Caveat Emptor should be left to the reader of the Vegas chronicles

[MDawg]

People are talking about how these Vegas chronicles should all have disclaimers attached to them that these results may not necessarily be duplicated by the reader. I think that goes without saying?

Anyway....

Dan just look at the comparison of these two threads below and you go pick on Singer's thread and call him a liar and just ignore this other thread without one word out of you so far is complete bullshit on your part.


Finding Grandpa's Newell

The Adventures of MDawg (in progress)

I am calling you out for never opining on the MDawg

Rob … has made some weak but very unconvincing attempts to keep the lie going. (The pics of him in a showroom Newell are hilarious, as is the fake for-sale ad.)

And that's why DanDruff stepped in yesterday, and once before, to opine. RS posted contradictory evidence that actually DISproved his claim of owning the Newell.

If RS had kept his mouth shut, we would have thought he was a horse, and let him through. Instead he went on about how he was "in sanitation" and made a fool of himself.


And that’s the difference between RS’ malarky, and the MDawg thread. I have presented a clear consistent story that has never contradicted itself, and clear visual and video evidence to support both the play and the wins. As well, the amounts I won were modest given my credit lines, versus RS's claim of taking in millions, and then plunking it all into a phantom RV that has never been seen.

I am not sure what the equivalent for me would be to the crapola RS has pulled…but I have never presented anything so clearly contradictory as pictures posing inside an RV for sale at a dealership and then that ridiculous faked For Sale ad with the partial images of a different RV.

Seems to be the problem I am having.



This is the problem with all of these forum owners / administrator. At the blackjack forum that I was originally banned at it was a guy claiming his super duper count could play to a 5% advantage, something impossible from blackjack card counting. The owner, a math guy knew this BUT the guy claiming was the leading poster by far bring a lot of traffic.

At WoV, I see some of the same with this MDawg character. The owner knows better, but forum traffic is involved.

And the same thing here with Rob Singer for years and now MDawg.

I get that forum owners are about traffic, but I just have a problem when they are legitimate respected gambling and math guys. When that is the case their silence and even provideing a platform for these "fantasies" does harm. Their silence is almost an endorcement.

Now his counterpoint is that he does not encourage anyone to play which is beyond his comprehension to understand just how dangerous his trip reports really are.

There is a contradiction here too. You see these forum owners say things like "no one is getting hurt", but at the same time they all (including Dan Druff) will tell you that there are many lurker visitors to their forums that don't participate. Those are the kind of people that read this crap over and over (because of the posting repetition of these nut jobs). So a forum that is supposed to be or masquerades as a legitimate gambling forum, that people come to for information, ends up promoting mis-information. That is why I feel it is not only the right, but the responsibility of legitimate AP's to call out this crap.

What about the case of KewlJ. This once young man was minding his own business when he read online about how card counting was the thing to do, and up and moved to Vegas to become a professional blackjack player. A decade or so later and he winds up LOSING and now he's sitting on his a** wondering what his next move might be. If the guy had never heard of card counting maybe by now he'd have himself a trade or career in something solid with a future, versus some occupation where the rug might be pulled out from under him at any time, with a swift kick out the casino door and a trespass warning.

Or ZenKing, who was somehow influenced by other "APs" here and ends up going postal with thoughts of shooting up the city after he fails to meet his + EV expectations.

Or "AxelAss" who keeps going on and on about how he may sit it bed all day being served breakfast by his wife and just occasionally hit the casinos to earn big AP profits.

DarkOz, who claims to make "$20,000. a week" (but only some weeks) by being the Most Feared AP on the East Coast?

PokerGrinder, talking about how he relatively recently bought bitcoin and now has (what he views as) a fortune in his backpack.

Evidently, following in the footsteps of an AP is no guarantee of success, but my point is that these AP are promoting that an entire lifestyle and living may be supported through casinos.

Compare that to MDawg, who is merely relating the results of occasional leisure trips to Vegas where he happens to win.

Which are the worse influence on the general public reader - the ones who advertise that there is a long term living to be made off casinos (without even providing any details of exactly HOW), or the guy who just relates his experiences in Vegas and leaves the reader to decide what he wants to do with that?

At best, if you have a problem with MDawg you should have a problem with all of the rest. Not everyone is cut out to be a successful gambler - and taking on the casinos whether in a +EV or -EV game is no guarantee of success. At least with a game like Baccarat no one in the casino is going to give you the boot.

Success at anything has as much to do with the player as the game.