Look kew, when are you going to acknowledge what I've been saying about my successful play strategy and get off your fake news story that it was "phony" and I "mislead" anyone about the merits of playing it, just because I played it for 4 years profitably instead of 10? And I still train players on it. There is no charade when it comes to my strategy.
You're confusing the SPS success with the way I chose to go forward after finding and playing something much better. My weekly Undeniable Truth column in Gaming Today was in its popular prime when this discovery was made, and since my strategy was successful I chose to keep that storyline going rather than quit writing, or making the world's most stupid decision and ignore the other far more profitable play. No one was deceived to the point of being harmed in any way. And, both my books were written and published during those first 4 years of playing professionally.
As far as the nastiness etc., I came into this arena in 2000 fully expecting and prepared to be attacked both personally and professionally for my position on APing (at the time, after 6 years of failure) as well as my new approach to playing. Just like clockwork, it occurred, and it continued in every conceivable form of media. But what these people weren't aware of is they were going up against the best preparation in the business when it comes to insults and retaliatory personal attacks.
Yet, that is really not me....I am completely the opposite in my real life. Think about it: I've been married over 40 years. I've never had trouble with the law or been arrested. I have great children and grandchildren. Our son is a true Wounded Warrior. And I've held very responsible positions in my work career. It should be obvious that my online personality is far from the real me.
That said, because this very lucrative play required complete silence and discipline in order to remain active for as long as it did, any human being would be hard pressed not to allow all that bottled up anxiety about not being able to talk to anyone about it, to let off all that steam in some other way. My way has been to battle people about basically anything online. I've developed quite the talent for it, right?
I know people despise me for this and that, and they're always looking me up just to find flaws to rip me for because of it. Well, some people aren't going to like this, but because I was winning so much from the casinos along with our healthy retirement accounts which have only grown thanks to the great Donald Trump and credit was no longer necessary, I purposely wrecked our credit by stiffing certain creditors at strategic intervals. Everything I've done had a reason. Buying homes for cash in our children's names was done for a purpose. (unrelated, our 1996 bankruptcy was real and it was profitable also). But there were never any of those evictions, food stamps, welfare fraud, or anything of the sort. And know this: we are not wealthy, just comfortable retirees who've both worked hard our entire lives. I got lucky with video poker, but it took a lot of work. I didn't really stumble across this play. I worked hard at looking for something like this for four years.
After this post I won't be talking about any of this stuff anymore, regardless what's said. My reason for waiting until 2019 to finally get this silence and reasons for my decades-long forums' disruptions and mis-directions act off my chest, are sooo valid, and it is a very big personal relief. mickey understood that today. In fact, I'm glad I got to talk to him and we'll probably chat more in the future. I do regret his being a regular target of my performance but I don't apologize for it. He would think I'm a wimp if I did.
There will be no more comments from me on any of this. It's likely the entire story of the play will come out somewhere somehow sometime. Just remember who I really am and why I've done what I did when it's discussed. There'll still be the haters here and there who'll claim all sorts of stuff. So be it.
Look kew, when are you going to acknowledge what I've been saying about my successful play strategy and get off your fake news story that it was "phony" and I "mislead" anyone about the merits of playing it, just because I played it for 4 years profitably instead of 10? And I still train players on it. There is no charade when it comes to my strategy.
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