Rob worte:
"Asking how many sessions it took to "recoup" a big loss is irrelevant. Why? These scenarios could have resulted: I could have already been further than $35000 ahead for the year prior to the loss; I could have been less than $35000 ahead for the year prior to the loss; I could have been already behind for the year prior to the loss; or, in conjunction with this, that loss could have wiped out my entire gaming bankroll, meaning I would have quit playing professsionally for good and had instantly become the regular-Joe recreational player I am today...fully knowing we'd be taking from our 401k's to live this retirement lifestyle instead of it being paid for mainly from casino profits. In any case, I was prepared for EVERY case, because that's what strategy discipline is all about. Preparation, Preparation, Preparation....driven solely by discipline."
Sorry, Rob, but there is absolutely no discipline shown when you:
a. give back a year's profit, or much of a year's profit in one session;
b. or, be willing to let your entire gaming bankroll to get wiped out.
We have different values and definitions. I suggest that you not criticize others for how they play when you can come on a public forum and say that a $35,000 session loss means nothing to you. It's just like Bob Dancer saying he won a car that cost him so many thousands and thousands of dollars of video poker losses.
In the future, I would suggest you just stick with your report of winning a million dollars over ten years. That is more believable than saying you sat there willingly losing five figures per session. If you stuck with this, that you had cumulative small wins of $2500 per session at the $10/coin game, it is not only realistic but more easy to swallow.
And since you did respond to what I wrote, let me ask you one more question. This is a question only, and I am not criticizing you in any way. But I have to know:
In Special Play #13 when you broke up three queens to hold three to the royal, and you got the royal on a $25 machine winning $100K, how much were you behind? For others who are not familiar, you said you almost always hold three queens on 8/5 Bonus but in this case you were in such a deep hole you had to try for the royal in order to save yourself. How big was the hole at that time? (See the video here:
http://alanbestbuys.com/id194.html )