I am disappointed in you BoSox. Some of us on these forums, you and I included are real people. Even if we have never met, we know each other and about each other (some more than others) from participating on a number of gambling forums for decades. If along the way we have shared that we lost a spouse, or in your case another member of the community made that announcement, then attacking that spouse, who didn't participate on these forums, with nasty ass lies, about suicide, and aids and god knows what else, crosses a line of human decency. It is sick. It really is a person that is not mentally well.
And just think about this person. He has lied about everything. About me. My brother (who doesn't participate here), my mother (who doesn't participate here), my partner (who didn't participate here). Same with others. He recently posted that Alan had been arrested and charged with beating his girlfriend or female friend that he was involved with. Alan denies this and there is no evidence of this. I mean there has to be a line. A line of decency.
I mean think about this guys existence of these forums. It is a 20 year trolling of the AP community and those in it. Think of the extent he went to. Recently with the Newell RV nonsense. He went to a dealership pretending to be a perspective buyer to take pictures of himself. How sick is that? He paid for a phony ad on an RV site. Before that he self published books conning about his magical progressive system. (I guess you can make a case that John Patrick and others have done this), but it doesn't excuse the behavior or make it right. He somehow convinced a supposed legit gambling publication to allow him to write a column about his phony and math defying claims. I suspect they went along because he "worked" for free to feed this alternative reality. And I think that publication has some culpability as well.
But altogether, it is a really really sick individual. Complete alternative reality stuff by a losing gambler, bitter at that fact. And with the lengths that he took it to, I too have thought maybe his family should be aware. I suspect they are aware. But when someone goes off the deep end and starts shooting people you always here from his family, "we didn't know he was this bad".
And lies about people dying of aids that didn't, suicides that weren't, people arrested for beating their girlfriends, shouldn't just be dismissed. This person is a sick, sick person. If his family really isn't aware of what he has been up to, maybe you are doing them a favor by bring it to their attention, before it gets even worse.