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[mickeycrimm]

Take a few seconds to think about it, and the answer presents itself. When people do this stuff (as Stanford Wong did with teaser ranges most professionals knew about, but the public did not), it's for a variation of one of the following reasons:

1) They get more value out of the exposing of the play than not exposing it. That value can be non-material value, such as reputation, vanity, more views, or it can be directly material as in garnering side contracts with casinos as a consultant.

2) They treat the entire AP game as some competition they want to "win." If they aren't exploiting a play and other people are, they expose it.

3) They lack the funding to directly exploit various plays, although they are aware of them. A combination of reputation-seeking, vanity, and treating other APs as competition leads them to expose the plays.

4) They may have funding, but they lack the psychological makeup, discipline, and possibly physical abilities to handle certain plays effectively. Or overall they are actually failed APs because they have the Fred Flintstone degenerate gambling thing going on. So they act as if they are APs in a sense, but they know they really are not, and they expose the plays.


I mean, really, do you see Michael Shackleford as an effective AP doing almost anything? That Burning Man style of persona is usually going to get you squashed in the long run. If you don't have some streetwise sixth sense, you're going to go down no matter your math skills.

When I explained to Shack that one needs a contingency plan, per the small chance, for defending oneself when out in the middle of nowhere with no witnesses....he took riding a freight train off his bucket list.

This is actually pretty funny. If somebody asked about my contingency, I'd flip open my jacket and ask, "Pepper spray, taser, shuriken or switchblade?" (Note: I own guns, but not handguns).

Back in my youth, I occasionally wore a shuriken as a belt buckle. But you really don't want to trip and fall and get an unnecessary circumcision.

You are showing your ignorance. Rail riders get jacked up by the cops all the time. You don't want to get caught with a gun or knife. A ball peen hammer works pretty good for close combat....and the cops have a hard time construing it as a weapon.