This was long before people were taking photos of things and posting them anywhere... It must have been 2006 or 2007...
He got a promotional CD-Rom in the mail for an online casino... The name I couldn't tell you... The CD included a welcome offer of 7x7x7 of free-play 7x7x7 = $343... He installed the CD and played, was playing Video Poker with his favorite game "Super Aces Bonus" where any 4-Aces paid 2000 credits (no kicker needed). He was playing on dollars to start and poof, hit 4-Aces for $2000...
So now he has $2000+ on the site... He called them to see if he could cash out, and the person said he needed to play through $XX,XXX before he could cash out... He said that would never happen so just proceeded to play... he switched to $5 denom and he played and played and played... He proceeded to hit multiple 4-Aces for $10,000 and even a royal for $20,000! He ended up cashing out $47,000... We were not sure he would actually get the money but sure enough, a few days later it hit his account!
The next day he got a call from the online casino executive to congratulate him on his run and asked about doing an interview with him. He agreed, it was published online I couldn't tell you the name of the casino and the photo is too blurry to make it out... He proceeded to tell the story about how he called and the person said he would need to play through $XX,XXX before he could cash out, and the casino exec said "you were informed the amount in error it was actually much less" or something along those lines...
This was one of the few and only times he played any online casino game and it certainly paid out!
Some old Royal Flush photos of Alan.
His favorite news reporting photo.
Wearing a mask in 2008. I believe this was before his transplant.
The video I was looking for:
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