Boz, what this comes down to is Rob is a failed AP. That is the one thing he has been honest about. As a degenerate gambler, he wanted to be an advantage player, winning money from the casinos. And he tried for 6 years was it? But he couldn't do it, my guess because he couldn't divorce himself from those degenerate gambling behaviors. And he became very bitter towards people like Dancer, and subsequently all AP's, so he started making up these bullshit stories.
The stories didn't make sense, defied math and thus frequently changed as he tried to explain them. Real advantage players have a right to call out these stories as bullshit. For the most part advantage play, no matter what you are doing is a grind. Fairly small advantage. And anyone who choses to engage in this lifestyle works hard for not that much money. Almost everyone (I am probably the exception) could make much more money doing something else. We have a right, I think even a responsibility, to call out these fantasy made up stories and claims. And I wont apologize for doing that. If you think that makes me less credible, so be it. That is your choice.
Now Mickey is an AP. A great AP, with amazing mathematical abilities that I am in awe of. He knows the math. And he knows 99% of Rob's claims defied the math. And Mickey rightfully called Rob out on that for decades.
This double up bug claim is the first claim that doesn't defy the math. And for good reason. Rob stole someone else's real claim that he read about. Rob's claims have been escalating for years. Constantly changing and escalating. His original Singer system started out just under a million dollars over 10 years and grew to just about 1.5 million over 10 years. Go back and look! Even the RV started out being about a Million dollars and then grew to 1.5 million.
These claims changed and grew over time. Always growing grander. More fantastic. And when people believing or entertaining his claims grew to an all time low, Rob shifted and came up with an entirely new claim that he stole from the news stories. That is all this is. Like I said, Rob thinks he is a fiction writer and this is all a work of fiction. And "Rob Singer" is the James Bond like fictional character.