Through the years I have been pretty hard on Eliot. I used the label "traitor" often. That came about for me because I heard from what has always been a very reliable source, an AP acquaintance, that when Eliot went to the dark side, he provided names and information on a number of top AP's that he knew or was acquaintances of. Eliot denies this occurred and really, looking objectively, I see no evidence that it did. I have not seen one single AP that knew or was acquaintances of Eliots claim they had any trouble as far as backoffs that could be attributed to that. I have to assume that if the accusations against Eliot were true a number of top AP's would have all of the sudden been unable to play. So I have no choice but to dismiss that accusation as hyperbole because one from "our" side went over to the dark side.

Now post Eliot's AP career, things got weird. As the article alludes to, he sort of worked both sides, publishing his book that taught AP's how to beat some of the games, but then went running to the casinos to do private, casino personnel only seminars of how to stop AP's and protect the games against those very AP's that his book helped teach to beat the games. And it looks like that may continue today even in his "retirement" as the article mentions a recent casino seminar this past spring.