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[Bill Yung]

Which is why I hate posting here. I should have known better. Hopefully, I've learned my lesson.

Thanks, man. I would never have found that thread from 2012. Glossed over it for now.

[slingshot]

Thanks, man. I would never have found that thread from 2012. Glossed over it for now.

You're welcome. Sorry for the rant. I went over 5 years back and forth thru emails picking Rob's brain-I'm sure he wondered about my lack of understanding at times-but he kept his word about answering all questions. I read every article on his site.Those years were invaluable to me.
It wasn't until I read forums I realized those times were gone. Besides, all I miss now is the occasional why-didn't-I think-of-that play- such as holding an unsuited 10 on a razgu hand and hitting a royal. Because of that one post of a hand that may never happen again, I watch EVERY hand closely now.

[redietz]

I wouldn't be concerned what the armchair theorists claim sling. Imagine a collection of anonymous hate-slinging BSers expecting to be taken seriously. No different than red, who will obviously never identify himself and may in fact be using a stolen identity to dole out his nonsense. And these others are nothing more than big jealous losers who want nothing to do with hearing about winners. Case in point: jbjb blathers on & on about how Alan is a "loser" and always accuses anyone who posts winners of losing overall. He just can't take any of it. Yet when faced with how often I win and how much I've said I win, he will not let it compute.

And then there's Dan and his "you gotta lose if you play -EV games, and you gotta win if you play +EV". It would help if he thought his theories thru a little more, as was shown by his "50,000 hand" miscue.

And here's more education Dan: I have been ahead and consistently climbing in profit since 1997, and over 90% of the games I've played have been below 100%. (Yes, people hate it and it's been like that for years). I've had no "game-changing jackpots" as there's been just two $100k and three $50k winners along the way...and without any of them I'd still be up over a million dollars.

The key? Use win & loss goals, have the proper bankroll, use a sensible strategy that NEVER goes up in denomination and always only goes down after winning, and treat every session like it's the only one you'll ever play.

I can't picture how much of a jolt it was to the theorists to have to look at my $28,000 in jackpots from the same machine in under 3 hours on wimpy 25c thru $2 denominations--and all because of an assist from my now good buddy spock. All negative EV wins, and all it did was ADD to my profiting since 1997.

Like Alan said Dan, try again.

Who am I, Rob?

Some people call me a space cowboy, yeah,
Some call me the gangster of love.
Some people call me Maurice....

Rob, didn't you report a "life-changing" 400K jackpot awhile back. Hard to keep track. So many huge jackpots; so hard to recall them all. You "may" have mentioned it. You see, this "may" thing is handy. I don't have to research anything, or verify anything, or DO anything. I can just make stuff up. Thanks, Rob, you just made my writing a whole lot easier.

[redietz]

I am really learning about writing from Rob. The phrase " may in fact" is even more useful than just writing "may" as it throws the weight of the word "fact" in there. So sheer opining is given some stealth gravitas.

Alan, I've done a fair amount of editing in my time, but I have never picked up on this. "May in fact" is a cliche, but it's also a kind of oxymoron in that "may" and "in fact" imply two completely different statuses for information that follows.

Fascinating, as Spock (from Star Trek) would say.

[Alan Mendelson]

Redietz please do not reference me in your posts unless it is a post directly involving me. I want nothing to do with your sandbox battle.

[redietz]

Actually, it was directly involving you, as you have more pure editorial experience than anyone else on this forum. I was wondering if the oxymoronic nature of "may in fact" was something you had considered or edited out of your own presentations.

But I will rely on my own training in editorial matters going forward, Mon Capitan.

[Rob.Singer]

I lived in the UK for several years. Being among the people there was not really that enjoyable, and I'm glad I traveled almost every week. Why? Because they had pathetic food at the pubs, restaurants, and most resorts, they delivered this very odd type of dry humor when trying to explain just about anything, and they never seemed quite sure of what they were saying.

redietz is hardly a Brit (you can tell he has virtually NO travel experience under his belt, and his wit is non-existent) but he would fare really well in a place like Wales or Scotland, or especially in a city like Manchester. In nearly every post he seems to struggle mightily with trying to make an effective delivery, and indeed, almost always ends up similar to driving off the road in a disabled car. You can almost f-e-e-l the pain as he understands his communication abilities are not even on par with Tom Poston, yet he pushes on like nothing's wrong.

He is a weird bird, for sure.

[redietz]

They won't allow me a passport with my beer gut. That, and, as Rob surmised, the entire identity issue. Rob, you have any further insights on that, other than your flip-flopping "may in fact this" and "may in fact that?" It's not like you to be so wishy washy. C'mon, man, we're all friends here. Don't be shy.

P.S. Rob's rigorous training had a sad, unintended side effect. About 80% of my pants have a 34 waist, and they don't really fit any longer. Rob, how do you cope with being svelte?

[redietz]

I wanted to report that I recently ran into two different examples for Dan's tip. Travelocity tried to close my deal as I was navigating away with a 10% discount pop-up. Red Roof Inn offered a 15% discount on their site; the caveat was if you had another offer (I do) you could use just one.

So this is a very good tip.

[Rob.Singer]

I wanted to report that I recently ran into two different examples for Dan's tip. Travelocity tried to close my deal as I was navigating away with a 10% discount pop-up. Red Roof Inn offered a 15% discount on their site; the caveat was if you had another offer (I do) you could use just one.

So this is a very good tip.

If you worry so much about discounts that basically mean peanuts and stay so infatuated with a waistline that means nothing to anyone, all that does is confirm you really don't have much of anything to do with gaming, and if you do then you are not at all successful with it.

[redietz]

If you worry so much about discounts that basically mean peanuts and stay so infatuated with a waistline that means nothing to anyone, all that does is confirm you really don't have much of anything to do with gaming, and if you do then you are not at all successful with it.

That makes perfect sense, Rob. If I pass up 10 or 15% discounts and am unconcerned with my waistline, then I must be a heavy hitter and a champion in the world of gaming. Just like you, Rob, eh?

You are a logical man.

And, Rob, I didn't mention my waistline until you declared I had a beer gut, which is weird considering you've never met me. Why are you obsessed with my waistline? Who exactly do you think I am?

[redietz]

I'm being too harsh on Rob. I don't have much to do with gaming, unless you count (here we go):

2016: first place in Heritage Sports' Race to the Super Bowl season-long contest versus thousands of people. Third place in Northbet's season-long Pick the Pros Contest. Second place in Linemasters' Bowl Contest. Winning record in the Playbook-sponsored, invitation-only Wise Guys Contest.

Rob's gaming results: Self reported sporadically on this forum. Never reports losing. Very realistic.

Redietz's results: Available for thousands to see every week.

I'm just not in Rob's class.

[Bill Yung]

I'm being too harsh on Rob. I don't have much to do with gaming, unless you count (here we go):

2016: first place in Heritage Sports' Race to the Super Bowl season-long contest versus thousands of people.

Googled, "Heritage Sports' Race to the Super Bowl season-long contest". Zero results. There're a million free contests, some with $1,000 or more in prize-money. What did you win?

Just trying to understand the fascination with all the time spent following sports, or for that matter any other particular betting game. I gave that up at 18, when I realized, "Hey, what are those guys doing for me?"

My mom used to win $1,000 at a hotly contested syndicated newspaper number puzzle in the late 50's/early 60's, when it was a lot of money. But who cares. She was the wife of a farmer.

[Bill Yung]

Thanks, man. I would never have found that thread from 2012. Glossed over it for now.

Glossed over it again. Nothing of value.

[redietz]

I

Googled, "Heritage Sports' Race to the Super Bowl season-long contest". Zero results. There're a million free contests, some with $1,000 or more in prize-money. What did you win?

Just trying to understand the fascinationW with all the time spent following sports, or for that matter any other particular betting game. I gave that up at 18, when I realized, "Hey, what are those guys doing for me?"

My mom used to win $1,000 at a hotly contested syndicated newspaper number puzzle in the late 50's/early 60's, when it was a lot of money. But who cares. She was the wife of a farmer.

Won 25K in wagers in Race to the Superbowl.

These were the only contests I was in, so no, not a cherry-picked summary. I don't do that. I did not enter the Linemasters' regular season contest because I do not like the format, which is very different from the bowl contest. FYI, the woman I'm dating won LM regular season with a 49-29 ATS record.

I'm glad to see you're too mature to be interested in gaming. Or is that not what you implied?

[Bill Yung]

I'm glad to see you're too mature to be interested in gaming. Or is that not what you implied?

I think that the concept of gambling has a lot to do, in a peripheral or heuristic way, with frontier science. A way or philosophy by which ideas are conceived and cultivated as to be immune to stagnation, conflict and self-contradiction. The focused looseness or freeness of it. Sometimes the best way to think about a problem is to not think about it; sometimes the best way to discipline is to the by-product of fun. Too many of the great thinkers became trapped by their own well-studied methods. Many burnt out at a young age; or went "crackers" in old age.

Perhaps, Alan straddles the gambling philosophies of each of the Wizard, and Singer? While you content yourself with only the former's statistical approach? Nobody getting hurt by it.

Of course, gambling isn't per se another science such as gaming. But where does one become the other? Where not too smart becomes not too stupid. This is how I do my own research from the first principles of push/pull, straight/round, in/out, left/right, etc. Nothing works or makes sense until everything does. Eg, metaphysically backing up from stuff similar to n^0 and 0^n arriving at 0^0, which is 1 and not 0. Putting the different areas of math together, or determining where those come apart.

What good would a "theory of everything" be that's all over only on the end? Any truly good theory would have to speak finally of what's to come while not thus being based on all the evidence. And would have to itself go forward in its own development as outlined. Perhaps then, we've already unknowingly progressed beyond such a theory, and it's waiting to be "rediscovered". If matter and mind exist as absolutes finally removed from every other thing, then how to get to/from "there" to conceive of and align the remainder of such a theory? The approach of (infinite) approaches. One thing when the other, from the start/end at the middle. Catching a feather with your hand, and on the quantum stage. To at least discover what the mind wants us to matter.

Yes, Singer is a fool. But there is still something to learn from every fool.

[redietz]

I learned a great deal about attributes to beware of in me. In a sense, I owe Rob quite a bit.

[Rob.Singer]

And I'll bet you learned a lot from that long babble in the post before yours.....