I don't understand Wizard

[kewlJ]

. Is there any regular known member on these forums you haven't had a major problem with? Do you participate on any forum without creating a bunch of drama? Can you even go a week without creating/participating in some type of drama? You need to stop and ask yourself what the common denominator is?

I have been thinking about these comments by Axelwolf and want to address them because it does seem like I am involved with a great deal of drama on these message boards. But it really is 4 incidents that have had spilled over to other forums. It stems from 4 members of forums that I have called out as frauds. There are a lot more people that I think aren't telling the truth or exaggerating their claims, that I say nothing, but these 4 were doing so for the express purpose of misleading other players, hurting players so they would lose their money chasing these bogus claims. In a couple cases it had to do with the frauds trying to make money directly off players. I think AP's, myself included have every right, even a responsibility to expose such "people".

So the first was a member of the blackjack community named Tthree (T3). I am not going to rehash all his impossible claims, but I was eventually proven right, by blackjack expert Don Schlesinger who completely exposed T3 as a fraud. But not before I was banned from BJTF and spill over at WoV and remain banned even thought proven right in the situation that lead to it all.

Second was a blackjack player named "Flash" who later went by Zenmaster Flash. Flash was a knowledgeable blackjack player. But he exaggerated his status. He claimed to be a professional player for over 20 years, when the fact is that Flash was a psychologist/professor teaching at some college and lifelong degenerate gambler. WE know this because he honestly shared his exploits with horseracing, craps roulette, and losing blackjack play. So at some point Flash found blackjack card counting and began playing at least blackjack at an advantage.

In his 50's upon retiring early from his professional occupation already described, Flash played blackjack for 20 years. During those 20 years Flash's wife remained employed, and he had significant retirement income. He in no way was living off his blackjack play as the term "professional blackjack player" implies. I don't know why that bothered me, but it did. If he had said he was retired and supplementing his retirement with blackjack play I would have been fine with it. Anyway eventually Flash revealed he averaged 32k per year playing blackjack, which proved this was a supplemental thing not full-time professional play.

#4 (holding #3 until last) was Moses, which started on other forums has spilled to many forums including this one. He claimed to be a professional blackjack player and professional sportsbetter in Reno for 30 years. Moses was one of those people that while he has extensive blackjack knowledge and interests, I immediately knew his claims were BS, but he wasn't really hurting anyone too much so I let it go for a long while. But eventually he escalated, and started attacking me with lies (I have no idea why), so I called him out. I knew Moses was full of BS blackjack wise because a player can NOT play Reno regularly betting the levels he claims. When he started with all the jibberish about his "friends" and all his stories in the sportsbooks I figured he was one of those retired or semi-retired guys that hang around in groups in the sportsbooks betting horse and sports and in Moses case he occasionally played low limit Blackjack (which is all you can play on a regular basis in Reno)

His attacks lead to police involvement where I was able to learn too much information about this person. It turns out Moses is indeed one of those "retired guys", supplemented by a government check hanging out in the sportsbook and just this week he talked about the one person in the blackjack community that met him and watched him play and guess what....He was playing $5 red chip. oh he had a reason for that of course. So I have been proven right on all 3 of these cases that I called out. And despite that Moses continues to attack me from the funny farm, I am going to try to let this go now, as long as he doesn't escalate and follow through on his physical threats.

#3 and the only one not related to blackjack was RoB Singer. No need for me to recap here. Even though I only played VP on a very small scale, supplementing my main income from blackjack play, Rob's claims bothered me greatly in that they were impossible mathematically. I am talking about the Singer progressive wagering system, not the double up bug claim. This Singer system continues to go against the mathematics and he continues to insist on this claim, even after his latest double up bug claims.

Now I don't suppose I am going to get the satisfaction of being proven right on this one because Rob is going to go to his grave insisting he has been able to defy the odds and math and win long-term playing a -EV game, using progressive wagering and "special plays" (<- ) which simply can not be done. But I don't need that satisfaction. I am comfortable knowing Rob's claim in this regard is impossible and most everyone recognizes that. Seems like even his most devoted follower, slingshot even realizes this now. (sorry slingshot)

So these were the 4 long running cases of me calling people out. And it has make me unlikeable to some and given me the reputation of always fighting with someone. I take responsibility for some of that, but I make no apologies as I firmly believe real advantage players have a right, even a responsibility to call out players intentionally misleading other players.