Re: several comments axel posted.

I don't know much about the publishing business. GBC didn't either. They took on my book and off we went. I have no idea how many copies have been sold and I never cared. I think they printed too many--don't really know. I had an understanding with them that I wouldn't receive royalties money for 5 years, when it would be a 1-time lump sum. For the same reason I turned down payment for my GT article--even though it became the publication's most popular column ever and was the main driver behind their success for nearly 8 years--I wasn't concerned with getting money from my book: I was gambling up to $57,200 on near-weekly trips to Nevada for 4 years and then up to $5k/trip during my DU years. I simply wanted to get my point of view out to the playing public, and I didn't need that kind of money.

Axel, I'm the opposite of a pack rat. I don't keep texts 10 seconds past when I read them, and I don't keep tax returns and related financials past their required retention dates. And the fact that I was a vp writer wasn't a force in my not being concerned about future proof of the play. It was a cash cow, totally under only my control until I was either stopped by the law or the availability of the machines, or until illness came. In those situations, you do not get concerned with what other people might think or say more than a decade later. And even if I had been dumb enuf to take pictures or videos while playing under the lights, as you can clearly see, people who just don't want to believe things will concoct any and all reasons and theories as to why the info shouldn't be believed. I'm simply not the type of person who cares about that stuff, mainly because I've been thru and seen so much more than anything I've experienced in gambling, throughout my entire adult life.

As usual, kew continues to lie and make things up. Poor thing.

I might have time to look here once or twice a day, so I hardly read everything. It's nice to see all this interest and discussion about my vp achievements. The fact that they reside in perpetuity within your minds leads me to believe you're all not nearly as disbelieving as you wish to be seen as.