Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
What's the biggest video poker story of all time? In my opinion it is Bob Dancer's Million Dollar Video Poker. This book chronicles the six month period in the late nineties that Bob and wife hit over 1 million dollars in video poker jackpots. It was a pretty good read. I would recommend it.

But here's a little secret. Bob lost money on the book. He payed 20K just to have the book edited. Now, some people will jump on that and call it a mistake. Sure, it was. But if the story were that big it wouldn't have been much of a mistake. Dancer was writing to a small niche market. And he was never offered any money for film rights.

Big stories in the video poker world are not as big as you think.
Book good for him, bad for us.

The book may have lost money in and of itself, but I'm sure that led to making money with his software, classes, and other various things.