Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
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.
Bob has always said he filed taxes as a professional gambler. In order to do that then the majority of his income had to have been from gambling, not from selling products. I personally don't think there is that much money in it. Frank Kneeland told me he didn't make any money on his book either.

I was curious about book sales so asked questions of both Dancer and Kneeland who were both pushing me to write a book to be published by the publisher for Las Vegas Adviser (can't remember the name). But after collecting some information, as Coach would put it, I said to hell with that. I'm not wasting all that time and energy for nothing. I've given a lot of the information away in the forums.