do with how for many, many years Rob has been reporting win ratio's on high value hands that defy common sense. There are no "special plays" that will get you a royal every 2-3 thousand hands, and even The Wizard's calculations on how many hands it would take to "maximize the number of royals at all costs" came to 23,081 hands and an expected return on JOB of 51.98%. I just don't find Rob's claims remotely credible, especially when considering the various other issues that seem to constantly surround him.
I think the problem with Rob is that he posts so much he can't remember what he wrote, which shouldn't be an issue with factual posts. It reminds me of when he posted here about his banishment at WOV. He wrote:
I ended up getting banned after verbally abusing MathExtremist for suddenly altering the parameters by requiring me to pay everyone's travel, food & hotel costs.
What he fails to remember is that he was banned at the start of that thread, not the end. It was JL2, whom I'm sure everyone will be shocked to find out sounded exactly like Rob and who was widely believed to BE Rob, who was berating Math Extremist. Nothing like a tacit admission to clear up loose issues.
Thine have met thy enemy, and thou art it.