Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
if I were paid a simple one-time fee of $25,000 up front.
Why don’t you just make it…
< insert dramatic music here >
$ Fifty Billion Dollars $
< place pinky in corner of mouth >
< laugh manically >
Either amount is equally unlikely to ever be accepted. Why would anyone pay you a dime so you can prove your own claims are true? Answer; they won’t, a fact of which you are certainly well aware. This "offer" appears to be just another evasion of accountability which will be used by you in the future as “proof” that you were willing to document everything yet nobody “was brave enough” to take you up on the offer.
How about this instead: you meet Alan at some of the casino’s where you’ve claimed large wins recently and get copies of the W2-G’s. That would certainly go a long way towards verifying at least some of your wins.
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
I have also, since retiring from playing my strategies very strictly, won around $40,000 in vp and another $40k from sports betting.
Fascinating. To come up with that amount you must have had some major losing streaks you failed to mention here, unlike your wins. At the end of December 2012, you posted:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
And since I was ahead in the low five figures since retiring from professional play AND I just won another $32k, I await the AP words of wisdom that will tell me how--and maybe when would be nice--the math is gonna take it all back, and more!
What does “ahead in the low 5 figures” mean” $12,000? $20,000? Since I don’t know, and in the end it really doesn't make a difference anyway, I’ll pick a number and say that you were somewhere around $50,000 up at that point, (32k + 18k = 50 K. This is interesting because since you started posting here in mid 2011 you reported wins that would total somewhere around $30,000 prior to December of last year and had previously reported a $20,000 profit in 2010, which by themselves would make a balance of 50K. If your overall win balance was at 50K in late December, which included the 32k you had just won then you must have lost a almost 3/4 of what you had gained in the previous 2 years.
After that you had your “streak” which netted an additional $14,800 by your own accounting, which should put you up somewhere around $65,000, (low 5 figures + 32k + 14,800K = around 60-65k). Yet now you are now reporting being ahead 40K.
That would seem to be a significant amount of losses for someone who both scoffs at the probability they might lose it again as you did a number of times in late December and also scolds others for doing the same thing.
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
I mean, who DOESN'T enjoy picking on a know-it-all geeky weakling working on his final leg of life?
Anyone who has successfully passed from adolescence into adulthood? People who don’t go through life trying to bully everyone around them? Most of us continued to grow after the teen years and realized that while you can disagree with others as adults you rely on the strength of your arguments, not asinine name calling to bring your points home.
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
And the very successful chipping away process I've tortured him with has reaped dividend after dividend!
If by "chipping away" you are referring to your own credibility as you continue to repeat the same lame and unsubstantiated claims you've been making for years then "mission accomplished". Despite repeated requests, you’ve never been able to document a single claim you’ve made in this regard leaving the only logical conclusion to be that it has been mostly or entirely fabricated.
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
Photos of wins that I've posted are genuine and are mine
Do they also reflect the true history of how they were presented? I ask because there are numerous irregularities in the files names that suggest they do not. A chart of the images as you posted them looks like this:
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1/20 $5 quad aces IMG951664.jpg
@2/22 $.25 RF IMG958769.jpg
2/25 $2 3's w/k IMG_8235.jpg
2/27 $10 quad jacks IMG951512.jpg
2/28 $10 quad aces IMG957927.jpg
3/1 $2 2's w/k IMG_6408.jpg
3/2 $1 quad aces IMG_3868.jpg
3/2 $1 quad aces IMG958952.jpg
Naming conventions for digital media establish that cameras output the raw data in sequential order with a format of 4 alphanumeric characters followed by a number; wikipedia - Design Rule for Camera Systems.
You have two different formats, suggesting 2 different devices were used. That in itself isn’t too unusual except for the final two images which were taken during a 3 hour period yet have different formats which would seem to be somewhat unlikely. There are large gaps in the numbers, which suggest a large number of images were taken between the posted ones which would be quite unusual given the short period of time involved.
The file names are also not sequential, and in fact one series is in reverse order. It is difficult to envision a scenario where within the space of a week file image names could become so jumbled.
All of the irregularities noted above are part of the reason that a large contingent of video poker players question the authenticity of your claims, and if that bothers you the onus is on you to produce the evidence, not them.