Jumping the Shark

[Rob.Singer]

Hence the reason your system cannot be proven, Rob. Important: Not proving it doesn't mean you didn't win the money. But not being able to prove it using simulations makes it difficult if not impossible to understand and believe in. So, you will always have the doubters and unfortunately there probably is no way to make them see it as you see it.

Frankly, how could you ever hope to convince Arc when he is so vocal about not following win goals and loss limits? It's hopeless.

Rob: change your method of operation and write a new book that's titled "I beat the casinos using a whacky system at video poker and won a million bucks." Then tell people the "whacky hands" you played (like busting three queens to hit a $100K royal) and how you change deomonimations (say you did it on a whim) and you'll be a folk hero.

Subtitle your book this way: I tried to play poker the "smart way" but I found out the "dumb way" worked better for me.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

I know I can't really prove out the strategy on paper and "convince" the critics, because it is "proof" based upon a single session of play, with that individual event occurring several hundred times. When you simulate one session only, then you do it over and over again, you find it wins over 80% of the time with a very nice overall profit. It's influence free, meaning any reasonable pay table ER is virtually irrelevant, and what happened previously is meaningless. No long-term theorist would ever be able to get onboard, just as they deny the social, health, and financial problems that run rampant among AP's. And naturally, there's no proof like actually playing it--which no critic wants to do--or witnessing me playing it, but whenever a challenge was put forth they all ran for the hills.

I've always wanted to write the final book in the Undeniable Truth trilogy, and perhaps I will. As the days go by, it becomes increasingly clear that, based on the good life I have in retirement vs. the self-caused misery of many of my biggest critics, I did indeed find a far better way to approach vp play as well as being able to control my life as a gambler. Clearly explaining how I was successful with an unpopular strategy while opening it up in its entirety would be a best seller....and a must-read in the Shirley Dancer household.